Welcome to Progressive Shores

[Avian(Admin)]

We are very proud to announce a great new show on Aural Moon - Progressive Shores, with host Sean McFee.

This musical tour of the seven seas and two hemispheres of progressive rock will be our new feature on Thursday nights, 9-11pm ET, starting April 17.

Sean:
"For many people, progressive rock is only about England in the
1970s. What those people don't realize is that the influence of
the Beatles and the progressive mindset spanned all parts of the globe, with many cultures offering their own take on the progressive rock ideas and philosophy. Progressive Shores is a show dedicated to touring the world and unearthing some of this music. Countries from Europe, the Americas and elsewhere, eras from the 70s to the present day, from styles that closely resemble progressive to those that share only a forward-looking aesthetic, each week Progressive Shores will focus on something different, in order to share new ways of looking at music with the progressive-minded."

About your host:
"Sean McFee is a Canadian citizen living in the suburbs of Chicago. A fan of progressive music of all kinds for many years, he killed time during University by pursuing a Minor in music (mainly history), and had a progressive rock radio show with local community station CKCU. Nowadays he is the editor for Expose Magazine in charge of reviews, as well as a contributing writer to the Ground and Sky review web-site. He was a chief organizer of the ProgDay festival for 2001 and 2002 until a severe pollen allergy forced him to retire, and now devotes his spare time to battling dust mites for control of his vinyl collection. Although a superhero at night, by day Sean is a mild-mannered software engineer for CommWorks Corporation, the leading manufacturer of CDMA wireless data equipment."

[the_original_ib]

Hey all,

I am very excited to be bringing programming to Aural Moon. As the show description says, my interest is in music from all over the world, and how even within the genre of progressive rock music from Italy, and Spain, and Japan, and so on can all have its own distinctive flavor (sometimes), and how different people took the new music and manipulated it in different ways.

I'll also be doing shows on the British scene when there is an appropriate theme... like maybe looking at the bands that were on a particular label at the time, or all the bands in a particular sub-genre like progressive folk.

I am *VERY* interested in feedback and ideas from listeners about shows. If you would like to hear the music from a certain country, and I have enough material to sustain a show for two hours, then I will make sure to schedule it.

I will be getting a web interface up eventually for this show as I get myself more organized. I'm still learning how everything works at Aural Moon, so those of you tuning in during Week 1 may get to hear some unplanned technical surprises as a bonus; but we'll try to keep those to a minimum .

Anyway, I am very glad to be aboard, and hope this will be a show that people want to listen to.

Regards,
Sean

[Extended Play]

Welcome to the fold Sean. Wow, I can't believe we're up to 3 exclusive shows already!

Tommy

[paul]

Glad to have you aboard, Sean! Let me know if you need some bumpers or something. :-)

[Avian(Admin)]

Hey, Paul, that would be very welcome!

Sean's show will be LIVE as well. I think I've perfected a solution for broadcasting live at high quality sound - so expect to hear my annoying voice more often on the station as well.

Have fun!

Avian