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