Love Letters

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Love Letters 31 - Featured Artist - Transatlantic

Transatlantic is the featured artist this week to celebrate their "Wirld Tour" release.
 
Transatlantic - We All Need Some Light
Transatlantic - My New World
Transatlantic - Suite Charlotte Peak Medley
RPWL - This is Not a Prog Medley
Steve Hackett and Transatlantic - The Return of the Giant Hogweed
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Kaftan Smeha - The Command
John Young Band - Kings
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind

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Love Letters 32 - Marconi Bakery Award-winning Letters 1974-76

This week's Love Letters is part 2 of a 5-part PFM retrospective, this time looking mainly at performances from 1976, but includes a few letters from 1974 as well, and the first ever Love Letters contest! 
 
PFM - Paper Charms
PFM - Four Holes in the Ground
PFM - Acoustic Guitar Solo
Neuschwanstein - Palace of Wonderland>The Court of the Animals
PFM - Dove Quandro
PFM - River of Life
PFM - Is My Face on Straight
PFM - Just Look Away
Steve Hackett - Kim
Steve Hackett - Second Chance
Steve Hackett - Oh How I Love You
PFM - Spanish Jam
PFM - Pascolo Siderale Jam
PFM - WB Violin Jam>Violin Classic Solo>William Tell Overture
PFM - La Grande Fuga
Information Superhighway - Simple Unfolding
PFM - Impressioni Di Settembre>Poseidon

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Love Letters 33 - Acoustic 2

It's that time of year when Americans overeat.  This week's show features acoustic performances to help you relax, regardless of where you may be and how much internal gastro-intestinal distress you may be suffering.  New live acoustic releases from Magenta and Marillion are featured.
 
Magenta - Children of the Sun
Marillion - Hard as Love
Marillion - This is the 21st Century
Marillion - Memory of Water
Marillion - You're Gone
Pendragon - And We'll Go Hunting Deer
Magenta - Anger
Magenta - Blind Faith
Magenta - Speechless
Kansas - Dust in the Wind>Acoustic Guitar Solo
Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands
Steve Hackett - A Cradle of Swans
Steve Hackett - Jazz on a Summer's Night
Anthony Phillips & Guillermo Cazenave - She'll Be Waiting
Anthony Phillips & Guillermo Cazenave - Lucy: an Illusion
Al DiMeola - Infinite Desire
California Guitar Trio - The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Magenta - Moving On
Magenta - Journeys End
Fish - The Field
Fish - Jumpsuit City
Marillion - Quartz
Marillion - Gazpacho
Magenta - Metamorphosis

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Love Letters 34 - How Smart Are You?

What's your IQ?  Tune in this week to hear IQ live recordings over the years, from early concert recordings to their brand new concert release celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Wake.
 
IQ - Awake and Nervous
IQ - Fascination
IQ - IQ
Wigwam - Let it Be
Kayak - Full Circle
IQ - Wurensh
IQ - Out of Nowhere
IQ - Nostalgia-Falling Apart at the Seams>The Last Human Gateway (middle section)
Steve Hackett - Every Day
Steve Hackett - Overnight Sleeper
Steve Hackett - Hope I Don't Wake
Information Superhighway - The Real Things
IQ - Overture>Provider>Subterranea>Sleepless Incidental
IQ - Guiding Light
Karnataka - Out of Reach
IQ - Outer Limits>The Wake>The Magic Roundabout
IQ - Widow's Peak

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Love Letters 35 - Half Under the Covers 2

Technically not the original artist, but it's hard to look at these as covers.  We're half under the covers again,
 
1. Carl Palmer - Peter Gunn
2. Fish - Forgotten Sons
3. H Band - Estonia
4. H Band - This is the 21st Century
5. Keith Emerson - Lucky Man
6. Greg Lake - Fanfare for the Common Man
7. Carl Palmer - Bitches Crystal
8. Carl Palmer - Nutrocker
9. Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
10. Steve Hackett - Fly on a Windshield>Broadway Melody of 1974
11. Lams Griesgraber - Punta Patri
12. 21st Century Schizoid Band - Catleys Ashes
13. 21st Century Schizoid Band - Formentary Lady
14. 21st Century Schizoid Band - Sailors Tale
15. Stickmen - Red
16. UKZ - Starless
17. Roger Waters - Pigs on the Wing Pt. 1
18. Roger Waters - Dogs
19. Roger Waters - Welcome to the Machine
20. Neal Morse - We All Need Some Light
21. Steve Howe - Excerpts from Tales from Topographic Oceans

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Love Letters 36 - Award-winning Marconi Bakery Letters - 1977-81

PFM from 1977-81, plus new District 97, Discipline, and more.

1. PFM - Maestro Della Voce
2. PFM - Passpartu
3. PFM - Jet Lag
4. District 97 - Who Cares?
5. District 97 - The Back and Forth
6. Discipline - Wrists
7. Discipline - Circuiltry
8. PFM - Left Handed Theory
9. PFM - Lory>Suonare Suonare
10. Steve Hackett - The Journey
11. Steve Hackett - Bacchus
12. Steve Hackett - Walking Away from Rainbows
13. Laurie Anderson - Walk the Dog
14. H Band - I Don't Remember
15. PFM - Greek Reflection>Traveller
16. PFM - Il Banchetto
17. Fromuz - Influence of Time>Perfect Love
18. PFM - Si Puo Fare

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Love Letters 37 - December Birthday Celebration Pt. 1

Adrian Belew and Dave Stewart are featured heavily this week (and next).  In this episode, we look at Adrian's early years, and hear what Dave was up to in the last half of the 70s.
 
1. Bruford - Hell's Bells
2. Frank Zappa - City of Tiny Lights>Baby Snakes>Pound for a Brown
3. Bruford - Sample and Hold
4. Jethro Tull - Flute Solo Improv>God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen>Bouree
5. District 97 - I Can't Take You With Me
6. National Health - Tenemos Roads Part Two
7. Laurie Anderson - Late Show
8. Laurie Anderson - Talk Normal
9. Laurie Anderson - Sharkey's Night
10. Laurie Anderson - Credit Racket
11. Steve Hackett - Serpentine Song
12. Steve Hackett - Watcher of the Skies
13. National Health - Lethargy
14. Discipline - Canto IV
15. Adrian Belew - Big Electric Cat
16. Adrian Belew - Three of a Perfect Pair
17. Adrian Belew - Thela Hun Ginjeet
18. Rene Young - Astronomy Domine [not live]
19. National Health - Tenemos Roads Part One

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Love Letters 38 - December Birthday Celebration Pt. 2

This week we continue our celebration of birthday boys Adrian Belew and Dave Stewart, and also tip our hats to another artist with a December birthday, Jeff Lynn of ELO.

1. Egg - Seven is a Jolly Good Time
2. The Bears - Mr. Bonaparte
3. The Bears - Trust
4. The Bears - Complicated Potatoes
5. Information Superhighway - The Whispering and the Sky
6. Hatfield and the North - Born Again Crustacean>Elevenses
7. Hatfield and the North - The Mens 1-Meter Dash>K Licks>One of Wilde's
8. The Bears - Caveman>Man Behind the Curtain
9. Steve Hackett - A Tower Struck Down>Spectral Mornings
10. Steve Hackett - Clocks-The Angel of Mons
11. Adrian Belew - Ampersand
12. Adrian Belew - Young Lions
13. Electric Light Orchestra - Nightrider
14. Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown
15. H Band - Life is a Long Song
16. Egg - Germ Patrol
17. Egg - Blane Over Camden>Long Piece No. 3 Pt. 3
18. The Bears - Dave
19. Adrian Belew - Dinosaur
20. Adrian Belew - e
21. Umphrey's McGee and Adrian Belew - Thela Hun Ginjeet

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Love Letters 39 - Zzzzz

For those listeners in the Northern Hemisphere, the nights are long.  These live recordings may/may not help you get your Zs, with some songs about sleep and dreaming, and artists associated with the letter Z.
 
1. RPWL - Sleep
2. Steve Hackett - Sleepers
3. Steve Hackett - Overnight Sleeper
4. Porcupine Tree - The Sleep of No Dreaming
5. Warren Zevon - Mohammed's Radio
6. Warren Zevon - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
7. Izz - Late Night Salvation
8. Karnataka - Dreamer
9. It Bites - Plastic Dreamer
10. Knight Area - Dreamweaver
11. Touchstone - Discordant Dreams>The Beggar's Song
12. Fromuz - Babylon Dreams
13. Karnataka - These Dreams are Over
14. California Guitar Trio with Levin and Mastelotto - Heart of the Sunrise
15. U-Z - Awakening
16. Fromuz - Intro>From Fromuz
17. Azigza - Zaman
18. Frank Zappa - Camarillo Brillo>Muffin Man

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Love Letters 40 - Award-winning Marconi Bakery Letters 1998-2002

We're up to part 4 of the Love Letters PFM retrospective, this time looking at early concert recordings from the reformed PFM.  There's also new Knight Area, Steve Hackett, and some requests.

1. PFM - Four Holes in the Ground
2. PFM - Andare per andare
3. PFM - La Carrozza di Hans
4. Knight Area - Occlusion
5. Knight Area - Mortal Brow
6. PFM - Sei
7. District 97 - Presto Vivace>Back in NYC
8. PFM - Il cavallo di legno
9. PFM - Ulisse
10. Laurie Anderson - Cartoon Song>Small Voice>Three Walking Songs
11. Steve Hackett - Emerald and Ash
12. Steve Hackett - Ghost in the Glass
13. Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands
14. PFM - Out of the Roundabout
15. PFM - La Rivoluzione
16. Peter Gabriel - Mother of Violence
17. Peter Gabriel - Darkness
18. Peter Gabriel - The Tower that Ate People
19. Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto
20. RPWL - This is not a Prog Medley
21. PFM - Tokyo Piano Solo>Dove Quandro Pt. 2
22. PFM - Dove Quandro
23. PFM - Impressioni di Settembre

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Love Letters 41 - Fire and Rain

Live recordings this week of songs related to... you guessed it, fire and rain.
 
1. Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood
2. RPWL - Start the Fire
3. Tinyfish - Nine Months on Fire
4. 801 - Baby's on Fire
5. Marillion - Sugar Mice
6. Bill Frisell - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
7. The Mahavishnu Project - Birds of Fire
8. Tony Levin - Pillar of Fire
9. Ten Jinn - Byzantine Fire
10. The Pogues - Rain Street
11. Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain
12. Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
13. Steve Hackett - Fire on the Moon
14. Genesis - Dance on a Volcano
15. The Bears - Under the Volcano
16. Grateful Dead - Fire on the Mountain
17. Peter Gabriel - The Rhythm of the Heat
18. Asia - The Heat Goes On
19. Asia - Heat of the Moment
20. Laurie Anderson - Hothead
21. Karnataka - Delicate Flame of Desire
22. Peter Gabriel - Burn You Up, Burn You Down
23. Brand X - Nuclear Burn
24. Mostly Autumn - Storms Over Still Water
25. Karnatica - The Storm
26. Karnatica - After the Rain

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Love Letters 42 - A Pool of Tears

Another thematic (and long) Love Letter this week as we explore concert recordings of songs about water and its different bodies.  Hopefully it won't
feel like water torture!

1. Genesis - Squonk
2. Trey Gunn - Rune Song - The Origin of Water
3. California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin - Waters of Eden
4. Greg Howard - Water on the Moon Pt. 4
5. Allan Holdsworth - Water on the Brain Pt. 2
6. The Pogues - Streams of Whiskey
7. Steve Hackett - Jacuzzi
8. Genesis - Fountain of Salmacis
9. Steve Hackett - Still Waters
10. H Band - The Deep Water
11. Peter Gabriel - Washing of the Water
12. Marillion - I Will Walk on Water
13. Genesis - Ripples
14. Iona - Wave after Wave
15. Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Crosscurrents
16. Lams Griesgraber - The Marsh
17. Curlew - Moonlake
18. Laurie Anderson - Blue Lagoon
19. Laurie Anderson - Over the River
20. The Bears - Little Blue River
21. Izz - My River Flows
22. PFM - Rain Birth>River of Life
23. PFM with Peter Hammill - Sea of Memory [not live]
24. BLUE - Cerulean Sea
25. Great Big Sea - Sea of No Cares
26. Upsilon - Transparent Seas
27. Spock's Beard - The Water

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Love Letters 43 - A Festive Letter

All recordings in this week's show are from various festivals (Nearfest, Calprog, Progday, etc.).  I intend to make this a regular Love Letters feature.

1. Glass Hammer - Chronotheme
2. Happy the Man - Contemporary Insanity
3. Hamadryad - Sparks and Begign Magic/Self Made Man>Anatomy of a Dream
4. Kalaban - Mutants over Miami
5. Echolyn - The Cheese Stands Alone
6. Glass Hammer - Something's Coming
7. Steve Hackett - The Floating Seventh>Mechanical Bride
8. Steve Hackett - Medley
9. Par Lindh Project - Bilbo Medley
10. Ars Nova - Transi
11. Touchstone - The Mad Hatter's Song
12. Touchstone - Joker in the Pack
13. Riverside - Reality Dream III
14. Agents of Mercy - Fading Ghosts of Twilight
15. Cabezas de Cera - Indomable
16. Galadriel - Soft as a Feather
17. District 97 - Termites
18. RPWL - Roses
19. Ambrosia - Mama Frog
20. Manifesto - Red
21. Finisterre - Altaloma
22. Yes - Awaken

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Love Letters 44 - February Birthday Celebration

This week we celebrate some February prog rock birthdays including Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Peter Nichols, and Mauro Pagani.

1. Genesis - Stagnation
2. Genesis - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
3. Genesis - Firth of Fifth
4. Giraffe - The Colony of Slippermen
5. IQ - Crazy Horses
6. They Might Be Giants - She's Actual Size
7. Discipline - The Nursery Year
8. Peter Gabriel - Secret World
9. Steve Hackett - Cavalcanti>Adante in C
10. Steve Hackett - Concerto in D
11. Peter Gabriel - Animal Nation
12. IQ - Headlong
13. IQ - Crashed and Burned
14. IQ - Failsafe
15. Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street
16. Steve Hackett - Polution C>The Steppes
17. Steve Hackett - Slogans
18. Discipline - Carmilla
19. Peter Gabriel - Moribund the Bergermeister
20. Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot
21. PFM - Alta Loma Five 'til Nine
22. Peter Gabriel - Biko

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Love Letters 45 - Awared-winning Marconi Bakery Letters 2002-05

The final part of the Love Letters PFM retrospective features more-recent live
recordings from the band.

1. PFM+Pagani - Rain Birth>River of Life
2. PFM+Pagani - Photos of Ghosts
3. Knight Area - Ethereal
4. Pallas - Rat Racing
5. PFM - Dolcissima Maria
6. PFM - Maestro Della Voce
7. PFM - Si Puo Fare
8. Wussy - Airborne
9. Steve Hackett - A Blue Part of Town
10. Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands
11. Rick Wakeman - The Nursery Rhyme Concerto
12. Keith Emerson - Miles Away>Crusaders Cross>Fugue
13. PFM+Pagani - Mr 9 Till 5>Siena Violin Jam>William Tell Overture
14. National Health - Pleaides
15. Rush - Xanadu
16. PFM - Impressioni Di Settembre