Thursday, March 27, 2008

The Fusion Reactor #186 - Flying Music

It struck me the other day how many proggers are obsessed with the idea of flying. This is only scratching the surface here, and I didn't play too many long songs so I could fit in a bunch of "flying" songs.

Fly Like An Eagle Hunter, Charlie 4:31
To Fly Over The Rainbow Fiorletta, Simone 5:05
Fear Of Flying Skolnick, Alex 5:12
Flying In A Blue Dream Satriani, Joe 5:24
Flying Saucer Dudes Fleck, Béla & the Flecktones 4:51
Fly Gungor, Michael 4:27
Learning to Fly Emerson, Lake & Powell 3:51
Fly On A Windshield Genesis 4:23
Fylingdale Flyer Jethro Tull 4:36
Flyin' High Gong 5:49
Flying High (Live) Eloy 3:31
I Can Fly Kansas 5:22
To Fly With You Ajalon 5:03
Fly Mike Duncan Project 5:26
Sky Flying On Fire Big Big Train 6:05
Time To Fly Ferris Mudd 6:52
Fly Away Lightspeed 7:01
The Fly-Toxmen's Land Univers Zero 4:52
May-Fly Underground Railroad, The 3:51
Fly Norlander, Erik 7:54
We Will Fly Allen, Russell 7:54
The Divine Art Of Flying Kopecky 5:26

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Fusion Reactor #185 - Off The Cuff

I thought it would be fun to do a show of improvised music. Here it is! Two hours of almost entirely improvised songs from various prog and fusion artists.

Improv #2 Plastic Crimewave Sound 4:59
Piano Improvisations Emerson, Lake & Palmer 11:53
Improvisation No. 4 Metheny, Pat and Jim Hall 2:37
Improvised Excerpt From Bela Bartok's Concerto For Orchestra, 2nd Movement Jordan, Stanley 9:53
Acoustic Guitar Improvisation 3 Morse, Neal 20:35
Hard to Find EtCetera Improv 1 Et Cetera 8:30
Three Minute Warning Parts 1-5 Liquid Tension Experiment 28:36
Improvisation Ajoutée Sonic Youth 2:55
Improv: The Rich Tapestry Of Life King Crimson 27:18

Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Fusion Reactor #184 - Part 4s

A short selection of long (mostly) part fours:

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Four (14:00) (The ConstruKction of Light)
Miles Davis - Black Beauty Part IV (15:40) (Black Beauty)
Invisigoth - Dark Highway Part 4 - Take The Blood (10:09) (Narcotica)
Porcupine Tree - Phase IV (13:41) (Voyage 34 - The Complete Trip)
Patrick Moraz - Archetypes: Movt. 4, Lost Way (4:12) (Windows Of Time)
Guapo - Five Suns - IV (12:56) (Five Suns)
Mike Oldfield - Incantations Part Four (16:56) (Incantations)
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Berlin, part 4 (7:31) (The International Story)
Magic Pie - Circus Of Life: IV-Trick Of The Mind (21:50) (Circus Of Life)

Thursday, March 06, 2008

The Fusion Reactor #183 - Part 3s

Part threes. And other things that indicate that it's the third part, even if it doesn't specifically say "part 3" in the title.

Nexus - So Close To The Fire (Metanoia Level 3) (7:17) (Metanoia)
Pat Metheny - The Way Up - Part Three (15:54) (The Way Up)
Patrick Moraz - Archetypes: Movt. 3, Initiation (4:08) (Windows Of Time)
Alan Morse - Track 3 (4:22) (Four O'Clock and Hysteria)
Guapo - Five Suns - III (10:30) (Five Suns)
Miles Davis - Zimbabwe, part 3 (8:05) (Pangaea)
Miles Davis - Gondwana, part 3 (10:01) (Pangaea)
Don Caballero - Don Caballero 3 (9:42) (What Burns Never Returns)
4/3 De Trio - D.dar (ii. Part Three) (7:22) (Ersatz)
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Part Three (3:26) (Petrophonics)
King Crimson - No Warning/Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part III (9:14) (Live In Japan)
Sonic Youth - Heady Jam 3 (27:02) (SYR 6: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui)