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