Welcome to Soundscape

Hello fellow travelers of the sonic realm! I am to be your DJ for what I hope is a fine excursion into the soundscapes of music. I have been an explorer of the aural realm for pretty much my entire life. That journey started with stealing 45s from my parents and over playing "The Red Baron" and the backwards masked version of Napoleon IVs "They're coming to take me away Ha-Ha" incessantly (I can pretty much quote the entire thing backwards). Since that time I have done my high school stint in the caverns of classic rock, spent my college years as a dj of bluegrass and folk, and followed the Grateful Dead around when I could. I got my masters degree in in psychology with an emphasis on music and Buddhist psychology, joined the retail work force as the music manager of a big chain store, and now I look forward to creating my own music store in the near future. Through all this music has been my rosetta stone and my guiding light. Now that I am joining this fine team of progressive fanatics I hope to offer a journey into sound. I hope to turn you the listener on to something new, and I hope to hear from others what they are listening to. I tend to define progressive music very openly. You will of course hear old favorites such as Genesis and Yes, as well as the new masters of Prog: Spocks Beard, Porcupine Tree, and Marillion, but you will also hear forays into the jam band world and an eclectic mix of other music genres. I am always searching for the newest sounds, that which breaks new ground, or stomps on old ground with new patterns. During one part of my show I will hip you to the newest music in my world, that which I believe deserves some credit. On the second part of our adventures I will try to follow a theme within the music. Some recent examples are songs about robots, travel, and dreaming. Sometimes I will simply showcase the work of an artist that I feel deserves some attention. In the past I have given some time to the music of Steve Hillage and John Wetton. Through it all I look to my listeners to help me define where we are going and what we will see, but I promise we will have sonic adventures and discover why we all love music so much in the first place.

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Recent Podcasts

Episode details:

Hello Boys & Goils,

This episode of Soundscape allows us to explore the music of 2 fantastic bands, Longshanks and Tinyfish. Longshanks has recenly emerged out of a 13 year slumber and is working on new material to be released in 2009. You will hear the 1st completed track from the upcoming "Return of Longshanks" album, as well as some remastered tracks from days gone by. We also had Andre in the chatroom to answer questions about the upcoming release and history of the band. On the Tinyfish side of things, we play almost the entirety of the Tinyfish debut album. Members of Tinyfish were in chat, but only commented about Simon and his pants fetish. We also get to hear an epic track from the recent release by Abel Ganz "Shooting Albatross". Finally, our theme for the week was to put music together that was oriented towards the body. Despite efforts by chatters, we left out many internal organs.

Next week we will explore music inspired by George Orwell, particularly in relation to Animal Farm and 1984. We will also here new music from Oxygene8, Todd Grubbs, Relayer, Ville Juvonen, and finally Magenta. There has been so much new music that it has been difficult to catch up. My thanks to those who are waiting for these items to get some airplay. To the rest of you, I promise it was worth the wait.

• Styx- Grand Illusion

Longshanks www.longshanks.nl

• Prelude
• Courante
• Tango
• Cycles & Circles
• Into the Dawn
• The Traveling Song Pt 2
• The Web of Life

Tinyfish: www.tinyfish.org

• Motorville
• Fly Like a Bird
• All of the People, All of the Time
• Build Your Own Enemy
• Sundried
• Too High for Low Company
• All Hands Lost
• Hand in Hand
• Tinyfish
• God Eat God

Body of Music

• Rush- The Body Electric
• Queensryche- Almost Cut My Hair
• Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains- Buckethead
• Phideaux- Candybrain
• The Alan Parsons Project- Snake Eyes
• Michael Lee Firkins- Took the Word Right Outta My Mouth
• Porcupine Tree- The Moon Touches Your Shoulder
• Porcupine Tree- Glass Arm Shattering
• Niacin- Elbow Grease
• Chris Squire- Hold Out Your Hand
• Chris Squire- You by my Side
• Camel- Fingertips
• Marillion- Splintering Heart
• Jethro Tull- Aqualung
• Frank Zappa- The Sheik Yerbouti Tango
• Roger Waters & Ron Geesin- More than 7 Dwarves in Penisland
• Queen- Death on Two Legs
• Random Touch- Naked Feet in the Dark
• Elvis Costello- Put Your Big Toe in the Milk of Human Kindness

Abel Ganz: www.abelganz.com- So Far

Styx- The Grand Finale

Episode details:

Show 109 finds us finishing up prog history for 1970. I am sure that I missed a few bands along the way, but we managed to hit most of the major ones. With 1971 on the horizon, I forsee that it will take most of summer to get through it all, but the bands and albums that are coming in the next episode are all fantastic. As we end 1970 you will find that there seems to be a lot of focus on jazz fusion. It is a growing entity in the prog world at this time and here we see it being worked with in the context of Zappa, Van Der Graaf, King Crimson, and the entry of John McLaughlin. Due to source material, our second set has some gapping, but I still felt it important to expose those bands for the sake of catching some missed threads.

Next week, we will be listening to music by the band Longshanks, and if all goes well we will have Longshanks, and Tinyfish in the chat room to talk about their albums. The theme will be "A body made of music". Please join us for another thrilling episode of Soundscape here on The Dividing Line.

Opening Set:

• Grateful Dead- Uncle John's Band
• Santana- Singing Winds, Crying Beasts
• The Allman Brothers Band- Whipping Post
• David Bowie- Black Country Rock

• Frank Zappa- Peaches En Regalia
• Frank Zappa- Son of Mr Green Genes
• Frank Zappa- Little Umbrellas
• Frank Zappa- It Must Be A Camel

• Tony Williams Lifetime- Spectrum
• Miles Davis- John McLaughlin
• Funkadelic- Mommy What's a Funkadelic
• Kevin Ayers- Colores Para Dolores
• Barclay James Harvest- Dark Now My Sky

• Rare Bird- Sympathy
• Rare Bird- What You Want To Know
• Rare Bird- Hammerhead
• Rare Bird- Flight
• Marillion- Sympathy

• Van Der Graaf Generator- Killer
• Van Der Graaf Generator- The Emperor on his Throne
• Van Der Graaf Generator- Pioneers over C.

• King Crimson- Cirkus
• King Crimson- Indoor Games
• King Crimson- Lady of the Dancing Water
• King Crimson- Lizard

• Grateful Dead- Brokedown Palace

Episode details:

House keeping, spring cleaning, call it what you will. All of the most recent shows have been geared towards central themes, but that leaves little time to explore the newest sounds coming my way. Therefore we took the theming off this week in order to simply present some fantastic new progressive artists that you may want to pay attention to. We also had a small tribute to Gary Gygax, and a Jam Session (for those who are fans of the jamband circuit).

Next week we return to 1970 one last time as we round out our 1970 prog rock history lessons. We will also step back and catch some important bands that we missed. You can also expect the usual smattering of new prog, and blather from your Soundscape DJ. If you are lucky, I may even read you some of my poetry!

Opening Set:

• Electric Light Orchestra- Mission (A World Record)
• GPS- Written on the Wind
• Ghost Circus- Holding On
• Ghost Circus- To Be (Happy Birthday Ron)
• Timothy Pure- Magdalena Hell

Blue Man Group www.blueman.com

• Above
• Drumbone
• Altering Appearances
• Persona
• One of These Days

Silhouette www.silhouetteband.nl

• Ocean of Life
• Seize the Night
• Long Distance Love
• Searching for Her

Sunchild http://www.mindawn.com/albums/4439?PHPSESSID=bf03a

• Love Will Shine Like Gold
• Wonderworld

Marvin Ayres www.marvinayres.com www.myspace.com/marvinayres

• Androgynous Weave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DDLeb1fn90
• Soured Alchemy
• Tail Piece
• Do You Hear Me Know?

Curved Air http://www.curvedair.com/

• Phantasmagoria
• Over and Above
• Vivaldi

Marvin Ayres- Forever is Now

Jam Session

• Michael Franti & Spearhead- Everyone Deserves Music
• Bob Weir & Ratdog- Feel Like a Stranger
• Widespread Panic- All Time Low
• Gary Louris- I Wanna Get High

Tribute to Gary Gygax 6/27/38- 03/04/08

• Azureth- Wake the Dragon
• Tiles- Dragons, Dreams, & Daring Deeds
• Traffic- Hidden Treasure

Asia http://www.originalasia.com/

• Sleeping Giant/No Way Back/Reprise
• Alibis
• Parallel Worlds/Vortex/Deya

John Wetton- A New Day

Requests, comments, ideas? Send them to woody@thedividingline.com

Episode details:

This is our first episode of "Escape Velocity" in which we explore the world through prog rock. This first episode is all about Finnish prog rock. While I am sure that I did not hit all of the major Finnish prog groups, there is over 3 hours of Finnish progressive music to enlighten your ears. This was a very educational show for me as I knew very little about Finland prior. Now I find I want to book a trip to Finland. You can send feedback to me here woody@thedividingline.com

Our next Escape Velocity episode will be on Italy sometime in May. Next week we will be doing some clean up as I have a plethora of piling prog that awaits your eager ears.

Opening Set:

• For Absent Friends- Hello World
• The Tangent- Crisis in Midlife
• RPWL- Stranger
• Rubber Universe- We Insist
• Fish- Openwater

Escape Velocity to Finland

• Michael Palin Intro
• Orlando Philharmonic- Maame (Finnish National Anthem)
• Wigwam- Bless Your Lucky Stars
• Wigwam- Pedagogue
• Tasavallan Presidentte- Lounge
• Jukka Tolonen- Elements
• Jukka Tolonen- Mountains
• Alamaailman Vasarat- Kyyhylly
• Pekka Pohjola- Matemaatikon Lentonaytos
• Finnforest- Elvin

Velvet Desperados www.velvetdesperados.net

• Reggae on the Moon
• Northern Lights
• Gentlemen of Fortune

Circusfolk www.circusfolk.net

• The Fool
• Where in the Outside In
• Rhubarbed Wire

The Project www.ppry.org - Severance is Futile

Jeavestone www.jeavestone.com

• Knights of the Bottomline
• Snowfall
• Extended Massive Orgasm

UFO incident in Nivala Finland

Hidria Spacefolk- Marastronaut

Overhead www.overhead-band.com

• A method...
• ...to the Madness
• Butterfly's Cry

Apocolyptica- Toreador

HIM- Wicked Game

Mattson www.larsericmattson.com

• Prelude to Life
• I'm Coming Home
• This is our Time

Stratovarius- The Land of Ice & Snow

For more Finnish Prog:

http://www.progarchives.com/Bands-country.asp?country=70

Episode details:

For my money, this is another one of my favorite themes I have done. Learning about the life of Arthur C Clarke was inspirational to me, as well as getting to know some of his greatest works and the legacy he left behind. We also get to listen to new music from Farpoint, and Birds & Buildings, as well as Abarax.

Next week we will take our first trip through "Escape Velocity" a new section of the show in which we explore the music of a chosen country or geographical area. This time around our journey will take us to Finland where we will encounter a world of progressive musics and amazing bands.

Also, for those who play along in the "Book Club" portion of the show, our next readings will be from George Orwell. Yet another master of literature that has inspired many great progressive works.

Opening Set:

• Zager & Evans- In the Year 2525
• Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, & Howe- Wakemans Solo Suite
• Darwin's Radio- Erase...Rewind
• Tinyfish- Nine Months on Fire

Abarax: www.abarax.de

• Crying of the Whales Part 1
• Point of No Return
• Crying of the Whales Part 2

IQ- Sacred Sound

Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008):

2001

• Richard Strauss- Also Sprach Zarathustra
• Mike Oldfield- Sentinel
• Hal9000
• David Bowie- Space Oddity
• Arthur C Clarke commenting on 50 years of Space Travel
• Peter Schilling- Major Tom

Childhood's End

• Roger Waters- Perfect Sense (Parts 1 and 2)
• Delenn speaks about the first ones
• Van Der Graaf Generator- Childlike Faith in Childhoods End
• Genesis- Watcher of the Skies
• David Bowie- Oh! You Pretty Things
• Citizen Gkar comments on the First Ones
• Zebra- Who's Behind the Door
• David Bowie- Starman
• The John Young Band- Childhood's End
• Pink Floyd- Childhood's End
• Marillion- Childhood's End
• Marillion- White Feather

Songs of Distant Earth

• Mike Oldfield- First Landing
• Mike Oldfield- Hibernaculum
• Mike Oldfield- Ascension
• Arthur C Clarke- The Navaho & Nasa
• Arthur C Clarke's 3 wishes

Phish- 2001

Farpoint: www.farpointband.com

• Prologue: Call to Arms
• Solar Wind
• Darkness
• Blue Shift (Home)

Bird & Buildings: www.myspace.com/birdsandbuildings

• Birds Flying into Buildings
• Terra Fire
• Tunguska

Delenn- Starstuff

Godfrey Townsend- Whitefeather