STCBM041: A Boy in Darkness

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Big Big Train - A Boy in Darkness (from English Electric Part One)
Marillion - Three Minute Boy (from Radiation)
Fractal Mirror - Universal (from Slow Burn 1)
British Theatre - Blue Horror (from Mastery)
IQ - You Never Will (from Dark Matter)
Fruitcake - On the Edge (from Man Overboard)
Mystery - The Sailor and the Mermaid (from Beneath The Veil Of Winter's Face)
Oktopus - Eyes Open (from Worlds Apart)
Amplifier - The Octopus (from The Octopus)

SWMBO’s The Eighties at 8: 
Electric Light Orchestra - Ticket to the Moon (from Time)
Twelfth Night - Love Song (from Fact & Fiction)

Niall Mathewson - Left it Behind (from Eclectic Electric Volume 1)
Messenger - Dear Departure (from Illusory Blues)
Sylvan - Turn of the Tide (from Force of Gravity)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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Next week’s edition of Sounds That Can Be Made on Progzilla.com will feature music by Paradigm Shift, Dreamscape, Lee Abraham, Parzivals Eye, Riverside, Lonely Robot, Asia, Gazpacho, Mr. So & So, Spock’s Beard and The Skys with our Eighties at 8 tracks from OMD and Fischer Z…

Be Aware!

I must confess I know nothing about Paradigm Shift, other than they are signed to Bad Elephant and their debut album, Becoming Aware, is released in June. As to what they sounded like I hadn't a clue so I had absolutely no expectations when BEM sent me a pre-release copy to play tracks from on STCBM especially give the eclectic and varied nature of Bad Elephant's releases...

The album opens with the nearly fifteen minute long track; A Revolutionary Cure (yep, it's prog!) with news soundbites over synths before a wonderfully heavy guitar kicks in. I'm hooked. This rocks!

With the addition of news and documentary soundbites it put me in mind of Galahad's excellent Empires Never Last, though maybe recorded by HeKz! :-) In parts the album is very heavy and may have veered into prog metal territory with a more traditional metal drum sound, instead the percussion borders on being slightly funky, maybe even a little jazzy. Whatever it works and Paradigm Shift have produced a wonderful debut album with lots to recommend it. My only criticism is maybe the vocal could do with a little more oomph in a traditional rock style.

It's a hard album to label. It's definitely prog, but although the guitar wigs out and has some great chunky riffs it is not metal. Whilst I made reference to Galahad, it isn't neo-prog either (not that Galahad are really that anymore). It's modern prog, with a seventies classic rock vibe, some wonderful musicianship (there is some lovely piano throughout) and well written songs that have something to say.

Overall this was a big surprise and both and album and a band that deserve attention.

STCBM040: This Is Not A Prog Song

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

RPWL - This Is Not A Prog Song (from The RPWL Experience)
The Broken Oak Duet - Edward the Astronomer (from Terrain)
The Fierce & The Dead - And The Bandit (from Spooky Action)
Parzivals Eye - Chicago (from Fragments)
The Room - Full Circle (from Beyond The Gates Of Bedlam)
Shaolin Death Squad - Farewell (from Five Deadly Venoms)
Sieges Even - The Lonely Views of Condors (from The Art of Navigating By the Stars)
Mike Kershaw - The City Revealed (from What Lies Beneath)
Konchordat - Statement of Intent (from Rise to Order)
Phideaux - Helix (from Snowtorch)
Cut_ - Shoot the Moon (from Millionairhead)

The Eighties at 8: 
Faith No More - Epic (from The Real Thing)
Pink Floyd - Sorrow (from A Momentary Lapse of Reason)

3 - One With the Sun (from The Ghost You Gave to Me)
Frost* - Heartstrings (from Falling Satellites)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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Next week’s edition of Sounds That Can Be Made on Progzilla.com will feature music by Big Big Train, Marillion, Fractal Mirror, British Theatre, IQ, Fruitcake, Mystery, Oktopus, Amplifier, Niall Mathewson, Messenger - Band and Sylvan with our Eighties at 8 tracks celebrating SWMBO’s birthday from ELO and Twelfth Night…

STCBM039: ANZAC Day Special

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Voyager - Hyperventilating (from V)
Arcane - Keeping Stone: Water Awake (from Known/Learned)
Caligula's Horse - Bloom (from Bloom)
Acolyte - The Message (from Shades of Black)
Jakob - Malachite (from Solace)
Look To Windward - Dwell (from Kepler)
Toehider - Meet the Sloth (from What Kind of Creature Am I?)
Aronora - Set to Fail (from Escapology)
Ben Craven - Last Chance to Hear Part 2 (from Last Chance to Hear)

The Eighties at 8:
Men at Work - Down Under (from Business As Usual)
Split Enz - I Got You (from True Colours)
Aragon - The Cradle (from Don’t Bring the Rain)

Unitopia - Don’t Give Up Love (from The Garden)
Anubis - Hitchhiking to Byzantium (from Hitchhiking to Byzantium)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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Next week’s edition of Sounds That Can Be Made on Progzilla.com will feature music by RPWL, The Broken Oak Duet, The Fierce and the Dead, Parzivals Eye, The Room, Shaolin Death Squad, Phideaux, Mike Kershaw, Konchordat, Sieges Even, Cut_, 3 and Frost* with our Eighties at 8 tracks from Faith No More and Pink Floyd…

STCBM038: Sleeping Giants

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Touchstone - Sleeping Giants (from The City Sleeps)
Kingbathmat - Rejected (from Fantastic Freak Show Carnival)
Maze of Time - Ocean of Dreams (from Tales From the Maze)
Mike Kershaw - Terracotta (from Ice Age)
Alcest - Autre Temps (from Les Voyages de L’Âme)
Coheed and Cambria - The Light & The Glass (from In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3)
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (from Deadwing)
Masakichi - Papercuts (from Hummingbird)
Marriages - Part the Dark Again (from Kitsune)

The Eighties at 8:
Barclay James Harvest - Berlin (from Berlin: A Concert For The People)
Marillion - Berlin (from Seasons End)

Hedfuzy - When I Come Back Down (from Hedfuzy)
Red Bazar - Sunset For a New World (from Tales From the Bookcase)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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STCBM037: Bouncing Dot

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

The Algorithm - Bouncing Dot (from Polymorphic Code)
Panic Room - Screens (from Skin)
Sieges Even - Lighthouse (from The Art of Navigating By the Stars)
Konchordat - Save Me From The Rain (from Rise To The Order)
IQ - Sacred Sound (from Dark Matter)
Ray Wilson - Propaganda Man (from Propaganda Man)
Knifeworld - Secret Words (from Bottled Out of Eden)
Galahad - Termination (from Empires Never Last)
The Pineapple Thief - Snowdrops (from Little Man)

The Eighties at 8: 
Asia - Sole Survivor (from Asia)
It Bites - You’ll Never Go to Heaven (from The Big Lad in the Windmill)

Kula Shaker - Sound of Drums (from Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts)
Also Eden - For Bumble (from About Time)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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STCBM036: Crossfire

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Grey Lady Down - Crossfire (from Star-Crossed)
The Room - As Crazy As It Seems (from Beyond the Gates of Bedlam)
Jadis - Hear Us (from Somersault)
Lonely Robot - Airlock (from Please Come Home)
Kino - Perfect Tense (from Kino)
Times Up - When Kings Fall (from Sea of Schemes)
Martin Orford - Take It To the Sun (from The Old Road)
Von Hertzen Brothers - Prospect For Escape (from Nine Lives)
Messenger - Piscean Tide (from Illusory Blues)

The Eighties at 8: 
Ultravox - We Stand Alone (from Rage in Eden)
Pink Floyd - Two Suns in the Sunset (from The Final Cut)

Nine Stones Close - One Eye on the Sunrise (from One Eye on the Sunrise)
Muse - United States Of Eurasia / Collateral Damage (from The Resistance)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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STCBM035: Easter

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Marillion - Easter (from Season’s End)
Pallas - Violet Sky (from XXV)
Cynic - True Hallucination Speak (from Kindly Bent to Free Us)
Lacuna Coil - Our Truth (from Karmacode)
Tom Slatter - Mother's Been Talking To Ghosts Again (from Three Rows of Teeth)
Gazpacho - Black Lily (from March of Ghosts)
Subsignal - The Stillness Beneath The Snow (from Paraíso)
Red Bazar - Queen of the Night Part 1 (from Tales From The Bookcase)
The Reasoning - The Thirteenth Hour (from Adverse Camber)
RPWL - Silenced (from The RPWL Experience)

The Eighties at 8: 
Pendragon - Alaska (from The Jewel)
Rainbow - Eyes of Fire (from Straight Between the Eyes)

Pure Reason Revolution - Blitzkrieg (from Hammer and Anvil)
Mystery - The Mourning Man (from Destiny?)

Hope you enjoyed it…
(repeats on Progzilla.com Friday at 1.30pm)

STCBM034: New Day Rising

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Von Hertzen Brothers - New Day Rising (from New Day Rising)
DeeExpus - Me and My Downfall (from King of Number 33)
Anathema - A Simple Mistake (from We're Here Because We're Here)
Antimatter - Black Eyed Man (from The Judas Table)
Twisted - Stranger in a Strange Land (from Peace Through Superior Firepower)
Also Eden - 1949 (from Think of the Children)
Steve Rothery - Morpheus (from The Ghosts of Pripyat)
Paul Cusick - Everblue (from Focal Point)

The Eighties at 8:
Peter Gabriel - Intruder (from Peter Gabriel III)
Jethro Tull - Broadsword (from The Broadsword & The Beast)

Full Nothing - Where the River Flows to Die (from Full Nothing)
Kalle Vilpuu - The Aliens (have Landed) (from Silver Lining)
Queensrÿche - Silent Lucidity (from Empire)
Pendragon - The King Of The Castle (from The Masquerade Overture)

Hope you enjoyed it…
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STCBM033: Welcome Back My Friends...

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 1st Impression, Pt 2 (from Brain Salad Surgery)
Fractal Mirror - Floods (from Slow Burn 1)
Agent Fresco - Eyes of a Cloud Catcher (from A Long Time Dreaming)
Flicker Rate - Elusive Rain (from Flicker Rate EP)
The Fierce & the Dead - Chief (rehearsal recording) (from Magnet vinyl EP)
Arcane - Little Burden (from Known/Learned)
Mike Kershaw - Shades of Quiet Terror (from Reason to Believe)
Dec Burke - Destroy All Monsters (from Destroy All Monsters)
Cosmograf - Stuck in the Wood (from Capacitor)
The Mute Gods - Feed the Troll (from Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me)

The Eighties at 8:
Marillion - Script For a Jester’s Tear (from Script For a Jester’s Tear)
Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free (single version) (from When The Tigers Broke Free)

Steven Wilson - Drive Home (from The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories))
The Enid - Mocking Bird (from First Light)
Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud (from Under the Red Cloud)

Hope you enjoyed it…
(repeats on Progzilla Radio Friday at 1.30pm)