Radio Free D'ni

This week’s show has a look at a Mole. OK, a former Matching Mole. Also formerly of Soft Machine. Also formerly able to walk. He credits having broken his spine with saving his life. If that’s not weird enough for you, wait until you hear about the rest of Robert Wyatt’s career!

Well, we’re not beating about the bush, eh? This week’s topic will be Merseybeat (a name that popularly gets shortened to just “beat”), a northern English take on American popular music as imported via Liverpool, which was popularised by bands such as Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Merseybeats, The Searchers, the Quarrymen… the latter sort…

Formed in 1970 from the leftovers of Sisyphus, this week’s subject did what every good british Prog band did: Disband. And reform. And disband. Three times. Mind you, not in total (that number is quite a bit higher), but within three years. In between re-forming and re-breaking-up, they also managed to record some music, which…

Yes, it has been another year of Radio Free D’ni, and that means that EdisonRex gets to put together a show for a change. As usual, it is an overview over the last year’s highlights.

This week, we will look at a band that, despite having been labeled a one-hit wonder, went quite a bit beyond the pale, or the whiter shade thereof. Pigeonholed as Symphonic Prog, they had a far wider range than just that, as we hope to show you.

This week, we will look at what a British emigré put together with the leftovers of a local Blues band in 1968. The results could be described as a “big tent” effort. They did call themselves Wigwam, after all. Not entirely happy with being labeled “Prog,” they said they did “deep Pop,” and you can…

Since it’s Mysterium time, this week will be a jazzy look at Myst-ish things. A rivening trail of odds and sods, leading the listener from exile to revelation, even to the end of ages. Or straight into the City, depending on which book you pick up.

This week’s offering is a look back at what Miles Davis did around the time of Birth of the Cool. Well, around the time the tracks collected on that compilation were recorded, so we’re talking about the end of the 1940s and onwards: the genesis of what became Cool Jazz.

Actually, yes it is. Easy Listening, that is, back for a second show this week.

No, not that one. We’re talking about Jackson Browne. While he has not been much of a chart presence by himself, as a songwriter, he has helped populate the Billboart top 20 since the early 1970s and continues to do so to this day. Though we’re more concerned with the man himself in this show,…