The European Perspective

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In this episode of The European Perspective – Matt Stevens from The Fierce And The Dead chats to Wilf and chooses some of his favourite music. We also take a look back at Matt’s career as a band member and solo artist, as well as his collaborations with some of the biggest talents on the progressive rock scene.

Matt Stevens – Oxymoron (02:46) from Lucid, 2014
Orange Clocks – Magical Fields (03:45) from Tope’s Sphere 2, 2017
Emmett Elvin – Medicine Box (02:19) from Bloody Marvels, 2014
The Fierce And The Dead – I Like It, I’m Into It (04:08) from Spooky Action, 2013
Trojan Horse – Fire (01:44) from Fire Ep, 2012
Judy Dyble – She Now Owns a Heart of Stone (07:01) from Earth Is Sleeping, 2018
The Fierce And The Dead – Part 6 (The 8th Circuit) (03:57) from Magnet, 2015
Suns of the Tundra – Each of Us (04:59) from Murmuration, 2019
Nine Stones Close – Frozen Moment (13:35) from One Eye On The Sunrise, 2012
Matt Stevens – Scapegoat (04:51) from Relic, 2011
Robert Ramsay – Ego Power (01:53) from Confound And Disturb, 2017
Kalman Filter – Karus (14:34) from Exo-Oceans, 2018
The Fierce And The Dead – Flint (05:28) from If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe, 2011
The Bloody Mallard – Ceremonious Synapses ii (06:22) from Realm, 2020
Gandalf’s Fist – Drifter on the Edge of Time (06:38) from A Forest of Fey, 2014
Matt Stevens – Burning Bandstands (04:19) from Echo, 2008
Sanguine Hum – Bedhead (05:50) from Now We Have Power, 2018
Robert Ramsay – The Black Box Society (03:02) from Confound And Disturb, 2017
Matt Stevens – Big Sky (05:39) from Ghost, 2010
Valdez – Little Keys (04:01) from This, 2017
Cosmograf – The Vacuum That I Fly Through (04:50) from The Man Left in Space, 2013
The Fierce And The Dead – 666…6 (04:43) from On VHS, 2012
Nine Stones Close – Complicated (05:00) from Leaves, 2016
The Fierce And The Dead – I Like It, I’m Into It (04:09) from Live USA 17, 2019
Shineback – Kill Devil Hills (13:24) from Dial, 2018
Charlie Cawood – Garden of the Mind (06:44) from The Divine Abstract, 2017
The Fierce And The Dead – Let’s Start A Cult (03:10) from Live USA 17, 2019
Kavus Torabi – The Sentinel (04:20) from Hip To The Jag, 2020
The Fierce And The Dead – Part 7 & Part 8 (06:48) from The Euphoric, 2018

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In this episode of The European Perspective:

• A shorter show than usual!
• Martin, with Progradar’s Picks from Moon Halo, Blind Ego and Different Light
• The usual mix of new stuff and old stuff

Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance (02:45) from The Safety Dance, 1982

Orange Clocks – Miles Away (06:22) from Metamorphic, 2020

Suns of the Tundra – Four Corners (06:33) from Murmuration, 2019

Zopp – Before The Light (06:05) from Zopp, 2020

National Health – Brujo (10:17) from National Health, 1978

Egg – Germ Patrol (08:32) from The Civil Surface, 1974

Hatfield and the North – The Yes No Interlude (07:01) from The Rotters’ Club, 1975

The Tangent – The Canterbury Sequence (09:10) from L’Etagere Du Travail, 2013

Caravan – The Love In Your Eye (12:32) from Waterloo Lily, 1972

The Osiris Club – Wormwood Grange (06:05) from The Wine-Dark Sea, 2018

Snarky Puppy – Shofukan (12:07) from Live At The Royal Albert Hall, 2019

Discipline – Canto IV (Limbo) (13:47) from Unfolded Like Staircase, 1997

Machiavel – The Spirits Fly Again (04:30) from Eleven, 2011

Manning – A Road Less Travelled (10:34) from Number Ten, 2009

Marillion – Estonia (07:57) from With Friends from The Orchestra, 2019

Progradar’s Picks

Moon Halo – Seventh Heaven (04:54) from Chroma,

Blind Ego – Preaching To The Choir (06:06) from Preaching To The Choir, 2020

Different Light – Amphibians (08:52) from Binary Suns (Part 1), 2020

Spock’s Beard – Waiting For Me (12:37) from Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep, 2013

Rush – La Villa Strangiato (09:35) from Hemispheres, 1978

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“It’s prog, Jim, but not as we know it”

Finally, we reach the end of 2019, and the last of Wilf and Martin’s review of 2019.

Happy Christmas everyone!

Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (04:39) from Now That’s What I Call Xmas, 2009
Tool – Fear Inoculum (10:21) from Fear Inoculum, 2019
Charlie Cawood – The Dark Within (04:37) from Blurring Into Motion, 2019
Rise Twain  – Prayers (04:48) from Rise Twain , 2019
Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion  – Never Alone (08:20) from Parallel Life, 2019
Kaprekar’s Constant – Ghost Planes (10:41) from Depth Of Field, 2019
Thieves’ Kitchen – Uffington (11:35) from Genius Loci, 2019
Barock Project – Brain Damage (09:05) from Seven Seas, 2019
Eloy – Rouen (04:59) from The Vision, The Sword And The Pyre (Part II), 2019
IQ – Shallow Bay (06:21) from Resistance, 2019
League of Lights – On a Night Like This (04:04) from In the in Between, 2019
Opeth – Universal Truth (07:30) from In Cauda Venenum, 2019
The Fierce And The Dead – Andy Fox (05:57) from Live USA 17, 2019
Jon Hunt – Doormats Of The World Unite (04:02) from Emergency Call, 2019
Afenginn – Skapanin (the Creation) (04:40) from Klingra, 2019
Bent Knee – Garbage Shark (05:38) from You Know What They Mean, 2019
Ray Alder – A Beautiful Lie (04:10) from What The Water Wants, 2019
Rise – Cry Back Moon (04:57) from Strangers, 2019
Anthony Phillips – Winter Lights (06:20) from Strings Of Light, 2019
Bruce Soord – One Misstep (04:03) from All This Will Be Yours, 2019
Leprous – By My Throne (05:45) from Pitfalls, 2019
Morlock – Be Golden & Light (03:13) from Ancient Paths, 2019
Tinyfish – The Clock (10:04) from Secret Eve (Demos & Rarities), 2019
The Flower Kings – Vertigo (09:59) from Waiting For Miracles, 2019
no-man – Love You To Bits (Bits 1 to 5) (17:04) from Love You To Bits, 2019
Suns of the Tundra – Each of Us (04:59) from Murmuration, 2019
Franck Carducci – Slave To Rock ‘n’ Roll (05:45) from The Answer, 2019
Guranfoe – Eventide (07:51) from Sum of Erda, 2019
Bing Crosby – White Christmas (03:06) from Now That’s What I Call Xmas, 2009

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“I don’t care how goddamed illogical it is, Spock, the old tape-based Mellotrons just SOUND better! Digital, my arse!”

In this first of three end of 2019 specials, Wilf and Martin take a canter through some of the excellent albums released in the first part of the year.

Kylie Minogue – Santa Baby (03:22) from Now That’s What I Call Xmas, 2009
Lost Crowns – Sound As Colour (07:40) from Every Night Something Happens, 2019
The Neal Morse Band – I Got to Run (06:05) from The Great Adventure, 2019
Red Bazar – Future Song (06:56) from Things As They Appear, 2019
Duke 72 – Isadora (04:36) from The Mid Shires Herald, 2019
Cheeto’s Magazine – Ready to Rumble (05:06) from Amazingous, 2019
Motorpsycho – Lux Aeterna (10:56) from The Crucible, 2019
Joost Maglev – Ever After (07:09) from Alter Ego, 2019
The Mute Gods – Envy the Dead (05:41) from Atheists and Believers, 2019
RPWL – Not Our Place To Be (06:07) from Tales From Outer Space, 2019
Eveline’s Dust – Lost In A Lullaby (05:39) from K, 2019
The Far Meadow – Foreign Land (11:06) from Foreign Land, 2019
Giancarlo Erra – End VII (06:44) from ENDS, 2019
United Progressive Fraternity – Dying to be Reborn (05:20) from Loss Part 1, 2019
Isbjörg – Needles (05:59) from Iridescent, 2019
Lonely Robot – When Gravity Fails (05:04) from Under Stars, 2019
Bjørn Riis – Icarus (07:00) from A Storm Is Coming, 2019
Panzerpappa – Belgerisk Impro (06:48) from Summarisk Suite, 2019
Gong – The Elemental (06:43) from The Universe Also Collapses, 2019
Sarcophagus Now – Bitontologen (06:05) from Maneter, 2019
Snarky Puppy – Xavi (09:31) from Immigrance, 2019
Big Big Train – Voyager (14:03) from Grand Tour, 2019
North Sea Radio Orchestra – A Last Straw (05:27) from Folly Bololey (Songs from Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom), 2019
IZZ – Moment Of Inertia (09:46) from Don’t Panic, 2019
The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale Of New York (04:31) from Now That’s What I Call Xmas, 2009