The Ancient One

03/09/2024

Ancient One show No 247 is now off and running on www.progzilla.com. Currently playing Fish with Little Man. What Now?

02/09/2024

Tuesday 3rd September on www.progzilla.com , there will be another 8 hours of superb music from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
8 hours of varied, but stunning, music, and there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see.
The Ancient One Show is subtitled "Mixed Bag" and features a selection of music from new releases and older tracks, plus a small tribute to Holger Czukay. (Left us on 5th Sept 2017)
In show No 247, hear music from UK, Germany, Italy, Poland, Australia, Spain, Romania and Norway.
Join the chatroom to find out what the presenters and listeners chat about. ( https://progzilla.com/chat/ )

20/08/2024

Tuesday 20th August on www.progzilla.com , there is the usual 8 hours of superb music from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell (I believe it is Pt1 of a Scottish Special..sounds good.)
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
8 hours of varied, but stunning, music, and there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see.
The Ancient One Show is subtitled "The Concept Album Show" and features a section of music from...a few concept albums.
In show No 246, hear music from Rick Wakeman Music, The Samurai of Prog, Edison's Children, Jon Anderson, Nolan/Oliver Wakeman and Freedom To Glide..
Join the chatroom to find out what the presenters and listeners chat about. ( https://progzilla.com/chat/ )

17/08/2024

In around 10 minutes, there is an Archive Show from The Ancient One broadcast on www.progzilla.com. This is Show No 57 and was originally broadcast in 2017.
Hear music from UK, Germany, Canada, Poland and Israel.

16/08/2024

The Ancient One has an Archive Show (No 57) going out on www.progzilla.com at midday UK tomorrow 17th August. This was originally broadcast on the station on 23rd May 2017.
Sat 17th August at midday will be Archive Show No 57 which originally was broadcast on 23rd May 2017. (over 7 years ago)
Playlist includes music from Freedom To Glide, Poor Genetic Material, Pete Sinfield , Long Earth , Cosmograf, Machines Dream, Abel Ganz, The Emerald Dawn, Pink Floyd, Martigan, Tony Patterson , Loonypark, Aperco, Ontofield, Freedom To Glide.

05/08/2024

Tuesday 6th August on www.progzilla.com , there is the usual 8 hours of superb music from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson

8 hours of varied, but stunning, music, and there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see.

The Ancient One Show is subtitled "Tall Tales" and features the longer tracks. Some tracks are shiny new ones and others are a little dusty.
In show No 245, hear music from The Windmill (Norway), Kaprekar's Constant (UK), ARGOS (Germany), Anders Buaas (Norway), KAIPA (Sweden), Ben Craven (Australia), Overture (Italy), Long Earth (UK) and Magenta (UK).

Join the chatroom to find out what the presenters and listeners chat about. ( https://progzilla.com/chat/ )

21/07/2024

Tuesday 23rd July on www.progzilla.com , there is the usual 8 hours of superb music from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson

8 hours of varied, but stunning, music, and there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see.

The Ancient One Show is subtitled "2 from 6" where we hear 6 bands, 1 album from each bands back catalogue and 2 tracks from that album. Some older stuff and some newer stuff.
In show No 244, hear music from Marquette (Germany), Rick Miller (Canada), Sunchild_AKP (Ukraine), Lars Fredrik Frøislie (Norway), Red Sand (Canada) and Telegraph (Israel).

Join the chatroom to find out what the presenters and listeners chat about. ( https://progzilla.com/chat/ )

08/07/2024

Tuesday 9th , on July www.progzilla.com , has the usual 8 hours of superb music from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
8 hours of varied, but stunning, music..there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see.
The Ancient One Show is subtitled "Take 5" where we hear 5 tracks from a series of bands/artists. Some older stuff and some newer stuff.
In the first of these shows, hear music from the following bands : Love, Family, Traffic, The Nice, Focus the band, Kevin Ayers, Pink Floyd, The Kinks, CAN and a 5 mix of single tracks from Rare Bird, Procol Harum, ELP, YES (official) and Jethro Tull.

join the chatroom to find out what the presenters and listeners chat about. ( https://progzilla.com/chat/ )

25/06/2024

LONG EARTH (SCOTLAND) An Ordinary Life

These Scottish veteran musicians released "The Source" in 2017, an excellent debut album that set the foundation for a huge upgrade on their sophomore 2023 work "Once Around the Sun" , a thoroughly engaging set of songs that did the rounds in the progressive circles, with both radio and critical praise. The arrival of Martin Haggerty on that second album certainly elevated the overall sound and this July 5th release should put the band over the top with well deserved recognition. With guitarist Renaldo McKim, keyboardist Mike Baxter, David McLachlan and Alex Smith on the drum kit, this quintet will impress the often fickle prog collective. Thank you, Anne-Claire Rallo of Bad Dog Promotions, for the heads-up copy!

Proof lies in that quintessential bold step of kicking off a new recording with a nice juicy epic "Fight the Hand That Bleeds You" , a brave 10 minute plus concoction that sets the ground rules for the next hour of sonic entertainment. The unmistakable throttle of the Hammond boosts the pulsating acceleration as Martin bemoans the current political plague of ineptitude in both the UK and the EU, elitist leaders who have little regard for common sense. McKim and Baxter fill out the aural canvas with colourful add-ons without resorting to ostentatious technical pirouettes, as exemplified in the sombre mid-section dripping with pathos and despair, profound melancholia and tired frustration. The bass takes a little romp around the neighbourhood, deepening the sorrowful atmosphere. When will peaceful coexistence prevail? Ad nauseam, we all hope for some kind of resolution! The right is never right and the left veered into the same silliness, they are sadly now undistinguishable.

"Morpheus " offers a gentler lilt, ringing guitars, piano twinkling and a heroic vocal, with generous doses of backing voices, and Martin displaying a charming tone that is most appealing, with a slight hint of Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet), filled out by a fluttering jazzy guitar that swirls with aplomb. A superb piece of melancholic beauty. That overall feel of sadness continues on the piano-led innocence of " Life" , a 'seeking solace'kind of tune, with clever lyrics and straightforward instrumental accompaniment, the focus clearly on the melody and the passionate vocal expression. As the arrangement progresses, the tempo expands into a higher level of urgency, the piano expressing the theme with majestic insistence, driving the emotion deep into the soul.

Titanic swaths of raunchy guitar, pushed with a thumping beat and a lurking bass undertone, "Sand" ratchets up the crackle with a rocking display, bombastic and overpoweringly epic, with a sense of 'too late to slow the hands of time', as everything seems to be spiralling out of control, an ovine cell-phone centric humanity that relies on depression and insomnia to get by each and every day, a constant struggle.

The massive "Shadows" is a well planned 11-minute pivotal behemoth, not as a countermeasure to the preceding folly, but rather a reminder how relationships continue to fail under all the constant pressure. A sad song, with reflective memories at the forefront, with poignant lyrics such as 'even though the fire burns low, the embers of our love still glow' . Gulp! Bass flutter not withstanding, the candles shiver in the wind. This has an almost classic the Strawbs feel, particularly when the symphonics kick in, the electric guitars glitter like gilded dust and the voice exalts in utter manifestation. Absolutely genius!

This segues nicely into "The Arc (Life part 2)", a timeless lament on 'where have the years gone', a blink of an eye and all has passed, a wholeheartedly sung chorus with tingling guitar and a woozy synth motif, a little hint of vintage China Crisis (I know, this 80s focus is alarming but quite true nevertheless).

The brooding, doom-laden "Moscow" is a devastating condemnation of the ongoing folly of one man's unacceptable desire to rebuild an empire that he witnessed collapsing in Dresden in 1989, a year when rejoicing in freedom was the common currency for those tearing the metal curtain apart. The music is assuredly dense and threatening, synthesized missiles and riff artillery pummeling their 'own' people into fiery submission. Young Russians and Ukrainians shoved fanatically into the meat grinding war machine, 'a world in flames, torched in your name'. Immediate cease fire, please.

"Empty Shore(Life part 3)" certainly espouses a sense of finality, not just for this album's run but also for the current state of global affairs with the human condition in peril. The lyrical content mirrors the fatigued vocals. Aren't we better than this? Can we not learn to live together respectfully? Must we compete constantly with aggressive ignorance? Is apathy and endless opinion mongering the new religion? Love once prevailed, it can do so again!

The repetitive melodic message is there for us to follow. We all need and deserve to live an ordinary life. Easily among the very top albums of 2024 up to now!

5 persistent grounds.

24/06/2024

Tuesday 25th June, on www.progzilla.com , has the usual 8 hours of superb music from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
8 hours of varied, but stunning, music..there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see.
The Ancient One Show is subtitled "Mixed Bag..the Newies" where all the music is from new releases which have been piling up on my desk as I bradcast some themed shows.
In TAO show, hear music from the following bands : Long Earth, Andy Nixon, Airbag, CAN, Tony Patterson & Doug Melbourne, Karfagen, Jon Anderson, HFMC - Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion, Glass Island, Agusa, Lunear, Returned To The Earth, Mangrove, Lars Fredrik Frøislie and Mindgames

11/06/2024

The Ancient One is 30 plus minutes into Show No 241 and currently playing Open by Jon Anderson. Next up on the show is Minds Of Material Men by Simon Says. www.progzilla.com and drop into the chat room.

The Show That Never Ends!

11/06/2024

STARTS IN UNDER 10 MINUTES.

Tuesday 11th June has the usual 8 hours of superb music from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
8 hours of varied, but stunning, music..there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see. Pop into the chat room and check out what is happening.
The Ancient One Show is subtitled "Tall Tales" where the tracks are on the longer side, shortest track just over 11 min and the longest nudging 33 min.
In TAO show, hear music from the following bands : Alex Carpani, Jon Anderson, Simon Says official, Pendragon, mystery, Galleon Sweden - Official, Ape Amplitude, Bodkin and Thieves' Kitchen
Tune in tomorrow night for another adventure into some stunning music.

10/06/2024

Tuesday 11th June has the usual 8 hours of superb music from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
8 hours of varied, but stunning, music..there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see. Pop into the chat room and check out what is happening.
The Ancient One Show is subtitled "Tall Tales" where the tracks are on the longer side, shortest track just over 11 min and the longest nudging 33 min.
In TAO show, hear music from the following bands : Alex Carpani, Jon Anderson, Simon Says official, Pendragon, mystery, Galleon Sweden - Official, Ape Amplitude, Bodkin and Thieves' Kitchen
Tune in tomorrow night for another adventure into some stunning music.

28/05/2024

The Ancient One Show No 240 has started on www.progzilla.com This is a Mixed Bag show..NP Martin Orford.

13/05/2024

Tuesday 14th May has the usual 8 hours of superb music from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
8 hours of varied, but stunning, music..there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see. Pop into the chat room and check out what is happening.
The Ancient One Show is subtitled "Swedish Night" where all the tracks are from Swedish bands and none are linked in any way to that musical mayhem known as Eurovision!.
In TAO show, hear music from the following bands :
Bo Hansson, Änglagård, Anekdoten, ROINE STOLT half of Anderson/Stolt, Moon Safari, Simon Says official, KAIPA, Dynamo Bliss, Karmakanic, All Traps On Earth, Blå Lotus, Salva Sweden, Trettioåriga Kriget, The Flower Kings, HFMC - Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion and A Secret River.
Pop into the chat room during the evenings entertainment and catch up with what is happening.

11/05/2024

Starting at midnight UK in a few minutes, the latest 101 Dimensions Show on www.progzilla.com. This is curated by The Ancient One and features music by Elephant9 (4), Tangerine Dream (2), Michael Rother (2), Holger Czukay and Dr Watson (2), Klaus Schultz and Pete Namlook (2), The Orb and Orbital.

11/05/2024

Today (Sat 11th May) at midday (UK) on www.progzilla.com hear the very first show broadcast by The Ancient One just over 9 (yes, 9) years ago.
Hear music from Moon Safari, Kerrs Pink Believe, IQ, Ontofield, Monarch Trail, Pink Floyd, The Emerald Dawn, Mike Kershaw, Airbag, Nth Ascension Music, Big Big Train, Genesis, Hoggwash and Andres Guazzelli👍

29/04/2024

Tuesday 30th April has the usual 8 hours of superb music on www.progzilla.com from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
8 hours of varied, but stunning, music..there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see. Pop into the chat room and check out what is happening.
The Ancient One Show is subtitled "2 From 6" where we take 6 bands, 1 album from their back catalogues and play 2 tracks from the album.
In the TAO show this week, hear the following bands: Unitopia (Australia), Fruupp (Ireland), Damanek (multinational), Phog (France), Unreal City (Italy) and Esthesis (France)
Comments to [email protected] or to The Ancient One FB page.

26/04/2024

There is an Archive show from The Ancient One tomorrow (Sat 27th April) on www.progzilla.com at midday (UK).
This show was originally aired on 31st January 2017....yes over 7 years ago.
What was Jim playing? Tune in and find out.

15/04/2024

Tuesday 16th April has the usual 8 hours of superb music on www.progzilla.com from 3 presenters who have very different takes on progressive music.
16:00 - 18:00 Brian Dades Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00 - 21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00 - 00:00 The Ancient OneThe Ancient One with Jim LawsonJim Lawson
8 hours of varied, but stunning, music..there must be loads of stuff that everyone will enjoy. Tune in and see. Pop into the chat room and check out what is happening.
The Ancient One Show is subtitled "Norwegian Night" where all the tracks are from Norwegian bands and all last between 8 and 10 minutes...except the last track, which is a shortened verion of the new Airbag single.
In TAO show, hear the following tracks :
1 Ring Van Mobius - Anitra's Dance (Intro)
2 White Willow - Helen and Simon Magus.
3 Kerrs Pink - Tidings From Some Distant Land.
4 Magic Pie - Pointless Masquerade.
5 Gazpacho - Upside Down.
6 Adventure - The Swan.
7 Fatal Fusion - Land Of The Sun.
8 Nordagust - Elegy.
9 Airbag - Never Coming Home.
10 Tusmorke - Toyens Hemmelighet.
11 The Windmill - Make me Feel.
12 Jordsjo - Til Varen.
13 Ring Van Mobius - The Mobius Ring.
14 Wobbler - 5 Rooms.
15 Mythopoeic Mind - Cottage Of Lost Play.
16 35 Tapes - Wave.
17 Caligonaut - Because We Are Not Apart.
18 The Chronicles Of Father Robin - Unicorn.
19 Airbag - Erase (excerpt from new single,)
20 Ring Van Mobius - Anitra's Dance. (Outro)
Comments to [email protected] or to The Ancient One FB page. I will not be in the chat room as Mrs TAO amd I are away celebrating our wedding anniversary. I will be back for the next show, one of the "2 from 6" series in a fortnight. Take care.

02/04/2024

NP on The Ancient One on www.progzilla.com is the 5 part suite from Rick Wakeman Music Music Reincarnate from the album No Earthly Connection.

02/04/2024

Coming up in 10 min on www.progzilla.com Show No 236 from The Ancient One. One of the Tall Tales series which feature the long tracks.
7 tracks, 5 from UK and 1 each from Germany and Sweden.

01/04/2024

Tuesday 2nd April 2024, has the following programs for your enjoyment, from 16:00 through to 00:00 UK on www.progzilla.com
16:00-18:00 Brian Dade's Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00-21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00-00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
3 presenters with their own "take" on progressive music. Listen in to 8 hours of music with something for everyone.

The show from The Ancient One is Show No 236, one of the Tall Tales ( the long tracks) series of shows.
7 tracks, with 5 from UK and 1 each from Germany and Sweden.
Hear music from Rick Wakeman Music, Abel Ganz, Fish, ARGOS, Mike Rutherford, Simon Says and Jethro Tull
TAO should be in the chatroom at 21:00 UK on Tuesday. Catch you then.
Hope you enjoy the music and if you have questions/comments then get in touch via The Ancient One FB page.

19/03/2024

Coming up next of www.progzilla.com....The Ancient One with Show No 235..a Mixed Bag of newie music. Starts at 21:00 UK.

18/03/2024

Tuesday 19th March 2024, has the following programs for your enjoyment, from 16:00 through to 00:00 UK on www.progzilla.com
16:00-18:00 Brian Dade's Progressive Perspective with Keith Quinnell
18:00-21:00 Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott
21:00-00:00 The Ancient One with Jim Lawson
3 presenters with their own "take" on progressive music. Listen in to 8 hours of music with something for everyone.
The show starting at 16:00 is new, with Keith taking over the slot previously used by Ruby Jones and extending it by an hour.
The show from The Ancient One is Show No 235, one of the Mixed Bag series of shows.
14 tracks, with 11 being new releases and the other 3, a short tribute to the music of Karl Wallender. Hear Poor Genetic Material, Times Up, Cloud People, Big Big Train, The Bardic Depths, CatalystR, World Party, Drifting Sun, Isildurs Bane, Alwanzatar, The Samurai of Prog and Mangrove.

TAO should be in the chatroom at 21:00 UK on Tuesday. Catch you then.
Hope you enjoy the music and if you have questions/comments then get in touch via The Ancient One FB page.

05/03/2024

3 oldies coming up on The Ancient One Show from CAN - Spoon Records, Kraftwerk and Amon Düül II on www.progzilla.com

05/03/2024

Now on www.progzilla.com The Ancient One with Show 234.. 9 years on Progzilla.

05/03/2024

Tonight (Tuesday 5th March) at 21:00 UK, on www.progzilla.com hear The Ancient One Show No 234.

This is the 9th anniversary show for TAO on Progzilla. A chance to play some different things.

If you join the station earlier you can hear Top of the Progs with Ruby Jones (from 5-6pm) and Am I Going Insane? with Buzz Elliott (6-9pm)

Show No 234 features Horslips, Airbag, Kompendium, Gazpacho, CAN, Kraftwerk, Amon Düül II, Moon Safari, Freedom To Glide, Wobbler and ending with more Horslips.

Join me for another 3 hr adventure in superb sounds and if you are able, drop into the chatroom.

01/03/2024

The Ancient One has another Archive Show going out tomorrow, Sat 02/03/2024, at midday UK on www.progzilla.com. This is Archive Show No 45 and was originally broadcast on 06/12/2016.
Hear Music from Grandval, Pendragon, Paidarion Finlandia Project , Citizen Cain, Unreal City, X-Panda, Loonypark, Fatal Fusion, Pink Floyd, Mark Bogert, Napier's Bones, Logos, Shaman Elephant, Bjørn Riis - artist page, Ursine Princes, Cairo and Edison's Children.

20/02/2024

On www.progzilla.com at the moment, The Ancient One playing 2 tracks from Space Shanty by Khan. Have a listen..or drop into the chatroom.