Winter Solstice 2010

No.102, aired December 22, 2010, third annual Winter Solstice special, celebrating imaginative peaks & outer darkness. Featuring further passages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, audiobook ran simultaneous with mostly Braxton’s Open Aspects, but also with other tracks. Played four Nursery Hymns by W.B. Yonder (a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson), where he sets nursery rhymes to classical hymns, thus re-uniting once popular (as opposed to classical) tunes with popular (as opposed to religious) content – more info at http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html.

Part 1

1. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / Redhead No.76 – W.B. Yonder
2. Overture To A Holiday In Berlin – Mothers Of Invention
3. Dead Christmas – Monster Magnet
4. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep / Melita – W.B. Yonder
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Only Junior Fiction – Godfried & Soy
7. Open Aspect, No.1.2 – Anthony Braxton
8. Eansy-Weensy Spider / Judas Maccabeus - W.B. Yonder
9. The Treeman – Buckethead

Part 2

1. This Old Man / Praise, My Soul - W.B. Yonder
2. All Friends & Kingdom Come – Monster Magnet
3. Open Aspect, No.6 – Anthony Braxton
4. Staggering Into The Night – Swelter
5. A Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown – Mothers Of Invention
6. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Sailing Into Neptune

No.101, aired December 15, 2010.

If Uranus was the “Aviation” this episode brings the “Naval”, the final stop on our interplanetary voyage, landing at last on the seas of Neptune. Ezra Pound’s Canto II was read with the final track from Holst’s The Planets (Canto I was read on December 26, 2008, meaning I will have read all 120 Cantos on air by 2247!) And with the Winter Solstice only a week away we continued with the audiobook of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.

Part 1

1. Gilligan’s Island – Rude Norton
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Interplanetary Love - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
4. Sea Cruise – Rude Norton
5. Ego, The Living Planet – Monster Magnet
6. The Planets, Op.32, Neptune, The Mystic – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
7. Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty And Bones – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. 1983 ... (A Merman I should Turn To Be) - Jimi Hendrix
2. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Angels Saints & Demons
3. Moon Turn The Tides ... Gently Gently Away - Jimi Hendrix
4. Neptune (The Planet) – The Bad Plus
5. Anime Eyes – The Awkward Stage

Flying Into Uranus

No.100, aired December 8, 2010.

Visited the magical cloud world of Uranus with Man Or Astro-man? (who recorded a live album from Uranus) as featured artist. Spoken word component was KRS Edstrom’s Fly Without Fear: Guided Meditations For A Relaxing Flight.

Part 1

1. Stereo Phase Test – Man Or Astro-man?
2. Zone Of Compass Reliability – Tristan Psionic
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Maximum Radiation Level – Man Or Astro-man?
5. Jeff Starship – CPC Gangbangs
6. Planet Collision – Man Or Astro-man?
7. I’m A Stranger Here – Five Man Electrical Band
8. Evil Plans Of Planet Spectra – Man Or Astro-man?
9. Lucky Star – Tristan Psionic

Part 2

1. Anoxia – Man Or Astro-man?
2. The Planets, Op.32, Uranus, The Magician – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
3. Anus Of Uranus – Klaatu
4. Techno’s Song – GWAR
5. Television Fission – Man Or Astro-man?
6. Attack From Planet Hattifatteners – Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
7. Television Man – Man Or Astro-man?
8. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic
9. Sailing - Ripcordz

GWAR’s Bloody Pit Of Horror

No.99, aired December 1, 2010.

This show was a primer for the GWAR concert at U of R’s Riddell Center on December 3 (see setlist below). Part 1 featured four songs from the classic Scumdogs Of The Universe album, and Part 2 included the entire Bloody Pit Of Horror suite from GWAR’s spanking new album of that title.

But what words? What spoken word component to set alongside the unspeakable violence that is GWAR? Hmmm ..... what else but the Holy Bible? What but the wrath of Yahweh could be bloody or arbitrary enough go head to head with the wrath of GWAR? So select passages from the crazy prophetic book of Ezekiel (see chapter nos. below) were played along with instrumental tracks between GWAR selections.

As far as the serendipitous sonic adventures that characterize Naval Aviation In Audio go, this GWAR episode turned out to be quite memorable, even more than most - so I can’t resist inserting below some (unplanned) quotes from Ezekiel that by chance provided perfect introductions to outrageously violent GWAR songs.

Part 1

1. Horror Of Yig – GWAR
2. Blah Overture – Blah Blah 666
3. The Salaminizer – GWAR
4. Dune – Bob Evans -- Ezekiel (Ch.21)(!)
5. Dogs – Blah Blah 666 – Ezekiel (Ch.21 con’t, Vlad The Impaler introduced with “Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end” 21:29)
6. Vlad The Impaler – GWAR
7. The Girl With The Mechanical Neck Movements – Evil Dick -- Ezekiel (Ch.22, Maggots introduced with “As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof” 22:21)
8. Maggots – GWAR -– Commercial break introduced with “These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword” 23:10).

Part 2

1. Cielito Lindo – Blah Blah 666
2. Bloody Pit Of Horror, Pt.1, Zombies, March! – GWAR
3. Home Sexuality – Blah Blah 666 -- Ezekiel (Ch.24)
4. Bloody Pit Of Horror, Pt.2, Come The Carnivor – GWAR
5. Caffeinated Coffee – Bob Evans -- Ezekiel (Ch.25, Gathering Of Ghouls introduced with “I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen” 25:7)
6. Bloody Pit Of Horror, Pt.3, Gathering Of Ghouls – GWAR
7. Expt. In 5:1 – Evil Dick -- Ezekiel (Ch.25, beginning with “I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD” 25:7)
8. Paso – Blah Blah 666 -- Ezekiel (Ch.25 con’t)
9. Bloody Pit Of Horror, Pt.4, Storm Coming – GWAR
10. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
11. Sick Of You – GWAR


GWAR setlist at Riddell Center, December 3/10

1. Horror Of Yig
2. Damnation Under God
3. Hail to Genocide
4. Let Us Slay
5. Vlad the Impaler
6. Decay of Grandeur
7. The Private Pain of Sawborg Destructo
8. Crack In The Egg
9. Maggots
10. Bring Back the Bomb
11. Metal Metal Land
12. Pure As The Arctic Snow
13. Beat You To Death
14. Salamanizer
15. Encore: Zombie March / Come The Carnivor / A Gathering of Ghouls / Storm is Coming
16. Sick of You

Notes: This was my fourth GWAR concert, and with each one it gets more difficult to enjoy both the music and the visual spectacle on stage because of the larger crowds. I usually forgo the visual component wherever it interferes with enjoyment of the music. I leave my glasses at home & find a good spot towards the fringes of the pit for dancing. So I didn’t always follow the onstage drama very closely, I think there was some elaborate plot involving the enormous Sawborg Destructo & Bonecrusher. A funny moment was Lady Gaga appearing with some crappy dance music then the band exuberantly pumped out their demonic-utopic ode to Metal Metal Land - & killed Lady Gaga, I assume - I probably still have her blood on my shirt. I could never even name a highlight from this set – I love all of these songs & relished every riff, every solo, every word of Oderous’s lovely poetry & every spurt of vile fluids. I loved Cuttlefish of Cthulhu’s long ejaculation during (I think) Zombies March & there is something absolutely sublime about hearing, after all the metal, the classic rock sing-along of Sick Of You in a thick crowd of bloodied GWAR fans while being shot with a blood cannon (presumably filled with the blood of the victims of previous concerts).

Saturnalia

No. 98, aired November 24, 2010, continuing the interplanetary voyage with a visit to the home planet of Sun Ra, featuring music & poetry by the late modern jazz genius & cosmic explorer. Also, since Saturnalia was the Roman harvest festival, I played tracks from Shredded Wheat, a compilation released by Harvest King records.

Part 1

1. We Travel The Spaceways – Sun Ra
2. Fuck My Life – Rehashed
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Saturn – Sun Ra
5. Go Home Groseph – Kleins96
6. Everything Is Space – Sun Ra
7. Oye! – Chan Chan
8. The Planets, Op.32, Saturn, The Bringer Of Old Age – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) -- Heart Of Darkness (continuing from the Audiobook) – Joseph Conrad

Part 2

1. Unquestioned Conspirators – Failed States
2. Celestial Road – Sun Ra -- Cosmic Equation (poem read on air) – Sun Ra
3. Badges – Invasion
4. Saturn – John Coltrane
5. Otherness Blue – Sun Ra -- The Endless Realm / If I Told You (2 poems read on air) – Sun Ra

Two-Year Anniversary Special

No.97, aired November 17, 2010, featuring selections (short snippets + some longer tracks) from Frank Zappa’s Lather album (& related material), and only the best of musical artists that I had no knowledge of before the past 12 months of radio programming.

Part 1

1. Lather (Intro, 1st :25 of CD 1, Track 1) – Frank Zappa
2. Ain’t Got Time To Waste – Red Hot Lovers
3. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT – Prophet’s Philosophy / Conscience Ahg Heng Dem – Capleton
4. Whatever Happened To All The Fun In The World – Frank Zappa
5. Crazy Nights – 3 Inches Of Blood
6. Scissorhands – Les Georges Leningrad
8. Wait A Minute – Frank Zappa
9. Imeltime Of The Season – Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice
10. Revised Music For Guitar & Low-Budget Orchestra – Frank Zappa
11. Alpha Punk – Ripcordz

Part 2

1. Lather (alternate intro, 1st :32 of CD 4, Track 5) – Frank Zappa
2. Teenage Crimewalk – CPC Gangbangs
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. The Rook – Sheavy
5. RDNZL – Frank Zappa
6. Midnight Movie Star – The Diodes
7. Eye Of The Vortex – Helios Creed
8. Tryin’ To Grow A Chin (1st :22 of Lather CD1, Track 7, then cut to Sheik Yerboutti version of same song)
9. Sailing - Ripcordz

Remembering War

No.96, aired November 10, 2010, featuring the first disc of Blood On The Risers: An Airborne Soldier’s Thirty-Five Months In Vietnam, an audiobook by John Leppelman. Dedicated to remembering all the wars currently raging in the world.

Part 1

1. Fuck The Border – Propagandhi
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Memory War – Asian Dub Foundation
4. The People Is Never Corrupt – Hylozoists
5. War? – System Of A Down
6. Holy War In Your Pants – Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra
7. Albright Monument Baghdad – Propagandhi

Part 2

1. Raining Bloody Men – Johnny Rockstar
2. Raining Blood - Slayer
3. 12 Minutes For George – Hession / Wilkinson / Fell
4. Boost No War – Capleton
5. Guantanamo Bay – Ripcordz
6. The Crippled Giant – Hylozoists
7. Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes - Propagandhi

Jumping For Jove

No.95, aired November 3, 2010, continuing the interplanetary journey with a trip to Jupiter, including a live reading of Canto 18 from Dante's Paradiso.

Part 1

1. Rocket Number 9 – Sun Ra
2. Get Away From It All – Northwest Company
3. The Planets, Op.32, Jupiter, The Bringer Of Joy – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) -- Paradiso Canto 18 – Dante Alighieri
4. Space Weiner – Lungbutter
5. Art Of The State – Dog Eat Dogma
6. Jupiter – John Coltrane
7. Outer Space – The Radfords

Part 2

1. Buy The Moons Of Jupiter – Acid Mothers Temple & The Drowning Paraiso U.F.O.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Voodoo Chile – Jimi Hendrix
4. Jupiter Variation – John Coltrane
5. That’s Why I’m An Athiest – D.O.A.
6. Sailing – Ripcordz

Halloween – Nightmare At 20,000 Feet

No.94, aired October 27, 2010. Halloween special, featuring the radio play version of the Twilight Zone episode Nightmare At 20,000 Feet, including four tracks from Frank Zappa’s Jazz From Hell album.

Part 1

1. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. The Beltway Bandits – Frank Zappa
4. Toccata & Fugue In D Minor (Toccata)– J.S. Bach
5. Damp Ankles – Frank Zappa
6. Premonition Of Pain – 3 Inches Of Blood
7. John McLaughlin – Miles Davis
8. Unbidden – Forbidden Dimension
9. Jazz From Hell – Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. My Two Lovin’ Hands – Forbidden Dimension
2. Toccata & Fugue In D Minor (Fugue)– J.S. Bach
3. Axes Of Evil – 3 Inches Of Blood
4. Hylozoists – Hylozoists
5. Maggot Brain – Funkadelic
6. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic
7. God’s Bloody Acre – Forbidden Dimension

Next Stop Mars

No.93, aired October 20, 2010.

Spoken word was from an episode of the Twilight Zone radio drama titled "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up."

Probably one of the better episodes in terms of fortuitous synchronicity, one example being Coltrane's 10-minute tenor sax / drums duet with Rashied Ali (from Interstellar Space, 1967) being introduced with the words "If somebody is truly from outer space, they'll just go through the walls anyway, won't they?"

Part 1

1. Martian Graverobber – Forbidden Dimension
2. The Planets, Op.32, Mars, The Bringer Of War – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
3. Photographs From Mars – Diodes
4. Mars – John Coltrane
5. Red Rubber Ball – Diodes

Part 2

1. King Of Mars – Monster Magnet
2. Next Stop Mars – Sun Ra
3. Child Star – Diodes
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. I Control, I Fly – Monster Magnet

Small, Hot, Fast & D.O.A.

No.92, aired October 13, 2010.

This show was a primer for the D.O.A. show at the Republik on Thursday night. Their set included To Hell And Back, World War 3, R.C.M.P., The Enemy, This Machine Kills Fascists/Human Bomb, That’s Why I’m An Athiest, I Live In A Car, Waiting For You, Fucked Up Stevie, War (Edwin Starr), The Prisoner, Disco Sucks, Fuck You, The Hockey Song (Stompin Tom Conners), and probably a couple of others that I can’t remember now.

In this episode we continued the interplanetary voyage by visiting Mercury – the first six tracks in Part 2 all pay tribute to the swift & small in some way. As Sun Ra & John Coltrane never (to my knowledge) visited Mercury, the space theme was augmented with three tracks from Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction and Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s Space Guitar.

Part 1

1. Waiting For You – D.O.A.
2. Space Guitar – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
3. Liar For Hire – D.O.A.
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Science Fiction – Ornette Coleman
6. Set Them Free – D.O.A.
7. The Jungle Is A Skyscraper – Ornette Coleman
8. Police Brutality – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Hot Little Mama - Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
2. Mercury – Mahjongg
3. Disco Sucks – D.O.A.
4. Mercury, The Winged Messenger – Gustov Holst (comp.) / Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra -- Paradiso Canto 5 – Dante Alighieri
5. Freewheel Burning – Judas Priest
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye – Queen
7. Street Woman – Ornette Coleman -- Paradiso Canto 7 – Dante Alighieri
8. D.O.A. – D.O.A.
9. The Prisoner – D.O.A.
10. 13 – D.O.A.

Radiothon Spectacular

No.91, aired October 6, 2010. With words from Dr. Wayne Dyer’s audiobook Peace For All Of Us, which provided a few moments of nightmarish serendipty, particularly as Dr. Dyer discussed war-time xenophobia to the tune of Les Georges Leningrad’s horror-shrieks in Ennio Morricone.

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Part 1

1. Dang – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2. That Ol’ G Minor Thing Again – Frank Zappa
3. Skulls In The Closet – Les Georges Leningrad
4. Here’s To The Punks – Ripcordz
5. Great Day – Storm Inc.
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Captain Fortune – Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
8. Stop And Listen – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Part 2

1. Man-Size Sextet – PJ Harvey
2. No More Headcheese – Hanson Brothers
3. Dun Pressed On – Evil Dick
4. 50 FT Queenie – PJ Harvey
5. Ditch - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
6. Ennio Morricone - Les Georges Leningrad
7. Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus – Frank Zappa
8. Hardcore Jollies – Funkadelic
9. Sailing – Ripcordz

Nightflight To Venus!

No.90, aired September 29, 2010, continuing the celestial voyage to the planet Venus, with a live reading of Canto VIII of Dante’s Paradiso. No I didn’t play Boney M.

Part 1

1. Speed Load’er – Red Hot Lovers
2. Dancing In The Sun – Sun Ra
3. Rocket Number Nine – Sun Ra
4. Shivers Down My Spine – King Khan & The Shrines
5. Negasonic Teenage Warhead – Monster Magnet
6. The Planets, Op.32, No.2, Venus, The Bringer Of Peace – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
7. I Wanna Be A Girl – King Khan & The Shrines

Part 2

1. Vegas Knights – Red Hot Lovers
2. Venus – John Coltrane
3. Destination Venus – Man ... Or Astroman?
4. Big Eyed Beans From Venus – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer
6. Venus In Furs – Monster Magnet

A Trip To The Moon

No.89, aired September 22, 2010, with readings from Cantos II & III from Dante’s Paradiso, where he visited the Moon and talked to the Spirits that live there.

Part 1

1. Moondrunk (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
2. Moonshine (Friend Of Mine) – Five Man Electrical Band
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Moonlight On Vermont – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Colombine (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
6. Moonlight Instrumental – David Vanervelde
7. Beyond The Moon – Max Webster
8. The Dandy (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
9. Distracted By The Moon – Blah Blah 666

Part 2

1. Light Reflected Off The Oceans Of The Moon – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. A Chlorotic Laundery Maid (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
3. Ghoul Next Door – Forbidden Dimension
4. Duke Of Prunes / Amnesia Vivace / The Duke Regains His Chops – The Mothers Of Invention
5. Wolves And Werewolves – The Pack A.D.
6. Valse de Chopin (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
7. Werewolf - Five Man Electrical Band
8. Blah Overture – Blah Blah 666
9. Annabel – Forbidden Dimension

Babylonion Nod Scene

No.88, aired September 15, 2010, featuring Chapters 17 – 21 of the book of Ezekiel from the Commuter’s Audio Bible.

Part 1

1. Pill Shovel – Monster Magnet
2. A Vaquero’s Dream – Freddie Pelletier
3. Feel Good Hit Of The Summer – Queens Of The Stone Age
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. One Sin – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
6. Our Prayor – Albert Ayler
7. Medicine – Monster Magnet
8. Change Has Come – Albert Ayler

Part 2

1. The Slippery Slope – Bob Evans
2. Nod Scene – Monster Magnet
3. Truth Is Marching In – Albert Ayler
4. Neighbourhood Butcher – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Sailing - Ripcordz

Songs Of Innocence

No. 87, aired September 8, 2010, featuring live readings of William Blake’s Songs Of Innocence.

Part 1

1. Haiku I – Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman (harp) -– Introduction To Songs Of Innocence (“Piping down the valleys wild”) – William Blake
2. Pied Piper – Not Going To Vegas
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Jacques And Madeleine – Run Chico Run
5. Hyperprism – Edgar Varese -- The Shepherd / The Echoing Green / The Lamb – William Blake
6. Mr. Highway Man – Howlin Wolf
7. Prophesy – Eugene Chadbourne -- The Little Black Boy / The Chimney Sweeper – William Blake
8. Fairweather – Shikaska

Part 2

1. On Permanence - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Little Boy Lost / Little Boy Found / Lauging Song – William Blake
2. Howlin Wolf Boogie – Howlin Wolf
3. No Feelings – Cheerleader 666
4. Noon Harras – Derek Bailey with John Zorn & William Parker -- Cradle Song / The Divine Image / Holy Thursday / Night / Nurse’s Song - William
Blake
5. Sweet Little 16 – Chuck Berry
6. Ceremonial Music - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman (harp) -- A Dream / On Another’s Sorrow – William Blake
7. A Real Mother For Ya – Johnny Guitar Watson

Half A Heart

No.86, aired September 1, 2010

This episode was cut short due to a family medical emergency. An interesting episode all the same, featuring segments from Chapter 2 of Heart Of Darkness with Xenakis & Arab-Canadian punks The Sarcastic Mannequins - a morbid serendipity was acheived as the Mannequins were heard yelling "Tandoori!" as Marlowe (the narrator of Heart Of Darkness) contemplated why his shipmates were not eating him.

Music heard between 11:25 and midnight were supplied by Phil, CJTR’s most flexible DJ.

Part 1

1. Rule No.1 – Sarcastic Mannequins
2. Things I Lack – Pillar
3. Kai – Iannis Xenakis
4. Teufelskind – Dog Eat Dogma
5. 4 Arabs In A Red Fury - Sarcastic Mannequins
6. Meganegativity - Dog Eat Dogma
7. Magic – Alien Sex Fiend

Visions Of A(Nightare)ica

No.85, aired August 25, 2010. Featuring on-air readings of the poetry of Winnipeg’s Werner “Van” Harder.

Part 1

1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy – The Mothers Of Invention
2. My American Partner – King Cobb Steelie -- The Unwelcome Critic – Werner “Van” Harder
3. Wake Up America – Dayglo Abortions
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. America The Beautiful – D.O.A.
6. Hatian Fight Song – Charles Mingus -- I Am Dick Dick / Afghanistan; Iraq; Iran (?): Some (Viet)Nambulism (we’ve sleepwalked through this nightmare before) - Werner “Van” Harder
7. Everything I Touch – American Flamewhip

Part 2

1. American Society – L7
2. Sad Statue – System Of A Down
3. It Can’t Happen Here – The Mothers Of Invention
4. Ronald McRaygun – Dayglo Abortions
5. Americanized – GWAR
6. Once Upon A Time There Was A Holding Corporation Called Old America – Charles Mingus -- Jumping Jingoism: Flag-nostic / Calamity Gain - Werner “Van” Harder
7. American Dream – Cat Rapes Dog

1967! Drums Of Passion

No.84, aired August 18, 2010, featuring avant-garde, jazz & rock music from 1967, plus the 22-minute Drums Of Passion by Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson, an incredible exploration of the percussive capabilities of the electric guitar & baritone sax. Also continued with Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Rimb Nugget – Ugly Ducklings
2. 1967 – Dayglo Abortions
3. Song 1 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
4. Eyes – The Collectors
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Leo – John Coltrane
7. Nothin’ – Ugly Ducklings
8. Song 2 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
9. Song 3 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
10. Song 4 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen

Part 2

1. Abba Zaba – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. Drums Of Passion - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
3. Listen To Me – One Way Street

All OUT

No.83, aired August 11, 2010.

Featuring exclusively tracks with the word “Out” in the title, except the opening song, which was supposed to be The Hanson Brothers’ Duke It Out, but my notes were messed up so that song had to wait until the end.

Also featured a live reading of KRYATL, a strange but potent brew of words by one Out To Lunch.

Part 1

1. It’s A Secret – Hanson Brothers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Jerk It Out – Caesars
4. Get Out Of My Life – D.O.A.
5. I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore – Ugly Ducklings
6. Extension Out – Sun Ra –- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
7. Outta Harm`s Way – King Khan & The Shrines
8. Lashed Out And Gashed – Pericardium
9. Sort It Out – Caesars

Part 2

1. Check It Out Dude, Get Ready, Cuz We're Rock 'N' Roll Rebels Cruisin' for Chicks in Our Metal Machine, Baby, All Night Long, Alright, Oh Yeah! (A Rock Anthem) Dude. (We Really Know How to Rock.) – Lungbutter
2. Demons Out! – Art Brut
3. Out To Lunch – Eric Dolphy -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
4. (I`m Gonna) Kick You Out – Caesars
5. Looking Outward – Sun Ra -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
6. Duke It Out – Hanson Brothers
7. Noise [#] [Outtake] – Diodes

Ezekiel's Wheels

No.82, another double episode, this time featuring the first 15 chapters of the Book of Ezekiel on audiobook (chapters indicated below), including the opening prophetic vision of cherubim on wheels - the theme of motors, driving & speed followed from there. Aired August 4, 2010.

Part 1

1. Spokes For The Wheel Of Torment – Buckethead -- Ch.1
2. Theme From Peter Gunn – Bob Evans -- Ch.1 (con’t)
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Til The Wheels Fall Off – L7
5. Circle With Tangents 1 – John Beckwith -- Ch.6
6. The Wheel – GWAR
7. Ornithology – Jon Ballantyne -- Ch.2-3
8. Son The Father – Fucked Up -- Ch.3 (con’t)

Part 2

1. New Realms of Vibration – Hylozoists -- Ch.5
2. Devil’s Speedway – D.O.A.
3. Golden Seal – Fucked Up -- Ch.4
4. I’ll Drive – Motocaster
5. R.S.V.P. - Jon Ballantyne -- Ch.7-8
6. The Hammer – Motorhead

Part 3

1. Angelicus – Delerium –- Ch.10
2. Fast And Frightning – L7
3. Circle With Tangents 3 – John Beckwith -- Ch.11
4. Fast And Loose – Motorhead
5. The People Is Never Corrupt – Hylozoists -- Ch.9
6. Oblivion – Motocaster
7. Circle With Tangents 2 – John Beckwith -- Ch.12
8. Circle With Tangents 3 – John Beckwith -- Ch.12 (con’t)

Part 4

1. Escape Wheel – Buckethead
2. Circle With Tangents 4 – John Beckwith -- Ch.13
3. Right On Thru – L7
4. Serenity - Jon Ballantyne -- Ch.14-15
5. Fire, Fire – Motorhead
6. M4 – Derek Bailey
7. Immortal Corrupter - GWAR

Heart Of Darkness, Heart Of Pain

No.81, a double episode (10pm – 12am) featuring more passages from Chapters 1 & 2 of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Aired July 28, 2010.

Part 1

1. Doo’s – Evil Dick
2. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. 6:00 News – Thinktank Fish
5. Feio – Miles Davis
6. Hatred – Queasy

Part 2

1. Oh My God! – Headstones
2. From The Seven Days: Set Sail For The Sun – Karlheinz Stockhausen

Part 3

1. How Many More Years – Howlin’ Wolf
2. Losing Control – Headstones
3. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down – Miles Davis
4. From The Eastern Gate 6 – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
5. Children Of The Grave – Black Sabbath

Part 4

1. Heart Of Darkness – Headstones
2. From The Seven Days: Communion – Karlheinz Stockhausen
3. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf
4. Sailing - Ripcordz

Utilitarian Donuts (part 2)

No.80, featuring more readings from Utilitarian Donuts No.1. For information on how to order a copy, go to http://utilitariandonuts.com/.

Part 1

1. Hylozoists – Hylozoists -- Drifting – Donna Burks
2. Pachuco Cadaver – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
3. Think Locally Fuck Globally – Gogol Bordello
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Gasoline – American Flamewhip
6. Jan Jan – Grant Greene -- RAW Manifesto (Pts.1&2) – Michael Bell, David Cawood, Donna Burks, et al.
7. Mammal Beats – Les Georges Leningrad

Part 2

1. Pena - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. 903/2 – ISKRA -- RAW Manifesto (Pt.3) / Regina Eats Itself – Zink Oxeye
3. Here’s To The Punks – Ripcordz
4. Sangue Puro - Les Georges Leningrad -- and DNA – W.B. Yonder / Salvolutionary Frivolatry: Being anAbOvoriginal SinThesis – Paul Friesen
5. Oh No! Bruno! - Nomeansno

Utilitarian Donuts (part 1)

No.79, the first of two episodes to feature on-air readings from Issue no.1 of Utilitarian Donuts, Regina’s newest magazine of radical poetry & politics. For information on how to order a copy, go to http://utilitariandonuts.com/.

Part 1

1. All I Want Is Everything – Lungbutter
2. Sound Baffle – King Cobb Steelie -- No Mercy – Donna Burks
3. Markers - Lungbutter
4. A Phone Booth In The Middle Of Nowhere – Sheavy
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Ghetto Child – James Blood Ulmer
7. Farid – Grant Greene -- The Anti-Semantic - Paul Burnside / The Heavy Weight – W.B. Yonder / Ectopic? – Paul Friesen

Part 2

1. M10 – Derek Bailey -- Mary Shepard Letter (to Robert Betteridge)
2. Dominion of Deceipt – 3 Inches Of Blood
3. Hat And Beard – Eric Dolphy -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max – Robert Betteridge
4. Satisfy (Story Of My Life) – James Blood Ulmer
5. The Real Thing – Tim Postgage –- Travelodge Hotel – W.B. Yonder / Litany Of Complaints – Paul Burnside
6. Jackhammer – Anvil

Infected Mushroom

Three or four weeks ago I was having lunch in Wascana Park and found in the bushes several CDs covered in mud & moisture & mould & did what any good DJ would do, salvaging everything that held some promise. The result was the addition of the following five titles to my playlist:

The Trinity – Sean Paul
Fist of God – MSTRKRFT
Collected – Massive Attack
Hellbilly Deluxe – Rob Zombie
Vicous Delicious – Infected Mushroom

So Episode no.78 was a bit of a departure for Naval Aviation In Audio, featuring tracks from all five of these dance-pop albums.

This episode also featured the opening Chapter of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness on Audiobook.

Part 1

1. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT
2. Motherless Child – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. The Trinity – Sean Paul
4. Perversion 99 – Rob Zombie
5. Vicious Delicious – Infected Mushroom
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Superbeast – Rob Zombie
8. Vuvuvu – MSTRKRFT

Part 2

1. Click Click - MSTRKFRT
2. Angel – Massive Attack
3. Mechanical Man – CPC Gangbangs
4. St. Hubert - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Heavyweight - Infected Mushroom

Strange Celestial Roads ... or Nationalist Fervor?

Episode no.77 celebrated the height of summer by playing all three tracks from Sun Ra’s 1979 jazz-rock exploration Strange Celestial Roads. To add a parallel strange journey, Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness was played along with Sun Ra, sometimes in the foreground, as if Conrad was on stage with the band, and sometimes receding to the backround, as if you were in a jazz club and were hearing Conrad telling his dark tale at the next table.

And to acknowledge July 1 (which began at the end of the program), we heard some national-themed Canadian punk rock.

For more information on W.B. Yonder (a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson)’s Oh Canada or for free downloads, visit: http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html

Part 1

1. Oh Canada – W.B. Yonder
2. Oh Canaduh – Cub (originally by The Subhumans)
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. We Hate The Bloody Queen – Mudhoney (originally by the Queen Haters)
5. Celestial Road – Sun Ra
6. Proud To Be A Canadian – Dayglo Abortions
7. Say – Sun Ra

Part 2

1. Maple Leaf Rag – Saxology (Scott Joplin)
2. Truck Stop Nun – Von Zippers (originally by Da Shyme)
3. I Am Canadian – D.O.A.
4. I’ll Wait For You – Sun Ra
5. Oh Canaduh – The Subhumans

Exodus

Episode no.76, aired June 9, 2010.

Featured most of the first 13 Chapters of the book of Exodus from the Commuters’ Audio Bible (chapters played noted below), plus several tracks from Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1977 Exodus album and all four tracks from D.O.A.’s 1985 E.P. Don’t Turn Yer Back On Desperate Times.

Part 1

1. Prelude – Judas Priest -- Ch.1
2. Round & Round I – John Beckwith
3. Natural Mystic – Bob Marley & The Wailers
4. Man Who Almost Was – Hylozoists -- Ch.2
5. Tyrant – Judas Priest
6. The Call Of Ktulu – Metallica -- Ch.3,4
7. Round & Round II – John Beckwith -- Ch.4 (con't)
8. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
9. Burn It Down – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. For Starters – John Beckwith -- Ch.5
2. The Heathen – Bob Marley & The Wailers
3. Lovers Become Lovers – Hylozoists -- Ch.7
4. A Season In Hell – D.O.A.
5. Green Dolphin Street – Eric Dolphy -- Ch.8
6. Underdog World Strike – Gogol Bordello

Part 3

1. Round & Round III – John Beckwith -- Ch.9
2. Round & Round IV – John Beckwith -- Ch.9 (con't)
3. Race Riot – D.O.A.
4. Guiltiness – Bob Marley & The Wailers
5. Glad To Be Unhappy – Eric Dolphy -- Ch.10
6. Round & Round V – John Beckwith -- Ch.11
7. Creeping Death – Metallica

Part 4

1. General Strike – D.O.A.
2. Round & Round VI – John Beckwith -- Ch.12
3. la fin du monde – Hylozoists -- Ch.12 (con't)
4. Exodus – Bob Marley & The Wailers
5. 245 – Eric Dolphy -- Ch.13
6. One Love / People Get Ready – Bob Marley & The Wailers

The Mountain Ash Is Covered With Spawn

Episode no.75, aired June 2, 2010.

Featured an on-air reading of How I Know The Sky Is A River: selected and new shorter poems 1978 – 1998 by Saskatchewan poet Allan Safarik. To obtain copies of recent books by Allan & other great Hagios Press poets, visit http://hagiospress.com/.

Part 1

1. Write A Song – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2. Journey To The End Of Night – Hylozoists
3. Telluride – Motocaster
4. Hearst – King Cobb Steelie -- poems by Allan Safarik (see below)
5. T.I.M.E.B.O.M.B. – (International) Noise Conspiracy
6. Alternate Vision – Jon Ballantyne -- poems by Allan Safarik (see below)

Part 2

1. Plants And Rags – PJ Harvey
2. From The Eastern Gate 3 – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Rachel – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4. Joe – PJ Harvey
5. Sacred Love – Bad Brains
6. Bad Information – King Cobb Steelie -- poems by Allan Safarik (see below)
7. Dogs Part 2 – Motocaster
8. Sailing – Ripcordz

Poems read on-air from How I Know The Sky Is A River:

Crab / Saskatoon / Octopus / Mad Dogs Are Beautiful / Red Parrots In the Blue Jungle / The Human Factor / The Afterthought / Icarus / Between a Man and a Woman Was a Sail of Skin / Yellow and the Grave Sea / Two Eyes of the Faithless Dog / Deer / Tale of the Firefly / After the Rainbow / Rock River Poem / Meat in the Silo / Horticulture / The Duality of One / Pastoral / God Loves Us Like Earthworms Love Wood / Tree in Moonlight / The Debt / Yellow Bird / Mimicry of Birds at War

Wrong versus Right

Episode no.74, aired May 26, 2010.

Featured “right” & “wrong” songs, plus select chapters [18-24] from Leviticus, the Old Testament book of law and priestly ritual, which provided hilarious moral commentary as various sexual taboos & severe punishments were described to a backing of Charles Mingus’s Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces from The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

Leviticus 21:9 provided some rather scary (and unintentional!) congruence as the text ordered the burning of promiscuous daughters of priests to the tune of Queen’s Of The Stone Age’s Burn The Witch.

Part 1

1. Two Lips, Two Lungs And One Tongue – Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Absolutely Right – Five Man Electrical Band
4. I’m Right, You’re Wrong – D.O.A.
5. Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces – Charles Mingus
6. Not Right – The Stooges
7. Burn The Witch – Queens Of The Stone Age
8. III Meditation – Pericardium
9. I Am Wrong – Nomeansno

Part 2

1. Corrupted - Pericardium
2. I Meditation – Pericardium
3. Ain’t No Right – Jane’s Addiction
4. From The Eastern Gate I – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
5. Ultimate Everything – Monster Magnet
6. II Meditation – Pericardium
7. You Were Right – Built To Spill
8. The Right Stuff – Monster Magnet

Carnival

Episode no.73, aired May 12, 2010, 10 pm to midnight. A double episode.

Featured a playing of the entire Funhouse album, released by The Stooges in 1970, plus several tracks from Carnivocal: a Celebration of Sound Poetry, and an on-air reading of bpNichol’s The Martyrology of Saint And.

Part 1

1. Land of the Freak – King Khan and the Shrines
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Ubu Hubbub – Christian Bok
4. Loose – The Stooges
5. The Loose – Jon Ballantyne
6. 60 Revolutions – Gogol Bordello
7. Dirt – The Stooges
8. Sodom City – Red Hot Lovers

Part 2

1. Mange Avec Tes Doigts – Les Georges Leningrad
2. The Carney – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. The Future For Les – Les Georges Leningrad -- The Martyrology of Saint And - bpNichol
4. 1970 – The Stooges
5. “A” Yantra – First Draft
6. Annabel – Forbidden Dimension

Part 3

1. Down In The Street – The Stooges
2. Monorails & Satellites – Sun Ra
3. Tease Me, Please Me – Anvil
4. Carnival Overture – Oskar Morawetz
5. Restlessness – First Draft
6. T.V. Eye – The Stooges

Part 4

1. Sigh About This – Lederhosen Lucil
2. The Alter Destiny – Sun Ra
3. Funhouse – The Stooges
4. L.A. Blues – The Stooges
5. On Dissecting The Larynx – W. Mark Sutherland
6. Lonely Lonely – Les Georges Leningrad
7. Start Wearing Purple – Gogol Bordello
8. Sailing – Ripcordz

More Birds & Guitars

Episode no. 72, airing April 28, 2010, revisited the combination of guitars & birds from no.9, featuring real birds this time rather than poems about birds, with guitar solos from various artists mixed with the Peterson Field Guide of Western Bird Songs, an audiobook produced by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

Part 1

1. A Real Mother For Ya – Johnny Guitar Watson
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Dogs – Blah Blah 666
4. One That All Plectrum Guitar Players Can Relate To The Ending Of – Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
5. Psychic Vacuum – Voivod
6. Slapshot – Tim Postgate
7. Snow – The Pack A.D.

Part 2

1. Open Country Joy – Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
3. Letter To Derek - Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
4. M12 – Derek Bailey

Dead Poets II

No. 71, aired April 21, 2010 – picks up where No.69 left off, in the early 20th Century literary zeitgeist, featuring historic recordings of poets reading from their work.

Part 1

1. Resume – Dorothy Parker
2. Death To The Sickoids - Subhumans
3. Zenooner – Evil Dick -- Song For The Last Act – Louise Bogan
4. I Don’t Love You - Dishrags
5. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Marching Song – Pointed Sticks
7. Syrmos (for 18 Strings) – Iannis Xenakis / Ensemble Resonanz -- anyone lived in a pretty how town / as freedom is a breakfastfood – E.E. Cummings / Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies – Edna St. Vincent Millay
8. Kill, Kill, This Is Pop – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Big Shot – Exxotone
2. Snog With My Drums – Hession, Wilkinson, Fell -- Afternoon – Dorothy Parker
3. Wirehead – Wasted Lives
4. Ballad Of Otis Twelvepersons - Hession, Wilkinson, Fell –- The Dream – Louise Bogan / Dark Symphoney V & VI / An Ex-Judge At The Bar – Melvin B. Tolson
5. Fun While It Lasts – Active Dog
6. Doo’s – Evil Dick -- Resume – Dorothy Parker
7. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Son Of Mostly Monsters

No. 70, Aired April 14, 2010, a double epidsode.

Another Monter Movie-themed show, this time featuring several spine-tingling chapters from Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Lord 13 (track 3 from Tab...25) – Monster Magnet
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Take My Life ... Please – Dog Eat Dogma (from Dogzilla)
4. The Shape vs. Buckethead – Buckethead
5. Equatorial – Edgar Varese
6. Bastard Is As Bastard Does – Monster Voodoo Machine

Part 2

1. Longhair (track 2 from Tab...25) – Monster Magnet
2. Scissorhands – Les Georges Leningrad
3. Nocturnal – Edgar Varese

Part 3

1. 25 (track 1 from Tab...25) – Monster Magnet

Part 4

1. It Can’t Happen Here – The Mothers Of Invention
2. Ani Can Sing – Guerrilla Funk Monster
3. From The Eastern Gate II – Alexina Louie
4. Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet – The Mothers Of Invention
5. From The Eastern Gate III – Alexina Louie

Dead Poets Dug Up

Episode no. 69 took us back into the 20th Century Zeitgeist, featuring a digging up of the dead in recordings from the Poetry Speaks audio anthology of famous poets reading from their work. Aired April 7, 2010.

Part 1

1. Four Pieces For Violin And Piano, Op.7, I.Sehr langsam – Anton Webern -- The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
2. The Gravedigger – SNFU
3. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Four Pieces For Violin And Piano, Op.7, II.Rasch – Anton Webern -- The Oven Bird – Robert Frost
5. Messiah Ward – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -- Nothing Gold Can Stay – Robert Frost
6. Four Pieces For Violin And Piano, Op.7, III.Sehr langsam - Anton Webern -- Cool Tombs – Carl Sandburg
7. A Coffin Named Desire – Forbidden Dimension
8. Four Pieces For Violin And Piano, Op.7, IV.Bewegt – Anton Webern -- Grass – Carl Sandburg
9. Everything Is Alive – Beef Terminal -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly II, IV, and V – Ezra Pound
10. Martian Gravedigger – Forbidden Dimension

Part 2

1. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, IV.Sehr langsam – Anton Webern -- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself – Wallace Stevens
2. Death Was Too Kind – Subhumans
3. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, I.Heftig bewegt – Anton Webern -- The Red Wheelbarrow – William Carlos Williams
4. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, II.Sehr langsam – Anton Webern -- XLV from The Cantos – Ezra Pound
5. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, IV.Sehr langsam – Anton Webern
6. III Meditation – Pericardium
7. The Dead Speak From Beyond – Pericardium
8. II Meditation – Pericardium -- The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock – T.S. Eliot
9. Fifty-two Incorporated – Tinkertoy -- The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock (continued)
10. Five Movements For String Quartet, Op.5, V.In zarter Bewegung – Anton Webern -- The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock (continued)
11. Cemetary – Headstones

Humpty Dumpty Contrafacta

No. 68, aired March 31, 2010 – an Easter special.

Featured live readings of poetry from Reginan Hendrik Markus’s Phenomena No Hindrance. Copies are available for purchase in the Sask Lit. Section at Book & Briar Patch.

Also featured 4 recuperated “Nursery Hymns” of W.B. Yonder, a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson. Free downloads plus notes on his contrafactal process and other delights can be found at: http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html

Part 1

1. Resolution – Mahavishnu Orchestra –- The Messianic Heart – Hendrik Markus
2. Humpty Dumpty / Arnsberg – Patrick Johnson
3. Crack In The Egg – GWAR
4. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Tori – Not Goin’ To Vegas
6. The Treeman – Buckethead -- Axis Mundi – Hendrik Markus
7. Jack And Jill / Maryton - Patrick Johnson
8. Free Satpal Ram – Asian Dub Foundation
9. From the Eastern Gate 2 – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
10. Gor-Gor – GWAR

Part 2

1. Chocolate Jesus – Tom Waits
2. Pylegathon – Buckethead
3. Three Blind Mice / Crusader’s Hymn – Patrick Johnson
4. Sanctuary – Mahavishnu Orchestra -- Easter Sunday, 1983 (A Buddhist Talks To God) - Hendrik Markus
5. Traveling Morgue – Buckethead
6. Alphabet Song / Dix – Patrick Johnson
7. Asscrack Bathmat – Muscle Bitches
8. Watermelon In Easter Hay – Frank Zappa
9. Saved – Amour Fou
10. Sailing - Ripcordz

Spring Equinox Blow-Out

No. 67, March 24, 2010.

Naval Aviation in Audio celebrated the Spring in 2010 with its second annual playing of Igor Stravinksy’s Rite Of Spring. This time the sacrificial audiobook was Peggy Klaus’s Brag! The Art Of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It, and supplemental thunder was supplied by the mixed CD Winnipeg Riot: 18 Killers From Canada’s Musical Murder Capital. Corporate careerism enmeshed in scenes from Pagan Russia collides with jolts of Winnipeggan punk.

Part 1

1. The Adoration Of The Earth (Introduction) – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Flux Capacitor – The Surfadelics
3. Robbin’ A Bank – Hot Live Guys
4. Young Girl’s Dances – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5. Mock Abduction – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Show Me – American Flame Whip
7. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
8. Round Dances – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
9. Games Of Rival Tribes – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Wise Elder’s Procession – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11. Dance Of The Earth – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
12. I’m A Wild Thing – The Wild Things

Part 2

1. The Sacrifice (Introduction) – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. The Sinister Urge – The Rockadoras
3. Mystic Circles – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. No Competition – The Insaniacs
5. Glorification – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. I, Robot – Turnbull AC’s
7. Ancient’s Ritual – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Do The Manic – The Sleepless Knights
9. Sacrificial Dance – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Fuck Knob – The Quiffs
11. Summoning The Ancients – Igor Stravinsky (composer) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Ghosts In My Closet

No. 66, aired March 17, 2010. Featured prose & poetry from Regina writer George Merle’s Ghosts in my Closet. Two beer-themed tracks by bluesrockers The Perpetrators from Winnipeg were played to honour St. Patrick.

For more stories & poems set in Regina, order copies of George Merle’s Ghosts In My Closet or Me and the Hawk or a DVD of his television program ($10 for each item or $25 for all) – email George at originaljustgeorge@gmail.com, or send a cheque or money order to P.O. Box 3391, Regina, SK S4P 3H1.

Part 1

1. Tweeter And The Monkey Man – Headstones
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. My Girlfriend’s A Robot – Hanson Brothers
4. Last Nite – Muddy Waters –- Spirit of the Inner City / One Eye Open / God and Jesus Play Golf / The Gambling Bug – George Merle
5. Ace Of Spades – Motorhead
6. Six-Pack – The Perpetrators
7. Double Lunch – Tim Postgate -– The Medicated Society / Curwen and Margie – George Merle

Part 2

1. It’s All Over – Headstones
2. Instrumental – Muddy Waters
3. Malt Liquor – The Perpetrators
4. 903/4 – ISKRA 1903 -- The Raven / The Reality Police – George Merle
5. Who Are The Brain Police? – The Mothers Of Invention
6. M1 – Derek Bailey
7. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

Mayday! & The Return of the Esemplasm

No. 65, March 10, 2010. This episode featured the return of Frankfurter Ahnung (see episode no.6), a collection of true audio experimentalism curated by Ben Watson, host of Late Lunch With Out To Lunch on Resonance FM in London, UK. Avant-Garde music and spoken-word snippets from that disc were interspersed with Canadian Punk from the MAYDAY! All Canadian Oi! And Streetpunk Compilation. Also featured a live reading from Out To Lunch's book of poetry KRYATL.

Part 1

1. “A Right Cutter” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
2. Hostage Radio – Knucklehead
3. “I Didn’t Know It Segued That Way” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Watch Out – Derek Bailey
6. Drunken Skinhead – The Prowlers
7. Ian Howard – T.H.F. Drenching
8. “Esemplasticists?” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
9. Song Of Nymphs II0049 – Marjan Mozetich (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- KRYATL - Out To Lunch

Part 2

1. “Baggie Dogs” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
2. Persevere – Wednesday Night Heroes
3. Mouth Poem – Out To Lunch
4. “But If You Got Rid Of All The Space ...” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
5. A Day At The Mall – The Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra
6. No Justice – The Class Assassins
7. Song Of Nymphs IV – Marjan Mozetich (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)-- KRYATL - Out To Lunch
8. “Are You An Anarchist, Gamma?” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
9. The Old Git Song – Diary
10. Sailing – Ripcordz

Sharks & Beaches

No. 64, aired March 3, 2010, the fourth episode to feature the audiobook presentation of Moby Dick (chapter numbers listed below, see also episode nos. 58, 59, 62)

Xenakis’s Rebonds B was played in full in Part 1 but was also used at various points as percussive backing to the text & other music.

Part 1

1. A Dark Chapter – Disembarkation
2. Hawaii – Huevos Rancheros
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Theme From Masterburner – Monster Magnet -- Ch.63 (The Crotch)
5. Mindless Aggression – Maow
6. Day’s Eye – Soft Machine -- Ch. 62 (Stubb Kills A Whale)
7. Rebonds B Pour “set” de percussions – Iannis Xenakis (composer) / Pedro Carneiro (percussion) -- Ch. 62 (cont’d)
8. D.I.S. – Soft Machine -- Ch. 62 (con’t)
9. Are U Ready – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Lemme Take You To The Beach – Frank Zappa
2. Beach Blanket Blackout - Huevos Rancheros -- Ch. 64 (Stubb’s Supper)
3. Into The Vortex – Helios Creed -- Ch. 64 (con’t)
4. King Of The Monsters - Man Or Astroman? -- Ch. 64 (con’t)
5. Friendly Love I – Sun Ra -- Ch. 64 (con’t)
6. Illumination – Gogol Bordello (dedicated to Aleks)
7. Sailing - Ripcordz

Pure As Arctic Snow

No. 63, aired February 24, 2010.

A very geological episode featuring an on-air reading from Christian Bok’s Crystallography, a book of ice so clean you can see yourself in it.

Part 1

1. Trapped Under Ice - Metallica
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. New Meteors & Pulsars – Iancu Dumitrescu / Hyperion Ensemble -- Geodes – Christian Bok
4. Pure As The Arctic Snow – GWAR
5. I (Fuck) Mountains – Pink Mountaintops

Part 2

1. Call Of The Triumphant – Thor
2. No Emotion – Hanson Brothers
3. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid – Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO -- (epigraph to Crystallography by M.C. Escher) / Krystallos / Katharsis / Kalokagathia / Crystals (Preliminary Survey) / The Hagiography of Snow: Preface / Krystalloneiros / Crystals / “Turbulent winds ...” / Crystals (Euclid & His Modern Rivals) – Christian Bok
4. Electric Jewels – April Wine

Bad Brains & Wild Rumours

No. 62, aired February 17, 2010.

This episode plunged further & deeper into the darkness that is Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (see also nos. 58 & 59).

Part 1

1. Hearst - King Cobb Steelie -- Ch.41 (Moby Dick)
2. I - Bad Brains
3. Dark Chi – Atomic Bitchwax
4. Son Of Heldenleben – Murray Schafer (composer) / Orch. Symphonique de Montreal -- Ch.41 (con’t)
5. I Against I – Bad Brains

Part 2

1. F.V.K. (Fearless Vampire Killers) – Bad Brains
2. East – Murray Schafer (composer) / National Arts Centre Orch. -- Ch.41 (con’t)
3. Big Takeover – Bad Brains
4. Destroyer – Atomic Bitchwax
5. La Vendetta – King Cobb Steelie -– Ch.52 (The Albatross)
6. Voyage Into Infinity – Bad Brains
7. In Memoriam Alberto Guerrero – Murray Schafer (composer) / Vancouver Symphony Orch. -- Ch.59 (The Squid)
8. Sailing - Ripcordz

Avian Cartography

No. 61, aired February 10, 2010.

This episode presented a bird's-eye view of the earth & an earth-eye gaze at the sky, featuring four tracks from the Mahavishnu Orchestra's 1973 album Birds of Fire, two from the Buttless Chaps' Cartography, five from a Mayday records punk compilation, Chris Cutler's Life On Earth, and a live reading of Charles Olson's poem Kingfishers.

Part 1

1. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters - Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. We Gotta Go - Borderguards
4. Cartography - Buttless Chaps -- Kingfishers - Charles Olson
5. Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
6. Behind Your Screen - The Class Assassins
7. The Flight Of The Bumblebee - Disembarkation
8. Zone Of Compass Unreliability - Tristan Psionic
9. One Last Chance - Knucklehead

Part 2

1. Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love - Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Don't Tread On Me - Wednesday Night Heros
3. Life On Earth - Chris Cutler / Hyperion Ensemble -- Kingfishers - Charles Olson
4. Miles Beyond - Mahavishnu Orchestra
5. Rise Above - Riot 99
6. Broken Transit Broken Soil - Buttless Chaps
7. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic

Airway To Heaven

A starry vault, a firmament dividing celestial waters, paradisiacal mind state, cloud city, New Jerusalem, City of God ... What's your conception of Heaven or the heavens? Can you get there by air? From 10pm to midnight on February 3, 2010 Naval Aviation In Audio tried, reading the poetry of Canadian Christopher Dewdney (Radiant Inventory) and Brit Keston Sutherland (Antifreeze) with Alexina Louie's From the Eastern Gate and other music. This episode included the entire Hairway to Steven album by the Butthole Surfers, and just to make sure things didn't get too serious, 3 blasphemous tracks from Frank Zappa's You Are What You Is. Second ever Double Episode.

Part 1

1. Ricky - Butthole Surfers
2. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Exit Plexit - Simply Saucer
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. John E. Smoke - Butthole Surfers
6. From The Eastern Gate 1 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Radiant Inventory / This My Emissary - Christopher Dewdney
7. Sun Ship - John Coltrane
8. I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas - Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Sol, Pt. 1 - Wooden Shjips -- Ten Past Nine - Keston Sutherland
2. From The Eastern Gate 4 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Fart Song - Butthole Surfers
4. Attaining - John Coltrane
5. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing - Frank Zappa
6. From The Eastern Gate 3 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Jettison Khaki - Christopher Dewdney

Part 3

1. From The Eastern Gate 6 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
2. Jimi - Butthole Surfers
3. Dumb All Over - Frank Zappa
4. From The Eastern Gate 5 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Winter Central - Christopher Dewdney
5. Mole Machine - Simply Saucer -- Among The Golden Sheaves - Keston Sutherland
6. Julio Iglesias - Butthole Surfers

Part 4

1. Rocky - Butthole Surfers
2. Amen - John Coltrane
3. From The Eastern Gate 7 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Heaven - Christopher Dewdney
4. Backass - Butthole Surfers
5. Heavenly Bank Account
6. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
7. Sailing - Ripcordz

Conquistador

No. 59, aired 10pm - midnight, January 27, 2010. First ever Double Episode!

And fittingly, this 2-hour epic episode featured more chapters from Herman Melville's epic novel Moby Dick (see #58), with each of the four 30-minute segments featuring at least one epic-length musical track.

Part 1

1. M10 - Derek Bailey -- Ch.14 (Nantucket)
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
4. Because Because Because - Escapade -- Ch.24 (The Advocate), Ch.19 (The Prophet)

Part 2

1. Deadly Sinners - 3 Inches of Blood
2. Rasas I - Norma Beecroft -- Ch.35 (The Mast-Head)
3. Telephone Song - Tim Postgate -- Ch.35 (con't)
4. M1 - Derek Bailey -- Ch.35 (con't)
5. Two Went To Sleep - Norma Beecroft

Part 3

1. Time We Left This World Today - Hawkwind -- Ch.37 (Sunset)
2. Conquistador - Cecil Taylor -- Ch.36 (The Quarter Deck)
3. Revenge Is A Vulture - 3 Inches of Blood

Part 4

1. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic -- Ch.48 (The First Lowering)
2. Pathways to Unknown Worlds - Sun Ra -- Ch.48 (con't)
3. Filthy Habits - Frank Zappa -- Ch.48 (con't)
4. M11 - Derek Bailey
5. Destroy The Orcs - 3 Inches of Blood

Outward Bound

No. 58, aired January 20, 2010

Featured text was the Classics Library audiobook edition of Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, originally published in 1851, narrated by Frank Muller. Chapters played are indicated below with their accompanying music.

This episode is titled after Eric Dolphy's 1960 Outward Bound album (from which the 2 Dolphy tracks were played).

Part 1

1. Everything Is Alive - Beef Terminal -- Ch.1 (Loomings)
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Who - Brian Jonestown Massacre
4. Les - Eric Dolphy -- Ch.1 (cont'd)
5. Stormy High - Black Mountain
6. the hylozoists - The Hylozoists -- Ch.3 (The Spouter-Inn)
7. Revenge Of The Viper Three - Sheavy

Part 2

1. Lion's Gate - Helios Creed -- Ch.9 (The Sermon)
2. All Around You - Brian Jonestown Massacre
3. Leave A Message - Neon Tetra -- Ch.9 (cont'd)
4. G.W. - Eric Dolphy -- Ch.9 (cont'd)
5. All The Love (instrumental) - Helios Creed -- Ch.9 (cont'd)

Industrial Sabotage

No. 57, January 13, 2010.

Featured text was Issue no. 62 of Industrial Sabotage, a long-running experimental poetry organ published by Ottawa's jwcurry on his Curvd H&z imprint (#458, 2006). Also read David UU's Elemental Journey (Curvd H&z #444, 1999).

Part 1

1. Crunch Time - Ripcordz
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Geneve - Raking Bombs
4. L'arbre de Borobudur - Gilles Tremblay -- Industrial Sabotage 62 (see list of individual poems below)

Part 2

1. Blood On The Floor - Ripcordz
2. Nettle Bed - Soft Machine -- Elemental Journey - David UU
3. Technocratic Manipulators - Voivod
4. Give a Man a Saxaphone and He'll End Up Playing Jazz - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
5. Sailing - Ripcordz
6. Batman - Voivod


The following poems were read during L'arbre de Borobudur in Part 1:

Stereoville / lexa red an mass a fear - Sam Andreyev
THE ONLY SOUND / REVELATIONS - Nelson Ball
Stoma 1351 / Stoma 1337: box pome- lost - Guy R. Beining
15 circus storeez - bill bissett
"somewhere blue ice is growing" - b. a. carver
.02.08.03 crow / .02.04.12.2 - Judith Copithorne
Due To The Success Of The Tonsilectomy / A Short History Of The Rebellion
The Taint / stuck in the back - David Fijino
37 RUE DE LA BOUCHERIE - Hans Jewinski
THE LAST CEDER (back in the daze) - Billy Little
the bell-wether - Michael Mann

For more information about Curvd H&z publications, write to:
jwcurry
#302-880 Somerset Street West
Ottawa, Canada K1R 6R7

Hero Going Down

No. 56, aired January 6, 2010.

This was another episode in the "Western Movie" mode, this time the text being a country-tinged reading of Book I of John Milton's Paradise Lost (with the lines I read given below, e.g. PL I:1-13), featuring the ultimate fallen hero ... Satan!

Also featured the World Premier of Ernie Klinger's new song, Hero Going Down.

Part 1

1. The Ballad of Hank McCain (vocal) - John Zorn -- PL I:1-13
2. Country - Muscle Bitches
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. This Terror - The Pack A.D.
5. Snake Earl - Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice -- PL I:27-75, I:192-224
6. Dust Devil - Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Hardtack Saloon #1 - The Pack A.D.
2. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave
3. Hero Going Down - Ernie Klinger
4. The Big Gundown - John Zorn -- PL I:225-263
5. Siamese Wet Dream - Muscle Bitches
6. Svegliatti & Uccidi - John Zorn -- PL I:264-270
7. The Ballad of Hank McCain (instrumental) - John Zorn -- PL I:315-323

1937. Animal Gravepools

No. 55, aired December 30, 2009.

This was the final of the 4-part "20th Century Zeitgeist" series. Although the 20th Century Zeitgeist concept will continue in some form, examining moments of rupture & transformation in 20th Century culture, this was the final of the four episodes featuring the string quartets of Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg's final quartet was composed around 1937, so the episode also featured some swinging jazz from around that year by Count Basie & poetry published 1936-1938 by Dylan Thomas.

In celebration of the dark limbo between solstice & the new year, the theme of Part 1 was the grave, whereas Part 2 was all about wildness - so I guess combined they describe an animal coming out of hibernation - not quite spring yet, but wtf?

Part 1

1. Dark Rapture - Count Basie
2. The Gravedigger - SNFU
3. Mammal Beats - Les Georges Leningrad
4. Graveyard - Butthold Surfers
5. String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (Movement 1) - Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet -- Altarwise By Owl-light (I & X) / Twenty-four Years - Dylan Thomas
6. Soup Stain Graves - Rehashed
7. HAY - Butthole Surfers
8. Topsy - Count Basie
9. Bodies In The Wall - SNFU

Part 2

1. Eli Eli Lamma sabacthani - Les Georges Leningrad
2. Wild Life - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3. String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (Movement 1) - Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet -- How Shall My Animal / On No Work of Words - Dylan Thomas
4. Loser At Life/Loser At Death - SNFU
5. Naval Aviation In Audio - Frank Zappa
6. The O-Men - Butthole Surfers
7. I Wanna Be Your Dog - Stooges
8. Doggin' Around - Count Basie
9. Eli Eli Lamma sabacthani - Les Georges Leningrad