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