Antifreeze

No.151, aired December 28, 2011, featuring live readings from Cambridge Avant-Garde poet Keston Sutherland’s book Antifreeze, which, bizarrely enough, I discovered was last used for this program on December 29, 2010 – must be something about that book that invokes the end-of-time – or else this is the time of year I start to feel cold (and therefore need antifreeze!).

This was a special episode in that I played all of the remaining tracks from Lungbutter’s classic 37-track CD Available Now that I had never played before on the program, including their 5 “Public Service Announcements.” The end of Available Now features a strange cluster of lyrical themes related to the idea of chemical ingestion & mortality – antifreeze, brainfreeze, mouthwash, birth defect, coroner – fun stuff!

Part 1

1. From Enslavement To Obliteration – Napalm Death
2. Antifreeze Ain’t That Bad – Lungbutter
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Sound Spectra / Spec Sket – Sun Ra -- The Little Match Girl – Keston Sutherland
5. Lucid Fairytale – Napalm Death
6. Brainfreeze – Lungbutter
7. Unchallenged Hate – Napalm Death
8. Pleasure – Sun Ra -- A Bang Covers Me / Insomnia – Keston Sutherland
9. Coroner – Lungbutter
10. Think For A Minute – Napalm Death

Part 2

1. Private Death – Napalm Death
2. Mouthwash Mosh – Lungbutter
3. Other Planes Of There – Sun Ra – Insomnia (con’t) / A Break For Two / A Countdown To Repeat / Do You Blossom / An Accidental Elegy For GATT – Keston Sutherland
4. Birth Defect – Lungbutter
5. Uncertainty Blurs The Vision – Napalm Death
6. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
7. Sailing – Ripcordz
8. Partner – Lungbutter

The Mystery Of The Reality And The Reality Of The Mystery Of Our Cosmic Existence

No.150, aired December 21, 2011 – the Winter Solstice special, featuring a playing of Regina poet Robert Betteridge’s Trilogy #2, from the great cerebral orb contesting the primitive coconut to the final invocation of the Sun’s Power in The Second Coming Scam, an incredible text to be played on the darkest day of 2011.

Part 1

1. Incantation – Voivod
2. Permeability – Hylozoists -- Prologue – Robert Betteridge
3. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.1 – Arnold Schoenberg
4. Helldriver – Voivod
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. There Ain’t No Santa Clause On The Evenin’ Stage - Captain Beefheart
7. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.2 – Arnold Schoenberg -- Trilogy #2 (a) Premoe Moe And Humoe - Robert Betteridge
8. Quo Vadis – King Cobb Steelie -- Trilogy #2 (a) (continued)

Part 2

1. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.3 – Arnold Schoenberg
2. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.4 – Arnold Schoenberg -- Trilogy #2 (b) All One – One All (SiFi) A Temporary Myth - Robert Betteridge
3. Voivod – Voivod
4. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.1 – Arnold Schoenberg – Trilogy #2 (c) The Second Coming Scam - Robert Betteridge
5. Reprise – Hylozoists -- Trilogy #2 (c) (continued)
6. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (version from Hendrix in the West)

Cosmo-Orgazmic Finale

No.149, aired December 14, 2011. This was the finale of the Orgazmo-Cosmic Ascension series, featuring the 1st edit of John Coltrane’s Ascension (the 2nd was played on June 1, 2011 to kick off the series).

The episode culminated with a playing of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (on audiobook) with the final few minutes of Ascension – an episode wherein Neptune raises his trident as the sea rises apocalyptic and armies of dolphins invade the woods – unplanned but strangely appropriate!

Part 1

1. Whatever Would Beckett Have Said - Swelter
2. Descent Garden – Emetics
3. Cage Around The Sun – Monster Magnet
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Ascension, edit 1 – John Coltrane

Part 2

1. Ascension, edit 1 (continued) – John Coltrane
2. Caving In – Emetics
3. Dinosaur Vaccum – Monster Magnet

... So Below ... Or, The Wreck Of The Broadcast

No.148, aired December 7, 2011, featuring the second disc of Ascension’s Broadcast, consisting the single 47 minute track “... so below.” The first disc, “as above ...” was played on June 15, no.125, in an earlier instalment of the Cozmo-Orgazmik Ascension series.

Late Monday night I decided that Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Wreck of the Deutschland would be a suitably active text to read with Ascension – only on the bus on the way to the station did I realize that Hopkin’s poem commemorates a shipwreck that happened on December 7 (same date the episode aired), in 1875!!

Part 1

1. Lucid Fairytale – Napalm Death
2. Nehemiah’s Misfortune – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. ... So Below – Ascension

Part 2

1. ... So Below (continued) – Ascension
2. Broken Ship – Immaculate Machine
3. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic

Sharp As Hail

No.147, aired November 30, 2011, completes a pair events began in prior episodes. Featured music was the second half of Xenakis’s Kraanerg (first half played in no.143, October 26, as part of the Cosmo-Orgazmic Ascension Series). Words were the remainder of Hart Crane’s Cape Hatteras not read in no.141.

Part 2

1. Kraanerg (continued) – Iannis Xenakis
2. Disaster’s Boring – Buried In The Backyard
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. I’m A Wild Thing – The Wild Things
5. Kraanerg (continued) – Iannis Xenakis
6. Can’t Quit You – Hestons
7. Kraanerg (continued) – Iannis Xenakis
8. No Competition – Insaniacs
9. Fuck Knob – The Quiffs

Part 1

1. Kraanerg (continued) – Iannis Xenakis
2. This Is A Riot – Farrell Brothers
3. Kraanerg (continued) – Iannis Xenakis
4. Do The Manic – Sleepless Knights
5. Kraanerg (continued) – Iannis Xenakis
6. I, Robot – Turnball AC’s
7. Kraanerg (continued) – Iannis Xenakis
8. Robbin’ A Bank – Hot Live Guys
9. Kraanerg (continued) – Iannis Xenakis

Third Anniversary Special

No.146, aired November 16, 2011. As usual, Naval Aviation In Audio celebrated its anniversary with a showcase of the best musical artists its host had no knowledge of before the past 12 months. Many short tracks from the Emetics "Minute Album" were used to bridge the various punk rock and indie rock releases, plus as in past anniversary specials homage was paid to Frank Zappa's Lather album, the three-CD release that inspired Naval Aviation's violent approach to musical genre.

Part 1

1. Your host's intro / Eye speak icing - The Emetics
2. Wet Whistle - The Root In Fluents
3. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Broken Leaf - Tangiers
5. Stretpthroat coach - The Emetics
6. We're All In - Royal Red Brigade
7. Retch reaching - The Emetics
8. Narrow With The Hall - Women
9. Sorrows - The Emetics
10. The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution - Frank Zappa
11. Mad Remix - Genocide

Part 2

1. Beer can extravaganza - The Emetics
2. Hey Little Child - Jungle
3. Beef and bow - The Emetics
4. Reefer Madness - Kroovy Rookers
5. Gunboat moonshine - The Emetics
6. Double Space And Time - Agonal
7. Sand paper scissors - The Emetics
8. Contemporary Armour - Animal Slaves
9. Descent garden - The Emetics
10. Barry Bongwater - Contaminate
11. Leather Goods - Frank Zappa
12. Low sound is the voice - The Emetics
13. Rob The Dead - Red Hot Lovers

R.I.P. Flattus Maximus

No.145, aired November 9, 2011. This was the annual "Remembering The Present" episode, featuring passages from Noam Chomsky's speech titled "An American Addiction" and two World War II speeches of Winston Churchill preserved on the audiobook "The Road To Victory."

This episode paid homage to Cory Smoot - the last and greatest "Flattus Maximus" lead guitar player for GWAR - with three songs that showcase his incredible shredding. In honour of the departed Smoot, GWAR retired the Flattus Maximus character.

Happy Death Day, Flattus Maximus.

Part 1

1. Battle Of Algiers - John Zorn
2. War - D.O.A.
3. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Hot Box Car - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
5. Haiku III (From the Eastern Gate) - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman
6. Metal Metal Land - GWAR
7. Haiku I (From the Eastern Gate) - Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman
8. Untitled track from Pathways To Unknown Worlds - Sun Ra
9. Bonesnapper - GWAR

Part 2

1. Ed's Wake - Zubot & Dawson
2. Drop The Bomb - Genocide
3. David Murray Dons A Cunning Alan Wilkinson Disguise And Blags His Way Onto A Bill At The Termite Club - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
4. Drafted Again - Frank Zappa
5. In My Room - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
6. Happy Death Day - GWAR

Fire & Chains

No.144, aired November 2, 2011. This was one of those episodes where the themes fell beautifully into place as the episode aired. I planned to play some of the hellish first disc of Zappa's Make A Jazz Noise Here, and the creation myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses (which was played from audiobook) happened to contain references to infernal destruction and hard iron - the rest followed in due course ...

Part 1

1. Suffer - Lungbutter
2. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
3. When Yuppies Go To Hell - Frank Zappa
4. Burried Shallow - Agonal
5. Fire And Chains - Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Big Bang Theory - Dog Eat Dogma
2. KONTAKTE 1 - Karlheinz Stockhausen
3. Heavy Metal Maniac - Exciter
4. KONTAKTE 1 (continuted) - Karlheinz Stockhausen
5. The Infernal - Agonal
6. BurntDeadBurnt - Lungbutter

Drums & Spears & Terrors

No.143, aired October 26, 2011. This was the next installment of the Cosmo-Orgazmik Ascension series, featuring this time the first half of Iannis Xenakis's Kraanerg. In honour of Halloween, spoken word was from the Bachanal episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and three tracks by Calgary's scariest band Forbidden Dimension were played.

Part 1

1. Kraanerg - Iannis Xenakis
2. Bloodshack - Forbidden Dimension
3. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
5. Fourteen Faces - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
6. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
7. Creatures Of Habit - Contaminate
8. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
9. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
10. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis

Part 2

1. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
2. My Two Lovin' Hands - Forbidden Dimension
3. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
4. Hell Is Other People - Contaminate
5. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
6. Rolling Home - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
7. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
8. Big Black Hearse - Forbidden Dimension
9. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis

Rats & Scum & Bagetelles

No. 142, aired October 12, 2011. This was a primer episode for the Nomeansno concert at the Distrikt (Oct 14) and Napalm Death at the Exchange (Oct 19). During Tony Oxley's The Advocate a passage from the opening chapter of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was read on air.

Part 1

1. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.1 - Anton Webern
2. No Sex - Nomeansno
3. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.5 - Anton Webern
4. It's Catching Up - Nomeansno
5. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.2 - Anton Webern
6. Teresa, Give Me That Knife - Nomeansno
7. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.3 - Anton Webern
8. Brother Rat - Nomeansno
9. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.6 - Anton Webern
10. What Slayde Says - Nomeansno
11. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.4 - Anton Webern
12. Oh No! Bruno! - Nomeansno

Part 2

1. Scum - Napalm Death
2. I've Got A Gun - Nomeansno
3. Life? - Napalm Death
4. The Advocate, For Strings And Percussion - Tony Oxley
5. Control - Napalm Death
6. Angel And Devils - Nomeansno
7. M.A.D. - Napalm Death
8. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
9. The Hawk Killed The Punk - Nomeansno
10. Disappear - Nomeansno

Godspeed You CJTR!

No.141, aired October 5, 2011, Special Radiothon 2011 Episode

This episode saw NAIA moving more toward a free-form radio art format, particularly in the second half, where Godspeed! You Black Emperor’s Static formed a foundation onto which was added 3 guitar pieces by Regina’s Bob Evans, spoken word from Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits, BBC Sound Effects, and a live reading of the opening of the incredible Cape Hattaras sequence in Hart Crane’s The Bridge.

Part 1

1. Spinning Plates – Radiohead
2. Sally – Gogol Bordello
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Transcendental Medication – Dog Eat Dogma
5. Jelly 292 – Jimi Hendrix
6. Dance Of The Headless Bourgoisie - Nomeansno

Part 2

1. 001 Loser’s Club – D.O.A.
2. Static – Godspeed! You Black Emperor -- Dune / Khamenkule / Yesterday – Bob Evans
3. Midnight Show – The Horribles

Wormwood Goes To Hell

No.140, aired September 28, 2011, the finale of C.S.Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters (as dramatized by Focus On The Family), where Wormwood’s fuck-ups become too much and Screwtape admonishes him in a stunning 12 minute soliloquey before final condemnation.

Part 1

1. Beyond Hell Intro – GWAR
2. Sonata Tragica – Blah Blah 666
3. Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – The Stooges
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Moths To Flame – Buckethead
6. Murderer`s Muse – GWAR
7. It`s Only Life – Blah Blah 666
8. Tormentor – GWAR
9. Hymno Nacional Mexicano – Blah Blah 666

Part 2

1. Descent Of The Damned – Buckethead
2. Fuck Satan To Death – Dayglo Abortions
3. Blossom Blah – Blah 666
4. 666 – Anvil
5. Hylozoists – Hylozoists
6. Go To Hell! – GWAR
7. Sailing – Ripcordz

The Fall ... or the Laff?

No.139, aired September 21, 2011, featuring a live reading from the opening chapter of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Part 1

1. The Fall – Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Things That Look Like Meat – Frank Zappa
4. The Sky Is Falling – Junkhouse
5. Orphans Of Living – Augury
6. Rebonds A pour set de percussion – Iannis Xenakis (comp.) / Pedro Carneiro – percussion

Part 2

1. It Ain’t The Fall That Kills You – Guitar Shorty
2. Bottom Of The Barrel – Grant Green
3. Simian Cattle – Augury
4. All Fall Together – Ford Pier
5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Dumitrescu + Songs Of Experience

No.138, aired September 14, 2011, featuring a reading of William Blake’s Songs Of Experience with music by Iancu Dumitrescu.

Part 1

1. Portland – Bill Bourne
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Stop It – Nomeansno
4. Movemur et Sumus (III) – Iancu Dumitrescu

Part 2

1. Hunt The She Beast - Nomeansno
2. The Things I Used To Do – Guitar Slim
3. Whadiddy Do – Bill Bourne
4. Basoreliefs Simphonique – Iancu Dumitrescu
5. Freeway Babe – Bill Bourne
6. Obsessed – Nomeansno

Yo' Mama

No.137, aired September 7, 2011, the sixth in the Orgazmo-Cozmik Ascension series (see no.123 for details), featuring Frank Zappa’s astral-incredible xenochronous guitar surgery in Yo’ Mama, plus the whole of side 2 of the Sheik Yerbouti album, which I am inclined to call the “castration suite.” And to enhance the mail castration anxiety in Zappa, strong female voices (Little Miss Higgins, The Pack A.D., American Flamewhip, L7) were heard throughout the program.

Part 1

1. Gather My Fruit – Little Miss Higgins
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Jones Crusher – Frank Zappa
4. Fast And Frightning – L7
5. What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World / Rat Tomago – Frank Zappa
6. Kick It – American Flamewhip
7. Hardtack Saloon #1 – The Pack A.D.
8. Wait A Minute / Bobby Brown – Frank Zappa
9. Shiny Things – The Pack A.D.
10. Rubber Shirt – Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Tornado Song – Little Miss Higgins
2. Sheik Yerbouti Tango – Frank Zappa
3. Blackout – The Pack A.D.
4. Yo’ Mama – Frank Zappa
5. Black Cat – American Flamewhip
6. Fingertight – American Flamewhip

Enigmatic Nocturnal Waves Phosphoresce On The Moonlit Shore Of An Inland Ocean

No. 136, aired August 31, 2011, during a Regina & area thunderstorm, featuring a live reading of Christopher Dewdney’s Time Wind. The following was read as lightning lit up the sky: “Fireworks explode in the summer night. Pyrotechnic blossoms of silver and gold ... lightning blossoms in the purple strata of distant storms.” Another happy accident was hearing the Animal Slaves sing “thoughts fall like rain” as heavy showers pelted the CJTR window.

Part 1

1. Beauty And The Beast – Tandoori Knights
2. The Lord Is A Monkey – Butthole Surfers
3. Nocturne No.1 In B-flat Minor – Frederic Chopin / Yundi (piano)
4. Thoughts Fall – Animal Slaves
5. You’re Gonna Change Or I’m Gonna Leave – MonkeyJunk
6. Nocturne No.2 In E Flat – Frederic Chopin / Yundi (piano)
7. L.A. – Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Right Now – MonkeyJunk
2. Nocturne No.3 In B – Frederic Chopin / Yundi (piano)
3. My Brother’s Wife – Butthole Surfers
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Roam The Land – Tandoori Knights
6. Happy Time – Odyssey The Band
7. Hip Hug-Her – Booker T. Jones & The MGs
8. Sailing – Ripcordz

Mostly Awful, With Occasional Reprieves When It Was Purely Terrifying

No.135, aired August 24, 2011, featuring more passages from C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, as re-enacted by Focus On The Family on audiobook. Most of Part 1 constituted a “Sandwich Bloody Sandwich,” 2 meaty slabs from the Dayglo Abortions’ Feed Us A Fetus plus bonus wedges of Prime Time Sublime and King Cobb Steelie like so much cheese, all stacked between two thick slices of Black Sabbath.

Part 1

1. Irrational – King Cobb Steelie
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Sabbra Cadabra – Black Sabbath
4. Scared Of People – Dayglo Abortions
5. Erectile Cognitive Bop Bits – The Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra
6. Black Sabbath – Dayglo Abortions
7. Doomed Thinking Man v. Stupid Action Man – King Cobb Steelie
8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath – Black Sabbath

Part 2

1. You Should Be Getting Something – King Cobb Steelie
2. Stay Clean – Motorhead
3. Pomp And Vindaloo – The Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra
4. I’ll Be Your Sister – Motorhead
5. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic

The Hammer Without A Master

No.134, aired August 17, 2011. This was the fifth installment of the Orgazo-Cozmic Ascension series, featuring Pierre Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master). Included a live reading of Comp.II (July 28/06) by Winnipeg’s POORTREE, a performance poetry duo consisting of Christoff Engbrecht and David Albert Streit.

Part 1

1. Before the Furious Craftsmanship – Pierre Boulez
2. Lashed Out & Gashed – Pericardium
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. First Commentary On The Hangman Of Solitude – Pierre Boulez
5. Super Banana – Lungbutter
6. The Furious Craftsmanship – Pierre Boulez
7. Bodies – Pericardium
8. Second Commentary On The Hangman Of Solitude – Pierre Boulez
9. Mother Earth – Lungbutter
10. Stately Building & Presentiments, 1st version – Pierre Boulez

Part 2

1. Lost Cause – Royal Red Brigade
2. The Hangman Of Solitude – Pierre Boulez
3. After the Furious Craftsmanship – Pierre Boulez
4. Sewage Missile – Lungbutter
5. Third Commentary On The Hangman Of Solitude – Pierre Boulez
6. Vampire Prom Queen – Royal Red Brigade
7. Stately Building & Presentiments, Again – Pierre Boulez
8. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

The Horror Of The Same Old Thing Or Fresh Excesses Of Lasciviousness

No.133, aired August 10, 2011, featuring further passages from The Focus On The Family presentation of The Screwtape Letters. This will be a candidate for “Best Episode Ever.”

Some of the serendipitous highlights included Augury’s Faith Puppeteers being introduced with the words “I don’t think we have to worry about pagens anymore” and D.O.A.’s Unchained Meldody, from The Nutwrencher Suite, introduced with “by suppressing one side of Jesus’ teaching and emphasizing another.”

Part 1

1. Bogg-Marsh Boogie – Evil Dick
2. Faith Puppeteers – Augury
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. The Nutwrencher Suite: Bound For Glory – D.O.A.
5. Little Pink Gibson – Evil Dick
6. The Nutwrencher Suite: Unchained Melody – D.O.A.
7. Klismaphilia Funk – Evil Dick
8. The Nutwrencher Suite: Cut Time – D.O.A.
9. They Can Make It Rain Bombs – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
10. Demons Out! – Art Brut

Part 2

1. What Is It Now? – Evil Dick
2. Blindman – D.O.A.
3. "Mode D – Trio and Group Dancers" ("Stop! Look! And Sing Songs of Revolutions!") / "Mode E – Single Solos and Group Dance" ("Saint and Sinner Join in Merriment on Battle Front") / "Mode F – Group and Solo Dance" "Stop! Look! And Sing Songs of Revolutions!" ("Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt, then Farewell, My Beloved, 'til It's Freedom Day") – Charles Mingus
4. Sovereign Unknown – Augury
5. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension

Saturday Night Punks & Funk

No.132, aired August 3, 2011. This episode commemorates my Saturday Night of live entertainment. Unfortunately, SNFU called in sick to their concert, but the remaining four bands on the bill were all great. I picked up bargain-price CDs by Regina’s Royal Red Brigade and Red Dear’s Kroovy Rookers. I will have to pick up CDs by the Delinquents and Clusterfucks at a later date.

Then, on my stumble home down Albert St., I heard somewhere a band playing Neil Young’s Down By The River, with a Pink Floyd song, Comfortably Numb I think, mixed in. I located the venue and was treated to an amazing funky set of originals & covers by the Root In Fluents on a patio under the lights. An exquisite finish to my night out!

Also read some poetry by J.H. Prynne.

Part 1

1. Frozen Eyes – The Root In Fluents
2. Five Songs, Op.3, IV – Anton Webern
3. Search The City – Royal Red Brigade
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Nights Like This – Kroovy Rookers
6. Five Songs, Op.3, I – Anton Webern
7. Down By The River – Neil Young -- The Numbers – J.H. Prynne
8. Five Songs, Op.3, II – Anton Webern
9. Beguiled Ambiguity – The Root In Fluents
10. Five Songs, Op.3, III – Anton Webern

Part 2

1. Mystic Voyage – The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble -- A Night Square – J.H. Prynne
2. Blackout City Nights – Royal Red Brigade
3. Five Songs, Op.3, V – Anton Webern
4. Electrocutie – The Root In Fluents
5. Derf - The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble -- A Night Square (con’t) / Day Light Songs – J.H. Prynne
6. Breakin’ At Twelve – The Root In Fluents
7. No More Boring Crap – Kroovy Rookers
8. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
9. Here Comes The Judge – Kroovy Rookers

1-2-SNFU!!

No.131, aired July 27, 2011. This was a primer episode for the SNFU concert that was supposed to have taken place Saturday Night – see August 3 for details. Spoken word component was from Steven R. Covey’s 7 Habits.

Part 1

1. Broken Toy - SNFU
2. Valse De Chopin – Arnold Schoenberg
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. She’s Not On The Menu – SNFU
5. The Alphabet Poised Like 26 Frozen Ducklings – Hession / Wilkinson / Fell
6. You Can’t Take It With You – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
7. I’m Real Scared – SNFU
8. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere – Hession / Wilkinson / Fell
9. Money Matters – SNFU
10. Circle With Tangets I – John Beckwith

Part 2

1. Too Tired – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
2. Ochre Ringlet – Eugene Chadbourne
3. Get Off Your Ass – SNFU
4. The Walking Dead – Eugene Chadbourne
5. Loser At Life/Loser At Death – SNFU
6. Madonna – Arnold Schoenberg
7. Bodies In The Wall – SNFU
8. Circle With Tangets II – John Beckwith
9. This Is The End – SNFU
10. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Cozmo-Orgazmik Components + Un-Poems

No.130, aired July 20, 2011, the fourth in the Cosmo-Orgazmic Ascension series (see no.123 for info). The featured disc this time was Bobby Hutcherson’s 1965 jazz masterpiece Components, which was accompanied by an on-air reading of Dennis Lee’s incredible Un-Poems, the tonic twists of which did such lovely tango with the ping pong pounces of Hutcherson’s vibes. Another Best Episode Ever candidate.

Part 1

1. Riding That Oblivion Trail – Swelter
2. Pastoral – Bobby Hutcherson
3. Think Locally Fuck Globally – Gogol Bordello
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. A Grim Occupation In A Grim Landscape – Swelter
6. Movement – Bobby Hutcherson
7. Common Blood – Jungle
8. Little B’s Poem – Bobby Hutcherson

Part 2

1. Sex Mad – Nomeansno
2. Juba Dance – Bobby Hutcherson
3. Hey Little Child – Jungle
4. Air – Bobby Hutcherson
5. It’s So Fuck’N Great To Be Alive – Jungle
6. Dead Bob – Nomeansno
7. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension
8. March Of The Crabs - Anvil

Sin Is A Good Man’s Brother

No.129, aired July 13, 2011, featuring more from C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, as re-imagined by the Focus On The Family theatric version on audiobook. High point of this episode was hearing the demons disgust at the idea of falling in love with a virgin during the drugged out guitar jam in Monster Magnet’s Black Mastermind.

Part 1

1. Jesus Sings The Blues – Junkhouse
2. Functions & Relations – King Cobb Steelie
3. Gimme The Love – Junkhouse
4. Snake Dance – Monster Magnet
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, Track C – Group Dancers – Charles Mingus
7. Praying For The Rain - Junkhouse

Part 2

1. Looking For God - Fucked Up
2. Black Mastermind – Monster Magnet
3. Vital Transformation – Mahavishnu Orchestra
4. Sin Is A Good Man’s Brother – Monster Magnet
5. The Chemistry Of Common Live – Fucked Up

Orgazmocosmic Arcanamerican Gunslinger

No.128, aired July 6, 2011, the third in the Cosmo-Orgasmic Ascension series (see No.123 for more info). The featured piece this time was Edgar Varese’s Arcana, accompanied by more bits from Stephen R. Covey’s Seven Habits. The second half featured Varese’s Ameriques, in honour of American Independence day, with readings from Ed Dorn’s American “pop epic” Gunslinger.

Part 1

1. Corrupted - Pericardium
2. I Meditation - Pericardium
3. Arcana – Edgar Varese
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Red Stone Rocks – Tangiers

Part 2

1. Keep The Living Bodies Warm – Tangiers
2. Ameriques – Edgar Varese
3. Here Come The Pieces – Tangiers
4. March Of The Crabs – Anvil

Oh Canaduh

No.127, aired June 29, 2011. An all-Canadian episode, featuring tracks from the Oh Canaduh vol.2 CD, a compilation of Canadian punk rock cover versions, and readings of Canadian poet Earl Birney.

Part 1

1. Oh Canaduh – The Subhumans
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Oh Canada (Can’t Help Standing On Guard For You) – uncredited final track on Oh Canaduh CD.
4. Try Not To Stutter – Puritans (originally by Nomeansno)
5. Elan For Orchestra – Linda Bouchard -- Slug In Woods / World Winter / Ulysses – Earle Birney
6. Living On Top – Stand GT (originally by Jerry Jerry & The Sons of Rhythm Orchestra)
7. Slaughterhouse – Little Miss Higgins -- El Greco: Espolio – Earle Birney
8. Shamrock Bang – Titans (originally by U.I.C.)
9. Divertissement: Andante Allegro – Pierre Mercure -- Mapmounde / Bushed – Earle Birney

Part 2

1. Machine Shop – Junior Varsity (orginally by The Spys)
2. Dripsody – Hugh LeCaire -- Can Lit – Earle Birney
3. Barbara – More Fun (originally by The Modernettes)
4. Snowin’ Today: A Lament For Louis Riel – Little Miss Higgins
5. Oh Canaduh – Cub (originally by The Subhumans)
6. Carnival Overture – Oskar Morawetz -- Ellesmereland / A Walk In Kyoto – Earle Birney
7. The Grey And The Black – Nomads (originally by the Demics)
8. 1000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT -- Vancouver Lights – Earle Birney
9. Broken Ship – Immaculate Machine

Hot & Putrid

No.126, aired June 22, 2011, the Summer Solstice Special, featuring music & spoken word from Frank Zappa’s Civilization Phase III, The Red Hot Lovers, Regina’s Swelter, Sun Ra’s Pathways To Unknown Worlds, and readings from Ulli Freer’s Burner On The Buff.

Part 1

1. Hot and Putrid – Frank Zappa
2. High After Death – Red Hot Lovers
3. “Flowing Inside Out” – Frank Zappa
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. “I Had A Dream About That” – Frank Zappa
6. The Leper’s Honeymoon – Swelter
7. Gross Man / “A Tunnel Into Muck” – Frank Zappa
8. Dice Of The Knucklebone – Swelter
9. Why Not – Frank Zappa
10. Teenage Thunder – Red Hot Lovers
11. “Put A Little Motor In Em” – Frank Zappa
12. Extension Out – Sun Ra – “Sinking Ink Possibilities” / “tenderness desire” / “bite to copy buff” – Ulli Freer

Part 2

1. “You’re Just Insultin’ Me, Aren’t You!” – Frank Zappa
2. The Wolves Do Their Own Hunting – Swelter
3. Cold Light Generation – Frank Zappa
4. Rob The Dead – Red Hot Lovers
5. Dio Fa / “That Would Be The End Of That” – Frank Zappa
6. The Gods Were Fucking – Swelter
7. Cosmo-Media – Sun Ra –- “Spreading Like There Is” – Ulli Freer
8. Staggering Into The Night - Swelter

Orgazmo-Cosmic Ascension + Bloomsday

No.125, aired June 15, 2011. This was the second installment in NAIA’s Orgazmo-Cozmic Ascension series – see No.123, June 1 for more info. Featured music was the first disc of Ascension’s Broadcast.

Featured audiobook was Stephen R. Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. Also, in honour of Bloomsday (June 16, the date in 1905 that James Joyce’s Ulysses was set), passages from Episode 3 “Proteus” of Ulysses were read).

Part 1

1. B.B. On Mars – Alice Cooper
2. Destination Unknown – Vacation On Mars
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Hope And Glory – The Class Assassins
5. As Above – Ascension

Part 2

1. As Above (continued) – Ascension
2. Just Like Me – L7
3. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic
4. Medication – Vacation On Mars
5. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Sinner Takes All

No.124, aired June 8, 2011, featuring more passages from the Focus On The Family theatrical re-staging of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.

Part 1

1. Sinner Takes All – Forbidden Dimension
2. I Know A Guy Named Larry – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
3. Big Eater – The Bad Plus.
4. Look At What They Got – Genocide
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Klavierstuck XI-1 – Karlheinz Stockhausen
7. Sex Mad – Nomeansno

Part 2

1. Make ‘Em Mad – Genocide
2. Dirty Bond – The Bad Plus
3. Devil’s Got To Burn – James ‘Blood’ Ulmer
4. Descent Of The Damned – Buckethead
5. Invisible Dimension – Forbidden Dimension
6. Highway To Hell – AC/DC
7. Aunts Invasion – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
8. Running Meredith – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
9. Anime Eyes – The Awkward Stage

Cosmo-Orgazmic Ascension

No.123, aired June 1, 2011.

In 1998, British Music critic Ben Watson wrote that “in the masterpieces of modern music – Varese’s Arcana, Boulez’s Marteau sans Maitre, Zappa’s Yo’ Mama, Coltrane’s Ascension, Xenakis’s Kraanerg, Hutcherson’s Components, Ascension’s Broadcast – there is an intimation of impersonal event, the scary objectivity of quasars unfolding in outer space. It corresponds to the moment of orgasm.”

Over the summer and fall of 2011, Naval Aviation In Audio (Wednesday 9-10 pm) will play each of the works in Watson’s cosmo-orgasmic musical canon, beginning with this episode which featured Edition II (the earlier of two takes) of John Coltrane’s Ascension, a 40+ minute, 11-piece stellar excursion into the outer limits of freedom, discipline & risk that still divides audiences. Ricard Giner wrote “Is this extraordinary document an indigestible cacophony of anarchy in brass and bass, or the artistic culmination of a man's desire to explore the outer reaches of tonality and the inner limits of freedom? Is Ascension a transcendental event in jazz history or an anomalous experiment that perseveres in its periphery?”

Some of the spicier passages from Watson’s book were read during the quieter moments of Ascension.

Part 1

1. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic
2. Brain Scan – Voivod
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Ascension, Edition II – John Coltrane

Part 2

1. Ascension, Edition II – John Coltrane (continued) -– select pages from Art Class & Cleavage – Ben Watson
2. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer
3. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Torture (With Screaming)

No.122, aired May 25, 2011. Featuring more of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters in dramatic format, produced by Focus On The Family.

Part 1

1. Torture – King Khan & The Shrines
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Temptation – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. theironchef – Hylozoists
5. Frenzy – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins-
6. red bird wishes – Hylozoists
7. Person To Person – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
8. Judgment – Asian Dub Foundation
9. Little Demon – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
10. 911 – Ripcordz

Part 2

1. The Hylozoists – Hylozoists
2. Rebel Warrior – Asian Dub Foundation
3. Milano Odeo – John Zorn
4. Burnin’ Inside – King Khan & The Shrines
5. streets of crocodiles – Hylozoists
6. Chaos Girl – Ripcordz
7. Chi Mai – John Zorn
8. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Mama Zoom In The Crystal Rainbow Pyramid

No.121, aired May 18, 2011 – second 9-10 episode, featuring a live reading of 3 poems by Anne Szumigalski.

Part 1

1. Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
2. Changing Arranging – Alice Cooper
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Hockey Night In Canada – John Weinzweig
5. Brenda – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
6. Hello Rico – John Weinzweig
7. Ailantus Glandulosa – AMM
8. Reid’s Situation – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
9. My Dear, Etcetera – John Weinzweig
10. Great Day – Storm, Inc.

Part 2

1. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
2. I Killed Mommy – Dayglo Abortions
3. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid – Acid Mothers Temple -- Alice Long / Viaticum: The Text / Gerald – Anne Szumigalski
4. Greyhound - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
5. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Times A-Changing / Mission Statement

No.120, aired May 11, 2011 - First ever episode at new 9 - 10 PM time slot.

Featured passages on how to develop a mission statement from Stephen R. Covey's audiobook The 7 Habits Of Highly Successful People, played simultaneously with instrumental tracks by Frank Zappa, Blah Blah 666, Sun Ra, King Cobb Steelie – and just to make sure things didn’t get dull, various animals were heard from a sound effects CD. In lieu of actually developing a "mission statement" for Naval Aviation In Audio," A poem from Sun Ra's Pathways To Unknown Worlds was read on-air.

Part 1

1. The Times They Are A-Changing – D.O.A.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Chico Lympico – Blah Blah 666
4. Packin’ A Rod – L7
5. Pathways To Unknown Worlds – Sun Ra
6. Self Pity – Nomeansno

Part 2

1. What’s Going On – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
2. Pass The Goldon Falcon – King Cobb Steelie
3. Shove – L7
4. Untitled Track 2 (from Pathways To Unknown Worlds CD) – Sun Ra
5. Love Thang – Nomeansno
6. Jim & Tammy’s Upper Room – Frank Zappa
7. March Of The Crabs – Anvil -- poem from Pathways To Unknown Worlds CD booklet – Sun Ra
8. Sailing - Ripcordz

Round Things Are Boring

No.119, aired April 20, 2011, featuring the entirety of the Lumpy Gravy album, composed by Frank Zappa & performed by Zappa & the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra in 1967.

Part 1

1. Prayor to Pierrot (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
2. Ella Guru – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Lumpy Gravy, Part 1 – Frank Zappa
5. I Can Tell – Ugly Ducklings
6. Loot (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
7. She Danced For Gordie Howe – Tim Postgate
8. Black Summer – Youthinasia

Part 2

1. Dali’s Car – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. Lumpy Gravy, Part 2 – Frank Zappa
3. My Human Gets Me Blues – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
4. Terminator – Tim Postgate
5. Midnight Show – The Horribles
6. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

Screwtape Meets Hellephant

No.118, aired April 13, 2011, featuring further segments from C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, in a dramatic audiobook version by Focus On The Family.

Part 1

1. Sweat Loaf – Butthole Surfers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Boy After Boy – Muscle Bitches
4. Bedlam’s Bluff – Buckethead
5. Track A – Solo Dancer - "Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!" – Charles Mingus
6. Elephant – Muscle Bitches
7. Circle, With Tangents 1 – John Beckwith

Part 2

1. Boy After Boy II – Muscle Bitches
2. Woods Of Suicide – Buckethead
3. Hellephant – Muscle Bitches
4. Yellowed Hide – Buckethead
5. Save The Nymphos – Muscle Bitches
6. Track B – Duet Solo Dancers - "Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces" – Charles Mingus
7. Hell – Blind Melon
8. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

No.117, aired April 6, 2011, featuring live readings of Canadian poet Ralph Gustafson.

Part 1

Intro. The Philosophy Of The Parthenon – Ralph Gustafson
1. Heroic Doses – Glueleg
2. Haught – Derek Bailey -- At The Ocean’s Verge – Ralph Gustafson
3. Cough Syrup – Butthole Surfers
4. Nacht (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
5. Beautiful Sun – Little Miss Higgins
6. Kuilenn – Iannis Xenakis -- On This Sea-Floor / “S.S.R., Lost At Sea.” – The Times / Basque Lover: Spain 1937 – Ralph Gustafson
7. Magic Word – Fucked Up

Part 2

1. Polio – Glueleg
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Waiting – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Open Doors – Odyssey: the Band -- Flight Into Darkness / Legend – Ralph Gustafson
5. Days Of Last Light – Fucked Up –- Prolegomenon At Midnight – Ralph Gustafson
6. Wash These Blues Away – Little Miss Higgins
7. Last One - Odyssey: the Band -- Aspects Of Some Forsythia Branches – Ralph Gustafson
8. Midnight Show – The Horribles

Demon Sanctuary

No.116, aired March 30, 2011 – the third episode to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, a demonic dialogue.

Part 1

1. Demon Sanctuary – John Zorn
2. Losing My Religion – Kleins96
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Lion’s Gate – Helios Creed
5. Aetheral – Augury
6. Sicilian Clan – John Zorn
7. Paso – Blah Blah 666
8. Batman – John Zorn
9. Overture – Blah Blah 666
10. This Terror – The Pack A.D.

Part 2

1. Brimstone Landscapes – Augury
2. Where’s Dane? – Tim Postgate
3. A Shot In The Dark – John Zorn
4. Migratory Birds – Buttless Chaps
5. Obeah Man / Ujaku / Fuck The Facts / Speedball - Zorn
6. Stray – The Pack A.D.
7. All The Love (instrumental) – Helios Creed

The Liberal Hater's Rite Of Spring

No.115, aired March 23.

This was my annual Rite Of Spring episode, in which I sacrifice an audiobook to the pagan death ritual of Igor Stravinsky’s violent 1912 ballet.

This year’s sacrificial victim was Ann Coulter’s How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must), which fought bravely before fainting under a barrage of angry modernist hornblast & percussion, heckling from various birds (from a BBC sound effects CD), and rude interruptions from various punk rock bands. For overall sonic violence combined with accidentally appropriate song choices, this one gets a nomination for “best episode ever” honours.

Part 1

1. Rite Of Spring (Introduction) – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. I Hate You – D.O.A.
3. Young Girl’s Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. U-J3RK5 Work For Police – U-J3RK5
5. Mock Abduction – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Sorceress – Cancer Bats
7. Round Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Bullshit – Dishrags
9. Games Of Rival Tribes – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Wise Elder’s Procession – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11. Mothra – Anvil
12. Dance Of The Earth – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2

1. Mystic Circles – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Nuan Gabo – U-J3RK5
3. Glorification – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Harem Of Scorpions – Cancer Bats
5. Summoning The Ancients – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Gasoline – American Flamewhip
7. Ancients’ Ritual – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Heat Sink – Anvil
9. Sacrificial Dance – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Fuck You – Subhumans
11. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason - Subhumans

Freedom Of Obsession

No.114, aired March 16, 2011. Second episode to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters.

Part 1

1. Freedom Of Obsession – Dog Eat Dogma
2. Beaten With Sledges – Buckethead
3. Tarabos – Soft Machine
4. The Man Who Never Was – Sheavy
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Freedom Of Obsession – Dog Eat Dogma (played 2nd time by mistake)
7. Snodland – Soft Machine
8. Penny Hitch – Soft Machine
9. Art Of The State – Dog Eat Dogma

Part 2

1. Imitation Of Christ – Sheavy
2. Nouvelle Axe – Ana Marie Avram / Hyperion Ensemble
3. Block – Soft Machine
4. Kaos Rex – Dog Eat Dogma

Hank Markus

No.113, aired March 9, 2011.

I am transient. I will die.
Before I die, I will change history.
I will give rise to a superior religion,
One that will assure human success.
No one can stop me.
Phenomena are no hindrance.
Conditions are no hindrance.
History is no hindrance.
Everything conspires to help me.

- Hank Markus

Hendrik (Hank) Markus, Regina poet & Buddhist scholar, passed away on November 20 2010 & this episode is a tribute to his memory, featuring live readings from his book Phenomena No Hindrance.

Part 1

1. Haiku III – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (solo harp)
2. Life Is Long – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Meeting Of The Spirits – Mahavishnu Orchestra -- The Messianic Heart / This Mountainous Reality / Mountain Poem / Three Meditations – Hank Markus
5. Breathless – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
6. Birds At The Mountain Temple - Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (solo harp) -- The Myth Of Fan / The Foreman’s Monologue – Hank Markus
7. 10,000 Years - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
8. A Lotus On Irish Streams - Mahavishnu Orchestra -- poems from pgs.87-92 of Phenomena No Hindrance – Hank Markus

Part 2

1. Supernaturally – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. Sleep – Godspeed! You Black Emperor – Invitation / The Poetic Verge / Midnight Hours / The Word Of The World? / Among The Gems / On Earth And In Heaven / Open The Gates / In Space / Reality Writ Small / That Flare Of Demon Tongue / No Longer Moved / Under The Eternal Sun – Hank Markus
3. Comas – Pink Mountaintops

My Dear Wormwood ...

No.112, aired March 2, 2011.

This is the first episode in a series to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, a cosmic psycho-drama in which a young aspiring demon is tutored by a severe master in the corruption of an innocent human.

Part 1

1. Rattletrap – Forbidden Dimension
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Little Demon – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. Regrets – Cancer Bats
5. Seventh Arrow – Weather Report
6. Glad Your Whiskey Fits In My Purse – Little Miss Higgins
7. One Tooth For The Time Train – Buckethead
8. Circle 2 – John Beckwith
9. Around The Corner – Evil Dick

Part 2

1. Invisible Dimension – Forbidden Dimension
2. Umbrellas – Weather Report
3. Heat Distraction – Women
4. I Put A Spell On You – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
5. Coprophagism – Evil Dick
6. Meat Is Meat - Forbidden Dimension
7. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready - Forbidden Dimension
8. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

Candy-Bright Discs Trundled All Ways Thru Electric Air

No.111, aired February 23, 2011, featuring on air readings of the poetry of Margaret Avison.

Part 1

1. Jim & Tammy’s Upper Room – Frank Zappa -- Snow – Margaret Avison
2. Peeler – Red Hot Lovers
3. Camino Real – The Ramblin’ Ambassadors -- Perspective – Margaret Avison
4. Mastermind – Monster Magnet
5. Ass Ass Or Ass – Red Hot Lovers
6. Fratres For Strings And Percussion – Arvo Part -- The Iconclasts / Butterfly Bones / Meeting Together Of Poles And Latitudes (In Prospect) / Thaw – Margaret Avison
7. Broomstick – L7

Part 2

1. Redline – Red Hot Lovers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Wo Xiang Tanbai – Immaculate Machine
4. Black Errors & Errors In Construction – Tim Hodgkinson -- Voluptuaries
And Others / Intra-Political – Margaret Avison
5. 100 Million Miles – Monster Magnet
6. Sunrise Redeemer – Frank Zappa -- Waking Up - Margaret Avison
7. Midnight Show – The Horribles

The White Anxiety Of Our Sail

No.110, aired February 16, 2011, featuring readings from translations of the poetry of French Symbolist Stephane Mallarme. Unfortunately I had to return the book to the University Library before I got a chance to take down the titles that I had read (my notes only have page numbers).

Part 1

1. Toccata For Violin Player & Piano – Conlon Nancarrow
2. Cut – Headstones
3. The Stinger – King Cobb Steelie
4. Surf Of Syn – GWAR
5. Phone Calls – Vancouger
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Fire In The Ocean – The Organ
8. Crush, Kill, Destroy – GWAR
9. Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima – Krzysztof Penderecki

Part 2

1. Absolutely – Headstones
2. Half-Bit Converter – King Cobb Steelie
3. Making Gestures – The Pack A.D.
4. Fire In The Loins – GWAR
5. Piano Concerto 1 – Einojuhani Rautavaara
6. It’s All Over – Headstones
7. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

The Horror ... The Horror ...

No.109, aired February 9, 2011, reached end of Heart Of Darkness.

Part 1

1. Death Drone II – George Crumb
2. Heart Of Darkness – Headstones
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. I’m Real Scared – SNFU
5. Allegro Grazioso from 6 Bagetelles for Wind Quintet – George Ligets
6. Soul Dressing – Booker T. & The MGs
7. La Vocabulaire – Lederhosen Lucil
8. Silenzio II – Sofia Gubaidulina
9. Cannibal Cafe – SNFU
10. Tales (8 Whisps) – Cecil Taylor

Part 2

1. Danger Zone – Capleton
2. Beta – Jorgen Plaetner
3. Wykydtron – 3 Inches Of Blood
4. Shaker Loops, A Final Shaking – John Adams
5. Boot-leg - Booker T. & The MGs
6. This Is The End – SNFU
7. Herr Noit – Lederhosen Lucil
8. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
9. The More Dem Try – Capleton

Weird Incantations

No.108, aired February 2, 2011. Second-last episode to feature Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.

Part 1

1. Pray For Darkness – Cancer Bats
2. In C – Terry Riley
3. Baby Please Don’t Go – Muddy Waters
4. Lunchmeataphobia (‘Think! It Ain’t Illegal Yet’) – Funkadelic
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. No Productivity – Subhumans
7. Wherever I Go – Eric Dolphy
8. Macrosolutions To Megaproblems – Voivod

Part 2

1. Firing Squad – Subhumans
2. Love Me – Eric Dolphy
3. Mannish Boy – Muddy Waters
4. Deserts, 3rd Interpolation – Edgard Varese
5. P.E. Squad / Doo Doo Chasers – Funkadelic
6. Broken Ship – Immaculate Machine
7. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans
8. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

0 + 2 = 1

No.107, aired January 26, 2011, continuing with my conviction to play more Nomeansno in 2011, played the entire CD titled 0 + 2 = 1 in this double episode (10pm – 12am). Also featured readings from Tim Lilburn’s Names of God.

Part 1

1. Now – Nomeansno
2. Revelation March – James Blood Ulmer -- The Body Is The Gift Of Spirit: To Jan – Tim Lilburn
3. Certainly All – Guitar Slim
4. Hallucination Bomb – Monster Magnet
5. Second String Quartet – Charles Wuorinen -- To St. Dympna Of Gheel, Patroness Of Lunatics, For My Healing – Tim Lilburn
6. The Fall - Nomeansno

Part 2

1. 0 + 2 = 1 - Nomeansno
2. Symphony No.4, Heroes – Phillip Glass -- Comes To The Desert Of Algebra / Hosanna To Wisdom, The Divine Anima / And He Was Coming Into The World – Tim Lilburn
3. Valley Of The Blind - Nomeansno
4. City Of No Sun – John Parish & PJ Harvey
5. Ya Hozna – Frank Zappa
6. Taut – John Parish & PJ Harvey
7. The Night That Nothing Became Everything - Nomeansno
8. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension

Part 3

1. Bored With Sorcery – Monster Magnet
2. Whipping Post – Frank Zappa
3. Lost Fun Zone - John Parish & PJ Harvey
4. I Think You Know - Nomeansno
5. First Interlude – John Cage -- Theophany And Argument – Tim Lilburn
6. Mary - Nomeansno
7. Heela - John Parish & PJ Harvey

Part 4

1. Ghosts - Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Funf Nachtstucke (1990) For Violin And Piano: 1. Elegie – Hans Werner Henze -- Blessed Jan Ruysbroek, Gardening At Groenendael (1 & 2) – Tim Lilburn
4. Every Day I Start To Ooze - Nomeansno
5. Quatro Pezzi Per Orchestra (I) - Giacinto Scelsi -- Blessed Jan Ruysbroek, Gardening At Groenendael (3) / Jeremiad For The Body – Tim Lilburn
6. When Putting It All In Order Ain’t Enough - Nomeansno
7. Mole Machine – Simply Saucer
8. Joyful Reunion - Nomeansno

China Steps?

No.106, aired January 19, 2011, featuring more from Part III of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness on audiobook.

Part 1

1. China Steps – Women
2. Chinese Checkers – Booker T. & The MGs
3. Foot Soldiers (Star Spangled Funky) – Funkadelic
4. Steps – Cecil Taylor
5. Baby’s Are Walking On The Water – Sarcastic Mannequins
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. China Pig – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Part 2

1. Druganaut – Black Mountain
2. Enter Evening [Soft Line Structure] – Cecil Taylor
3. Don’t Run Our Hearts Around – Black Mountain
4. Drag Open – Women
5. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Deserts: East v. West

No.105, aired January 12, 2011, featuring further passages from the book of Ezekiel (chapter nos. indicated). Alternate title: Clint Eastwood v. Yahweh.

Part 1

1. Hang ‘Em High – Booker T. & The MGs (Ch.37)
2. Shoot You In The Back – Motorhead
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Don’t We All – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. In Memoriam Alberto Guerro – Murray Schafer (Ch.27)
6. East Infection – Gogol Bordello
7. Parisian Eyes – Hylozoists (Ch.28)
8. West Coast Flyer – Brian Sklar & Prairie Fire

Part 2

1. Mala Vida – Gogol Bordello
2. East – Murray Schafer (Ch.26,29)
3. Fire, Fire – Motorhead
4. The Crippled Giant – Hylozoists (Ch.29,30)
5. Strange Uncles From Abroad – Gogol Bordello
6. Metamorfosi (La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso) – John Zorn (Ch.31)
7. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

Suffersurge ... or Colloquy In Black Rock

No.104, aired January 5, 2011, featuring an on-air reading from Lord Weary’s Castle, Robert Lowell’s volume of bone-hard, dark-as-hell verse from 1946.

Part 1

1. Energy Surge – Layaway Plan
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. No Guru – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Crazy Boys – Clones
5. Phlegra – Iannis Xenakis -- poems by Lowell George (see below)
6. Pray For Darkness – Cancer Bats

Part 2

1. Hail Destroyer – Cancer Bats
2. Open Aspect No.1.1 – Anthony Braxton -- poems by Lowell George (see below)
3. Controlling Me – Suffersurge
4. March Of The Crabs – Anvil
5. Deathsmarch / Sorceress – Cancer Bats

Poems read with Phlegra: The Exile’s Return / The Holy Innocents / Colloquy At Black Rock / Christmas At Black Rock / New Year’s Day / Winter In Dunbarton

Poems read with Open Aspect No.1.1: The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket / Christmas Eve Under Hooker’s Statue / The Drunken Fisherman

Nomeansno - with a Vengence

No.103, aired December 29, 2010. No theme, except correcting the woeful lack of Nomeansno played on this program over the past 12 months with four tracks by Nomeansno at their violent jazz-punk-apocalyptic best from Dance Of The Headless Bourgeoisie. Also featured a live reading from Keston Sutherland’s Antifreeze.

Part 1

1. Entflieht auf leichen Kahnen, op.2 – Anton Webern
2. Safesurfer – Julian Cope -- Slits In Three Odes 1 – Keston Sutherland
3. Five Songs, Op.3, II – Anton Webern
4. The Rape – Nomeansno
5. Five Songs, Op.3, I – Anton Webern
6. The World Wasn’t Built In A Day – Nomeansno
7. Partner – Lungbutter

Part 2

1. Five Songs, Op.3, III – Anton Webern
2. Give Me The Push – Nomeansno
3. Zacotic – Jon Ballantyne -- Slits In Three Odes 2-7 – Keston Sutherland
4. Fast Money Blessing – King Cobb Steelie -- A Bang Covers Me / Sex Crater – Keston Sutherland
5. Five Songs, Op.3, IV – Anton Webern
6. I’m An Asshole – Nomeansno
7. Five Songs, Op.3, V – Anton Webern
8. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
9. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf
10. Midnight Show – The Horribles