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