20th Century Zeitgeist 1

Episode 50 begins a new series in which Naval Aviation in Audio will zoom back to key moments in 20th Century music & poetry - moments of change, moments of rupture. This first installment examined the period around 1905, featuring the first of four String Quartets of Arnold Schoenberg, the leading modernist composer for the first half of the century, and Ezra Pound, the lightning rod for the English language avant-garde during that period. And because NAIA is never about sticking to one place or style or period, always restlessly shifting, I also read poems by Anne Szumigalski, the Zeitgeist of Saskchewan & prairie poetry from at least the early 1970s thru to the late 1990s, as well as a selection of more contemporary music.

Part 1

1. Skulls in the Closet - Les Georges Leningrad
2. Revelation March - James Blood Ulmer -- Our Sullen Art - Anne Szumigalski
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Chaosmongers - Voivod
5. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (movement 1 - Nicht zu rasch) - Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet -- Sestina: Alt Aforte; The Seafarer (From the Anglo-Sazon) - Ezra Pound
6. Intro A - John Spencer Blues Explosion

Part 2

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit - The Bad Plus -- Skeps in the Orchard - Anne Szumigalski
2. Experiment - Voidvod
3. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (movement 2 - MaBig (Heiter)) - Arnold Schoenberg -- Want of [thorn] Want of [Edh]; The Musicologist - Anne Szumigalski
4. Sleek Answer - Les Georges Leningrad
5. Morning Bride - James Blood Ulmer

One Year Anniversary Special

Episode 49 marks the beginning of Naval Aviation in Audio's 2nd year on air. In celebration, the first half was devoted to Frank Zappa's Lather album, 4-LPs of original music delivered to & rejected by Warner Brothers in 1977. In response, Zappa delivered the album to his audience for free via radio, inviting listeners to make tape-recorded copies. Although most of the material was released in the late 1970s in single LPs, it is the original running order on Lather, as released by the Zappa Family Trust as a 3-CD set in 1996, that inspire the cross-generic programming of this radio show.

The second half featured exclusively musical artists that I had never heard of before this past year of programming music for radio.

Aired November 18, 2009

Part 1

1. Re-gyptian Strut - Frank Zappa
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. A Little Green Rosetta - Frank Zappa
4. Duck Duck Goose - Frank Zappa
5. Flambe - Frank Zappa
6. Lemme Take You To The Beach - Frank Zappa
7. Filthy Habits - Frank Zappa
8. The Black Page #1 - Frank Zappa
9. Spider of Destiny - Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. The Better Half - American Flame Whip
2. New Drug Queens - Pink Mountaintops
3. All Damn Day Long - The Pack A.D.
4. La Cucaracha - Blah Blah 666
5. Excuse Me, While I Hemmorage - Lungbutter
6. I Wanna Be Your Bicycle Saddle - Acid Temple Mothers & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
7. Stop That Thing - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
8. The Ballad Of Buckethead - Buckethead
9. Her Noit - Lederhosen Lucil
10. Journey To The End Of The Night - Hylozoists
11. No Regrets - King Khan & The Shrines

War Party

Episode no.48 Aired November 11, 2009. In memory of wars currently raging around the world, this episode featured Noam Chomsky's audiobook The New War On Terrorism: Fact and Fiction and four inspired tracks from GWAR's War Party album.

Part 1

1. Soldier Side - System of a Down
2. Bring Back the Bomb - GWAR
3. Circle With Tangents, Part 1 - John Beckwith
4. B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bomb) - System of a Down
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Bumhooler - Crass
7. War Party - GWAR
8. Circle With Tangents, Part 3 - John Beckwith
9. Sentiment (White Feathers) - Crass

Part 2

1. Bonesnapper (The Faces of the Slain) - GWAR
2. Circle With Tangents, Part 2 - John Beckwith
3. Damage, Inc. - Metallica
4. Geneve - Raking Bombs
5. Circle With Tangents, Part 4 - John Beckwith
6. You Can't Kill Terror - GWAR
7. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic

Forbidden Dimension

Episode #47, aired November 4, 2009. This was a sort of second Halloween episode featuring ghoulish garage-rock from Calgary's Forbidden Dimension and some coffin-&-grave themed poems by Emily Dickinson read to some early orchestral works by Anton Webern. The "J" numbers correspond to the numbering of Dickinson's poems in the Thomas H. Johnson edition.

Part 1
1. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 1 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J670.
2. Bloodshack - Forbidden Dimension
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 2 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J943
5. A Coffin Named Desire - Forbidden Dimension
6. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 3 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J280
7. Invisible Dimension - Forbidden Dimension -- J754
8. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 4 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J712 + J1046
9. Big Black Hearse - Forbidden Dimension
10. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 5 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J258
11. Don't Happy, Be Worry - Eugene Chadbourne

Part 2
1. Ochre Ringlet - Eugene Chadbourne
2. Standing At The Edge Of The World - Sheavy
3. Change Has Come (Albert Ayler) - Eugene Chadbourne -- J465
4. Moments of Silence - Sheavy -- J949
5. High Midnight - Forbidden Dimension
6. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 1 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J721
7. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

Black Cat

Aired October 28, 2009 - Halloween Episode, featuring a complete audiobook playing of Edgar Allen Poe's story The Black Cat.

Part 1
1. Tre Pezzi Brevi 1 - Norma Beecroft
2. Kick It - American Flamewhip
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Innocent Exile - Iron Maiden
5. The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman (harp)
6. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica
7. The Eastern Gate 6 - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman (harp)
8. Tre Pezzi Brevi 2 - Norma Beecroft
9. Murders in the Rue Morgue - Iron Maiden
10. The Insidious Soliloquy of Skulhed Face - GWAR

Part 2
1. Fight - GWAR
2. The Ides of March - Iron Maiden
3. Tre Pezzi Brevi 3 - Norma Beecroft
4. Killers - Iron Maiden
5. Piece For Bob [?] - Norma Beecroft
6. Black Cat - American Flamewhip
7. FVK (Fearless Vampire Killers) - Bad Brains
8. The Eastern Gate 4 - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman (harp)
9. Eat Steel - GWAR
10. Sailin' On - Bad Brains