If Murk Devour ...

This was a Solstice/Christmas-themed episode. Aired December 24, 2008

"If murk devour,
and none weave again in gossamer:
These rays were ours,
We made and unmade them. Not the shudder of continents
doused us, the moon's passion, nor crash of comets.
In the fathomless heat of our dwarfdom, our dream's combustion,
We contrived the power, the blast that snuffed us."
- Earle Birney, Vancouver Lights

Part 1

1. Hodie Christus Natus Est (for Christmas Use) – James Healey Willan / Elmer Iseler Singers
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Nadir (from Earthrise Cycle) – Christos Hatzis / Peter Hannan – recorder; Douglas Perry – viola, tape track
4. Didja Get Any Onya? – Frank Zappa
5. Ego, the Living Planet – Monster Magnet -- Canto 1 - Ezra Pound
6. Soleils Couchanat for Chorus – André Prévost / Tudor Singers of Montréal
7. Dead Christmas – Monster Magnet

Part 2

1. Toads of the Short Forest – Frank Zappa
2. Magnus Dominus – Anonymous (probably a turn-of-the-18^th Century Ursuline nun in Québec City) / Tudor Singers of Montreal
3. Dopes to Infinity – Monster Magnet
4. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask – Frank Zappa
5. All Friends and Kingdom Come – Monster Magnet
6. Big Bang II for Tape & Mulitimedia Installation - Marcelle Deschênes -- Vancouver Lights - Earle Birney

Submarine Outhouse

This episode featured Frankfurter Ahnung, a collection of some of the most adventurous music out of Europe (especially London), as well as live readings of poetry by Out to Lunch, curator of the CD and leading critic and champion for the revolutionary artistic tendancy called the Esemplasm.

And to supplement this urgent shot from the London avant-garde, I played seven tracks from Winnipeg Riot, a 2005 collection of 18 Killers from Canada's Musical Murder Capital. While I despise much of the fluff that passes as "punk rock" & "indie rock" at this late date, I am amazed at how dissonant & powerful much of this recent Winnipeggan music is. Aired December 17, 2008


Part 1:

1. Intro -- Girls – Kenny Process Team
2. Midnight Show – The Horribles
3. "I didn't know it segued that way" – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
4. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Phlegmosaurus – Lendormin
6. The Sinister Urge – The Rockadoras
7. "A Right Cutter" – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
8. 1/28 Silverfish Macronix – Derek Bailey
9. Work for the Man – Squareheads
10. The Dust Parade – Marie-Angelique Bueler [Ensamble Rosario Cond. Marisol Gentile] -- Embittered Ruth - Out to Lunch
11. Robbin' a Bank – Hot Live Guys


Part 2:

1. Instant Events #1 – Ian Stonehouse & Sebastian Lexer -- Chic Random - Out to Lunch
2. "Are you an anarchist, Gamma?" – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
3. Show Me – American Flame Whip
4. Hair Spider Stuck to Sock – Evil Dick & the Banned Members
5. No Competition – The Insaniacs
6. This Speech Made by Mr. Blair, Glasgow, Feb 15th, 2003 - Sean Bonney -- Duke of Orchestral Prunes - Frank Zappa
7. Art 3 – Jaworzyn/Wilkinson/Fell
8. Devil Girl – The Fever Breaks
9. Outro -- Blue Sunset – Winifred Atwell

Desolation & Purgery

This episode was to be a more secular journey than the last, but a serendipitus discovery of a 2nd-hand copy of the obscure Hellephant CD by Vancouver’s The Muscle Bitches sent us back into the world of demonic phantasmagora (& if anyone knows how to get a copy of the Muscle Bitches extremely rare Demon Boy Takes a Lover CD please let me know so I can put it on air).

And to counteract the Muscle Bitches' Satanic Elephant worship, I called upon the Prophets Isaiah (on the Commuters' Audio Bible, to be accompanied by Pierre Boulez' Dialogue of the Double Shadow) and the paranoid religious psychodrama of Polly Jean Harvey with John Parish. Aired December 10, 2008

Part 1

1. Is That All There Is? – Frank Zappa
2. Comeland – Muscle Bitches
3. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Save the Nymphos – Muscle Bitches
5. Taut - John Parish & PJ Harvey
6. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Strophe I) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.6
7. Heela - John Parish & PJ Harvey
8. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Transition I-II) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.9
9. Lost Fun Zone – John Parish & PJ Harvey
10. from Symphony No. 3 (Allegro Vivace – Lento) – Jacques Joseph Robert Hétu -- Isaiah Ch.5
11. Asscrack Bathmat – Muscle Bitches

Part 2

1. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Sigle Initial) – Pierre Boulez
2. Dance Hall at Louse Point – John Parish & PJ Harvey
3. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Strophe II) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.21
4. Boy After Boy – Muscle Bitches
5. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Transition II-III) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.22
6. Elephant - Muscle Bitches
7. Dialogue de l'Ombre double (Strophe III) – Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.24
8. Boy After Boy II – Muscle Bitches
9. Dialogue de l'Ombre double – (Transition III-IV) Pierre Boulez -- Isaiah Ch.27
10. Hellephant – Muscle Bitches
11. Is That All There Is? – John Parish & PJ Harvey
12. Is That All There Is? – Frank Zappa

Ecstatic Lamentations

This fourth episode featured passages from the Lamentations of Jeremiah taken from the Commuters Audio Bible played simultaneouly with works by modern Canadian composers John Jacob Weinzweig, François Morel, Harry Freedman, and Marcelle Deschênes. The ecstatic part was supplied mainly by John Coltrane's late 1965 Sextet on the Meditations LP and a couple of tracks from Captain Beefheart's 1969 masterpiece Trout Mask Replica. Aired December 3/08

Part I

1. Intro -- Quarks (from 15 Pieces for Harp) - John Jacob Weinzweig -- Lamentations Ch.4
2. Frownland - Captain Beefheart
3. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Lisa Run – Bob Wiseman
5. Étude de sonorité for piano No 2 - François Morel -- Lamentations Ch 3
6. China Pig – Captain Beefheart
7. Compassion – John Coltrane
8. The Dust Blows Forward 'N the Dust Blows Back – Captain Beefheart

Part II

1. Dachau Blues – Captain Beefheart
2. Big Bang II for Tape & Mulitimedia Installation - Marcelle Deschênes -- Lamentations Ch.1
3. Row the Boat – Bob Wiseman
4. Toccata for Flute & Soprano - Harry Freedman
5. The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost – John Coltrane -- Lamentations Ch.2
6. Outro -- Quarks - John Jacob Weinzweig (brief reprisal)