The Sound Chaser Progressive Rock Podcast is on the air. Today’s lesson is about the producers and engineers, those behind the sound desk, who make the musicians sound even better. To a large extent, these people have been as much contributors to the progressive rock sound as the musicians, so on this show and the next one, we will take a listen to the sound design aspects of the prog genre. Also, in here will be an In Memoriam sidebar for singer Neil Lockwood. All that, plus news of tours and releases on Sound Chaser. 

Playlist

[Eddie Offord]

1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Barbarian, from Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2. Yes - To Be Over, from Relayer

3. Pallas - Ark of Infinity, from The Sentinel

[Alan Parsons]

4. Pink Floyd - Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, from Atom Heart Mother

5. Ambrosia - Make Us All Aware, from Ambrosia

6. Ambrosia - Lover Arrive, from Ambrosia

IN MEMORIAM NEIL LOCKWOOD

7. Alan Parsons - I Can't Look Down, from On Air

END IN MEMORIAM

[Derek Varnals]

8. The Moody Blues - In the Beginning, from On the Threshold of a Dream

9. The Moody Blues - Lovely to See You, from On the Threshold of a Dream

10. The Moody Blues - Dear Diary, from On the Threshold of a Dream

11. The Moody Blues - Send Me No Wine, from On the Threshold of a Dream

12. The Moody Blues - To Share Our Love, from On the Threshold of a Dream

13. The Moody Blues - So Deep Within You, from On the Threshold of a Dream

14. The Web - Blues for Two T's, from Theraphosi Blondi

15. Justin Hayward - Doin' Time, from Songwriter

[Tony Visconti]

16. Strawbs - Flight, from From the Witchwood

17. Caravan - Feelin' Alright, from Better By Far

18. Gentle Giant - Wreck, from Acquiring the Taste

[Dieter Dierks]

19. Ash Ra Tempel - Day-Dream, from Starring Rosi

20. Wind - Springwind, from Seasons

21. Haze - Fast Career, from Hazecolor-Dia

[Jan Erik Kongshaug]

22. Terje Rypdal - Men of Mystery, from Descendre

23. Bill Connors - Theme to the Guardian, from Theme to the Guardian

24. Gateway - Soft, from In the Moment

[Simon Heyworth]

25. Gong - Perfect Mystery, from You

26. Steve Hillage - Fish, from Fish Rising

27. Steve Hillage - Meditation of the Snake, from Fish Rising

28. Magma - Köhntarkösz Part One, from Köhntarkösz

[Terry Brown]

29. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Bold as Love, from Axis: Bold as Love

30. Rush - Bastille Day, from Caress of Steel

31. Klaatu - We're Off You Know, from Hope

[David Hentschel]

32. Van der Graaf Generator - House With No Doors, from H to HE, Who Am the Only One

33. Renaissance - Jekyll and Hyde, from Azure D'Or

34. Genesis - Many Too Many, from ...And Then There Were Three

[Brett William Kull]

35. Chromatic Aberration - The Incidence of Memory, from The Trial of the King

36. 3RDegree - You're Fooling Yourselves, from The Long Division

37. Fractal Mirror - Tabula Rasa, from Close to Vapour