Posted: July 2nd, 2007 Show Replay July 9th at 12 noon PDT
A jazzier show than I've played in a bit, the first hour or so at least. I've grouped or paired up tunes in sets that have some similarity, mostly in style or instrumentation, including some new music by Frogg Cafe. The second half of the show is the longest slab of Progressive Epicness I've ever come across - Galleon's opus "The Ocean".
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) King Crimson - The Great Deceiver (4:02)
Frogg Cafe - Space Dust (8:39) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting of the Spirits (6:53) Miriodor - The Inevitable (5:24)
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Cobalt Canyons (7:29) Frogg Cafe - Gagutz (11:18) Bill Bruford's Earthworks - My Heart Declares a Holiday (4:40)
Porcupine Tree - Gravity Eyelids (7:56) Gazpacho - Upside Down (9:41)
Posted: July 23rd, 2007 for download/stream anytime Show replay at 12 noon PDT July 30th and August 6th
It's a (dissolved) Warsaw Pact progressive (especially neoprogressive) feast as we study the similarities and disparities of music which has come to us the last two decades from Poland, Hungary, and Russia. In my brief reading of it, the family tree is Collage -> Satellite and Collage -> Believe, and your assignment is to fill in the tree for the other bands if there are any "roots to branches" I've missed. I could also use a little pronunciation help with the musicians names!
Please also let me know of other eastern European / Russian bands that we should know more about.
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Collage - Heroes Cry (6:39)
~~The Neoprogressive Influence~~ After... - Dreams Hang on Walls (4:25) Believe - Pain (5:15) Believe - What Is Love (7:42) After... - Away (4:31)
~~Hungary~~ After Crying - Secret Service (15:24) After Crying - Technopolis (7:50)
~~Back to Poland~~ Satellite - Beautiful World (9:05) After... - Kite (10:36)
~~Russia~~ The Gourishankar - Syx (11:09)
Addendum: DaveP In Memoriam
Robert Fripp - A Cathedral of Tears (background track) Satellite - Take It As It Is Rush - The Main Monkey Business Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere, But Not Here The Jelly Jams - Nature's Girl Kansas - Magnum Opus
Posted: August 20th, 2007 for download/stream anytime Show replay at 12 noon PDT August 20th
Well, it's the 42nd Retune The Sky, and those of us who have spent time in Douglas Adams' universe know that 42 is the answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. To that end, a show about Life, the Universe, and just about Everything!
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Satellite - You Know and I Know (3:25)
~~ Life ~~ Douglas Adams - BBC Radio Collection - It Is Of Course Well Known (2:12) Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (5:55) Chroma Key - On The Page (4:22) The Cars - Moving In Stereo (4:42) King Crimson - Facts of Life (6:38)
Gentle Giant - Way of Life (7:52) Human Life Index - HLI (5:25) Proto Kaw - Alt. More Worlds Than Known (7:30)
~~ The Universe ~~ Genesis - Watcher of the Skies (7:23) Frameshift - Above the Grass (6:50) Jon Anderson - Solid Space (5:21)
Douglas Adams - BBC Radio Collection - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2:10) Trey Gunn - Acquiring Canopus (4:40) ABWH - The Order of the Universe (9:02)
~~ and Everything ~~ Douglas Adams - Life, The Universe, And Everything (3:23) Chain - Last Chance to See (10:11) Flower Kings - Cosmic Circus (3:12) Ayreon - The First Man on Earth (7:19)
Posted: September 10th, 2007 for download/stream anytime Show replay at 12 noon PDT September 10th and September 17th
It's been awhile since I've played a "South Side of the Sky" set on the show, so here's one entire program devoted to music from the Southern United States, land of pork rinds, Moon Pies, and some great progressive music. From Florida, through Georgia and Tennessee, and across to Texas, it's all here. To cap it all off, I play an extended set of my favorites from Adrian Belew's last three releases, Side 1, Side 2, and Side 3.
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Little Atlas - The Ballad of Eddie Wanderlust (7:33)
Dixie Dregs - Take It Off The Top (4:06) Dixie Dregs - Little Kids (2:05) Dixie Dregs - Odyssey (7:36) Dixie Dregs - Night Meets Light (7:59)
Platypus - Chimes (4:44) Platypus - Gone (6:38) Liquid Village - One The Flesh (4:34) Bolt - Division By Zero (5:49) Salem Hill - All Fall Down (7:12)
Man On Fire - Awake i. Prayer in the Moonlight (5:21) Man On Fire - Awake ii. Bitter Tears Burning (3:40) Man On Fire - Awake iii. Ascension (2:10) Glass Hammer - Run Lissette (10:29)
~~ BIG ELECTRIC BELEW SET ~~ Adrian Belew - Beat Box Guitar (5:08) Adrian Belew - Matchless Man (2:33) Adrian Belew - Under The Radar (1:39) Adrian Belew - Water Turns To Wine (3:46) Adrian Belew - Ampersand (4:23)
Adrian Belew - Face To Face (3:03) Adrian Belew - Whatever (3:17) Adrian Belew - I Wish I Knew (3:19) Adrian Belew - Drive (3:27) Adrian Belew - Beat Box Car (4:30)
Show #45 - Odyssey, the Greatest Tale: Part I or, That 70's Sensibility
Posted: October 18th, 2007 Show replay at 12 noon PDT October 22nd
Finishing up playing tunes from the Odyssey this week, plus new music from Circa, Jordan Rudess, and Glass Hammer. Jon Anderson guests on one of these three band's new releases, see if you can guess which before having a listen.
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Circa - Cut The Ties (5:40)
Glass Hammer - South Side of the Sky (9:25) Glass Hammer - Life In Light (7:34) Jordan Rudess - Soundchaser (12:54)
~~ Odyssey: The Greatest Tale ~~ Minimum Vital - Etranger En Sa Demeure (22:22)
Posted: November 12th, 2007 Show replay at 12 noon PDT November 18th
More of the new Glass Hammer release, more new Jordan Rudess, some new and not-so-new music featuring Tony Levin, and a couple of surprises.
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Glass Hammer - Rest (6:36)
Glass Hammer - The Sun Song (9:36) Glass Hammer - Ember Without Name (16:38)
~~ My Crimson Fix ~~ King Crimson - Satori In Tangiers (3:35) Tony Levin - Gut String Theory (3:28) Tony Levin Band - Black Dog (live - 5:37) Tony Levin Band - Back in N.Y.C. (live - 6:15) Tony Levin - Slow Glide (4:01)
Gentle Giant - Knots (4:06) Jordan Rudess - Just the Same (8:22) Spocks Beard - Gibberish (4:18)
Jordan Rudess - Dance on a Volcano (8:44) Pat Metheny - Electric Counterpoint (4:39)
Posted: November 26th, 2007 (but show broadcast was cutoff) Show replay December 3rd at 12 noon PDT
Sets from some artists I've been listening to lately: Proto Kaw, Man on Fire, Kansas, Neal Morse (well, a set of one) and the usual Crimson set, this time all from the Discipline-era band.
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Proto Kaw - Melicus Gladiator (4:52)
Proto Kaw - Osvaldo's Groceries (3:17) Proto Kaw - Physic (5:43) Proto Kaw - Quantum Leapfrog (5:44) Proto Kaw - Occasion of Your Honest Dreaming (3:40)
Man on Fire - The Block (5:37) Man on Fire - Mr Lie (5:50) Man on Fire - Broken (6:27) Man on Fire - Habitat (8:15)
~~ Crimson Fix ~~ King Crimson - Neal and Jack and Me (4:22) King Crimson - Industry - live (7:31) King Crimson - Indiscipline - live (8:12)
Mike Keneally - Land of Broken Dreams (2:28) Kansas - On the Other Side (6:26) Kansas - Reason To Be (3:50) Kansas - Glimpse of Home (6:37)
Posted: December 10th, 2007 Show replay December 17th at 12 noon PDT
What I'd be listening to as I drift off to sleep, windows open, soft breeze wafting in, in the early fall or late spring. And then the dream takes me, and mutates, always mutating, into another Red nightmare...
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Happy The Man - Carousel (4:02)
~~ Drifting Off ~~ Tangerine Dream - Oriental Haze (6:52) Tangerine Dream - Two Bunch Palms (5:48) Happy The Man - Stumpy Meets the Firecracker in the Forest (4:21) Kit Watkins - Setting Iron John Free (7:22)
~~ Dreaming ~~ Platypus - Chimes (4:44) California Guitar Trio - Relative Illusion (3:39) Porcupine Tree - The Sound of No-one Listening (8:13)
Isildur's Bane - A Blank Page (3:07) Quodia - We Began With a Woman (4:24) Quodia - The Arrow (1:26) Isildur's Bane - The Flight Onward (12:05)
~~ Nightmare ~~ King Crimson - One More Red Nightmare (7:07) King Crimson - Fracture (11:12) King Crimson - Thrak (7:18) King Crimson - The Deception of the Thrush (8:26)
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Outer Blue (6:06)
Show #49 - Into the Dream (Trending toward Nightmare)
Posted: December 31st, 2007 Show replay January 7th, 2008 at 12 noon PDT
Yet another meditation on the "occasion of your honest dreaming," tending towards nightmares...or songs about things that keep folks up at night.
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Tony Levin Band - Sleepless (6:42)
Pat Metheny - Into The Dream (2:27) CGT - Sleepwalk (2:15) Trey Gunn - Gate of Dreams (5:22) Yes - DreamTime (10:45)
Platypus - Gone (6:38) Rush - Double Agent (4:52) Proto Kaw - The Relics of the Tempest (5:07) Opeth - Death Whispered a Lullaby (5:49) Porcupine Tree - Radioactive Toy (10:02)
Adrian Belew - Asleep (5:23) Miriodor - The Ghost of M.C. Escher (6:28) ProjeKct Four - Ghost (Part 1) (24:22)
Show #50 - Much More than just Blips, Bleeps, and Bloops
Posted: January 14th, 2008 Show replay January 21st at 12 noon PDT
Meditating especially on the influence of electronic music, analog and otherwise, in progressive tunes.
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Jean-Michel Jarre - Ethnicolor (11:47)
RPWL - Welcome to the Machine (7:16) Man on Fire - Inside of the Circle (4:36) Frost* - Snowman (3:55) Porcupine Tree - .3 (5:25) Jordan Rudess - Tarkus (22:47)
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Allswell That Endswell in Roswell (6:53) B.L.U.E. - A Palace of Pearls (on a blade of grass) (5:59) Gentle Giant - The Runaway (7:15) Tony Levin - Phobos (7:09)
Retune the Sky Show #51 - Under the Influence of St. Valentine
Posted :Monday February 18th, 2008 Replay on February 25th at 12 noon PDT
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) The Who - Love, Reign O'er Me (5:48)
Pat Metheny - Follow Me (5:56) Cafiene - Don Juan (8:17) Gitbox - Be Longing (2:12) California Guitar Trio - Relative Illusion (3:39) Big Big Train - Summer's Lease (7:34)
Yes - And You And I (10:11) Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song (7:39) Glass Hammer - Lirazel (4:33) Glass Hammer - Rest (6:36)
Satellite - Take It As It Is (3:00) Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlight Knight (8:04) Pat Metheny - The Heat of the Day (9:44)
The Watch - Berlin, 1936 (8:51) Karnataka - Heart of Stone (10:31)
Posted Monday March 3rd, 2008 Replay on March 10th at 12 noon PDT
Gotta long commute, gotta long set of great driving tunes.
Retune the Sky Intro (1:16) Frost* - Hyperventilate (7:31)
Neal Morse - Temple of the Living God (6:13) Neal Morse - Another World (2:36) Neal Morse - The Outsider (2:21) Neal Morse - Sweet Elation (2:32) Neal Morse - In The Fire (7:25) Neal Morse - Solid As the Sun (6:12)
Big Big Train - Perfect Cosmic Storm (14:40) Big Big Train - Breathing Space (1:47) Big Big Train - Pick Up If You're There (13:40)
Adrian Belew - Drive (3:27) Adrian Belew - Dead Dog on Asphalt (4:05) Adrian Belew - I Wish I Knew (3:19) Adrian Belew - Face To Face (3:03) Adrian Belew - Asleep (5:23) Adrian Belew - Ampersand (4:23)
Frost* - The Other Me (4:51) The Reasoning - Awakening (6:35) UK-5 with Walter Moore and David Walliman - Will I Never Know (5:15) Proto Kaw - Melicus Gladiator (4:52)
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