Retune the Sky Show #56 - The Ultimate Retuning, Part I

Posted Tuesday May 6th, 2008
Show replay Monday May 12th (and May 19th) at 12 noon PDT

This show (and the next one) will be subdivided into some categories that I've wanted to explore lately. I consciously picked music that I've enjoyed over the years - or days - whether progressive rock or not. The thread that seems to tie most of the works presented here together is a sense of experimentalism, which is strong in the ProjeKct One piece for example, but also there even in the cover tunes. Plus, all the way through the show there is a real sense of yearning, either there in the music or evoked by the music. I'm really pushing the 15% boundary this time! Progressive country, anyone?

Retune the Sky Intro (1:16)
Jordan Rudess - Just the Same (8:22)

~~ Yearning for Harmony ~~
Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace (9:41)
Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin - 8 Miles High (4:43)
Porcupine Tree - Drown With Me (5:21)
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - From the Beginning (4:18)
Glass Hammer - The Last Ship (2:42)

~~ Just Plain Yearnin' ~~
Genesis - Unquiet Slumber for the Sleepers (2:23)
Genesis - ...In That Quiet Earth (4:49)
Genesis - Afterglow (4:13)

~~ South Side of the Sky ~~
Emmylou Harris - Deeper Well (7:16)
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Vix 9 (4:27)
Edgar Meyer - Catch and Release (6:54)

Arvo Pärt - Fratres (Gil Shaham, violin) (9:54)
Sean Malone as Gordian Knot - Grace (live) (8:27)
Fractal - Friptomoogosity (live) (5:10)
ProjeKct One - 4 ii 4 (live) (7:58)

Porcupine Tree - What Happens Now? (8:23)