Winter Solstice '13

No.242, aired December 18, 2013. A Winter Solstice special, featuring 4 tracks from John Coltrane’s 1966 album Meditations. Also some passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Part 1

1. Organic Space – Guerrilla Funk Monster
2. Compassion – John Coltrane
3. Contest (t7) – Young Spirit
4. Interlijeridoo – Guerrilla Funk Monster
5. Consequences – John Coltrane
6. Intertribal (t6) – Young Spirit
7. Experiment – Voivod

Part 2

1. Contest (t5) – Young Spirit
2. Serenity – John Coltrane
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Intertribal (t2) – Young Spirit
5. The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost – John Coltrane
6. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Industrial Sabotage No.63

No.241, aired December 11, 2013. Featured live interpretations of sound poetry scores published in jwcurry’s INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE No.63: MESSAGIO AMOR SOME MORE, one of 100 copies prepared in conjunction with MESSAGIO GALORE take V, 13 April 2008. Also played some passages from an audiobook titled The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universe & The Deep Laws Of The Cosmos, by Brian Greene.

Part 1

1. Journey To The End Of Night – Hylozoists -- Ears – Michelle April/jwcurry
2. Experiment – Voivod
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Get Away From It All – Northwest Company
5. Beyond The Zero – Bill Laswell -- KARAWANE – Hugo Ball / CANZONE RUMORISTA cantata in core sui teatri d’Italia in ANICCAM del 2000 – Fortunate Depero
6. Macrosolutions To Megaproblems – Voivod

Part 2

1. The Tales Of Solar Sail: Dark Stars In The Dazzling Sky – Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO -- CRODZIAC DEZEGOUM APIR – Claude Gauvreau / “end ant” – Wharton Hood / anacyclic poem with two shouts DHARMATHOUGHTS STUPAWARDS – dom sylvester houedard / sweet suite suet – Ernst Jandl

Baltimore, Cleveland, Cucamonga & Sun Village

No.240, aired December 4, 2013, a tribute to Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) on the 20th anniversary of his passing. The special thing here was I chose 3 or 4 Zappa CDs I wanted to play, chose the original side 2 of the Roxy & Elsewhere album (Tracks 4-6 on the CD) and two tracks from Does Humor Belong In Music? – and realized I had two of the rare songs Frank wrote about places where he had lived – What’s New In Baltimore and Village Of The Sun. In both cases, a subdued song about a place launches an extended instrumental adventure. I checked a third CD, Bongo Fury, for a short track to end the program with, and found Cucamonga, a third little song Zappa wrote about a little place where he had lived. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time to play the longer follow-up, Advance Romance.

Part 1

1. Peanut Butter Thing – Tim Posgate
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Village of the Sun – Frank Zappa
4. Echidna’s Arf (Of You) – Frank Zappa
5. Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing? – Frank Zappa
6. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
7. Punished By Funk – King Cobb Steelie

Part 2

1. Partner – Lungbutter
2. What’s New In Baltimore? – Frank Zappa
3. Lid Factor – Tim Posgate
4. Let’s Move To Cleveland – Frank Zappa
5. Cucamonga (with a bit of Black Napkins) – Frank Zappa

Textures Liminales, Yellowfields & Moral Panic

No.239, aired November 27, 2013. Another unplanned episode, with more readings from Yellowfield #8.

Part 1

1. Trynottothink – Moral Panic
2. Hurt The People You Love – Kill Cheerleader
3. State Demands The Interest Of The Capitalist Class – Moral Panic
4. Time and Place – Jon Hassell -- The Hat Trick – G.N. Gabbard
5. Yacub – Moral Panic
6. Textures Liminales (I) – Ana-Maria Avram -- Immodest Sonnets / Slow Construction – G.N. Gabbard
7. Dead Labour – Moral Panic
8. Sell Your Soul – Kill Cheerleader

Part 2

1. One Solution... Revolution – Moral Panic
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Happy New Year – Moral Panic
4. So Young – Kill Cheerleader
5. Textures Liminales (II) – Ana-Maria Avram -- In Memoriam: Teapot Dome – G.N. Gabbard / Colour Process (Americana) / Don’t Become – Anna Reckin
6. Set Them Free – D.O.A.
7. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT -- West End Blues – Pam Brown
8. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Brutal Outer Space Knight Stirring-Spout Fat-Stock Threat

No.238, aired November 20, 2013. An unplanned episode, including a reading of Little Marlborough At The Seashore by the late Norma Kassierer, from Yellowfield #8, an issue in her honour.

Part 1

1. Bad Choice – Brutal Knights
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Zone of Compass Unreliability – Tristan Psionic
4. I Do Nothing – Brutal Knights
5. A Hundred Stirring-Spout Pots – THF Drenching
6. I Hate Chores– Brutal Knights

Part 2

1. We Like To Fight – Threat From Outer Space
2. Sixty-Nine Fat-Stock Breviaries – THF Drenching
3. Guesswork – Threat From Outer Space
4. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
5. Monorails & Satellites – Sun Ra
6. Anime Eyes - The Awkward Stage

5th Anniversary Special

No.237, aired November 13, 2013. 5th Anniversary Episode, featuring the best musical artists I learned about in the last 12 months + tracks from Frank Zappa’s Lather album, poems from Ken Babstock’s Methodist Hatchet, and poems by Jay MillAr, Astrid Lorange, and Louis Armand from Forward Slash (“/”).  

Part 1

1. I Won’t Survive – The Grates
2. Soft Flesh For The Dungeon Of The Damned – B-Monster
3. Wet Brainz – FPG
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Red Shoes – Spiral Beach
6. 40th Parallel – Groundtruther
7. For The Young Sophisticate – Frank Zappa
8. Le Boeuf et la Grenouille – IKS
9. Run – Stiffed
10. O Argaleious – George Koufogiannakis
11. Powerful Wonderful - Satanatras

Part 2

1. Megots – IKS
2. The Dog – Spiderbait
3. Drop – James Rolfe (comp.) / Continuum Contemporary Music
4. Sleep Creep – White Lung
5. Organs – Comets On Fire
6. Be My Babysitter – Brutal Knights
7. Down In De Dew – Frank Zappa
8. Guesswork – Threat From Outer Space
9. Sept 16th, 2005 – Fond Of Tigers
10. 1,000 Cigarettes - MSTRKRFT

Penis?

Aired November 6, 2013, featuring four tracks from THF Drenching’s Cup Penis Open Penis Cup, and several of Lorna Crozier’s “Penis Poems.”

Part 1

1. Seven Kinder Dach Lieder 2 – THF Drenching
2. Space Weiner – Lungbutter
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Super Banana – Lungbutter
5. Seven Kinder Dach Lieder 3 – THF Drenching
6. Man-Size Sextet – PJ Harvey
7. Big Dick – Nomeansno
8. Kaelin’s Mood – George Koufogiannakis
9. Man-Size – PJ Harvey
10. Seven Kinder Dach Lieder 4 – THF Drenching
11. Snake – PJ Harvey
12. Dave’s Blues – George Koufogiannakis -- Osiris – Lorna Crozier
13. 50FT Queenie – PJ Harvie
14. Seven Kinder Dach Lieder 1 – THF Drenching

Part 2

1. Brainless Wonder – Nomeansno
2. Hors Tension – Emetics
3. Eat Steel – GWAR
4. Cure A Being Cruise – Emetics
5. Postcards On A Train – George Koufogiannakis -- Variations / Facts – Lorna Crozier
6. To Weezer – Emetics
7. Penis I See – GWAR
8. Kid Inspector – Emetics
9. As Poume – George Koufogiannakis -- Phallic / Their Smell / Tales For Virgins – Lorna Crozier
10. Sweetly Like Jake The Dildo – Emetics
11. Fight – GWAR
12. Larry Suffered For Larry – Emetics
13. March Of The Crabs – Anvil -- Overture – Lorna Crozier

Wolves! & Werewolves ...

Aired October 30, 2013. I noticed a lot of my discs have songs about wolves, and in some cases werewolves. So it only seemed natural to play them all in one episode, on the eve of Halloween. Included 4 spoken word tracks by Howlin’ Wolf and a live reading of Little Redcap by the Grimm bros.

Part 1

1. Where’s My Wolves? – Forbidden Dimension
2. Klavierstucke IV – Karlheinz Stockhausen (comp.) / David Tudor (piano) -- Howlin' Wolf Talks #2
3. The Wolves Do Their Own Hunting – Swelter
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa -- Howlin' Wolf Talks #4
5. I’m The Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
6. Wolves & Werewolves – Pack A.D.
7. Klavierstucke I – Karlheinz Stockhausen (comp.) / David Tudor (piano) -- Howlin' Wolf Talks #1
8. Werewolf – 5 Man Electrical Band
9. Klavierstucke VIII – Karlheinz Stockhausen (comp.) / David Tudor (piano)
10. Howlin’ Wolf Boogie - Howlin' Wolf

Part 2

1. Wulfblaster – Kleins96
2. Klavierstucke II & III – Karlheinz Stockhausen (comp.) / David Tudor (piano)
3. The Wolf Man Kindly Requests – Clutch
4. Moaning Wolf – Burro -- Howlin' Wolf Talks #3
5. Wild Old Wolfman – Forbidden Dimension
6. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension
7. The Wolf I Feed – Napalm Death
8. Gag Odour – Forbidden Dimension
9. The Wolf Is At Your Door - Howlin' Wolf

Part Bubbles In Brazen Kettles, Part Sputters On Spits, The Full Hour Dripping With Gore

No.234, aired October 23, 2013. A pre-Halloween episode with readings of 3 Odes by John Keats, and a fortuitously gorey portion of Ovid’s Metamorphoses where the vengeance of Procne & Philomena is wreaked to the tune of James Rolfe’s Revenge! Revenge!! Revenge!!! As always, the Ovid passage was a blind selection, the next in sequence, and the congruence with other audio material unplanned. “Bachanalian Vengeance” might have been an appropriate title, but the bloody Ovidean tale provided no end of more colourful possibilities – here are but a few: The Ravenous Bird Of Jove Has Dropped His Prize, The Barbarous Fellow Triumphs, Blood Smeared Over Plumage, The Savage Tyrant’s Wrath Aroused, Offered Her Throat To The Stroke, The Mangled Root Quivers While The Severed Tongue Lies Palpatating, The Severed Tail Of A Mangled Snake Twitches Convulsively, Soul Bent On The Thought Of Vengence, Night Resounds With The Shrill Clash Of Brazen Symbols, Dons The Array Of Frenzy, Mimics Your Madness, Oh Bacchas, Trappings Of The Bachic Rites, Still Warm And Quivering With Life, Invokes The Snaky Sisters From The Stygian Pit, To Seek The Bright Gleaming Fleece Of Gold ...

Part 1

1. Graveyard Line – Forbidden Dimension
2. Freddy’s Dead – James Rolfe (composer) / Continuum Contemporary Music (orchestra)
3. The Leper’s Honeymoon – Swelter
4. Defcon 2 – Man ... Or Astroman
5. Nothing Left Alive – GWAR
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Haunted – Forbidden Dimension
8. Devilled Swan – James Rolfe (composer) / Continuum Contemporary Music (orchestra)
9. Spiderbite – Forbidden Dimension

Part 2

1. Vulture Feed / Dreamdate – Forbidden Dimension
2. Electric Arc – Man ... Or Astroman
3. Revenge! Revenge!! Revenge!!! – James Rolfe (composer) / Continuum Contemporary Music (orchestra)
4. Staggering Into The Night – Swelter
5. Defcon 5 – Man ... Or Astroman
6. Wild Doll – Forbidden Dimension
7. Defcon 1 – Man ... Or Astroman

Mulrooney’s Last Stand, Again!

No.233, aired October 16, 2013. Played most of the same stuff from No.229, September 11, 2013, so more folks could hear it. Audiobook was the Commuters Library edition of (The Best Of) Have Gun Will Travel, Show 2: No Visitors. This was a radio program that originally aired in 1957. The audiobook preserves the original radio advertisements, several of which were featured here.

Part 1

1. Have Gun Will Travel theme music
2. Horse Latitudes North - Grountruther
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. While Heaven Fell – IKS
5. Cheyanne – Bo Diddley
6. Making Gestures – The Pack A.D.
7. Equator – Groundtruther

Part 2

1. Stormy High – Black Mountain
2. Blackout – The Pack A.D.
3. Hitchcock – IKS
4. Evil Ways – Black Mountain
5. Hitchcock (continued) – IKS
6. Ride On Josephine – Bo Diddley
7. Hitchcock (continued) – IKS
8. Horse Latitudes South – Grountruther
9. Dinah-Moe Hum – Frank Zappa

The IMF Swallowed The Sun.

No.232, aired October 9, 2013, with more of Stephen Lewis’s audiobook Race Against Time, a sobering memoir of economic policy creating poverty, debt & pandemic in Africa. In the first half Lewis’s earnest orations are set against 3 tracks from Battle Maximus, the new album by GWAR. The second half featured poems by Michael Farrell from Forward Slash (“/”) – a journal of contemporary Canadian & Australian poetry published by Black Rider Press & edited by Matthew Hall & Jeremy Balius, accompanied by Medium II, an early work by Romanian Spectralist Iancu Dumitrescu. Dumitrescu’s work-outs on upright bass recall the material base of the word “medium” – the high school physics lessons where energy was observed travelling thru strings of different lengths, an avenue of scientific inquiry pursued by countless string musicians across the stretched elastic eons.

Part 1

1. They Can Make It Rain Bombs – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
2. Defcon I – Man ... Or Astroman?
3. Madness At The Core Of Time – GWAR
4. From The Eastern Gate: Ceremonial Music – Alexina Loiue (composer) / Erica Goodman – Harp
5. They Swallowed The Sun - GWAR
6. From The Eastern Gate: Haiku I – Alexina Loiue (composer) / Erica Goodman – Harp
7. New Cocoon - Man ... Or Astroman?
8. From The Eastern Gate: On Permanence – Alexina Loiue (composer) / Erica Goodman – Harp
9. Raped At Birth – GWAR

Part 2

1. Medium II – Iancu Dumitrescu -- Project ... Ile / Bug Horizon / Cat Days Are Over / Invisible America / Carnival - Michael Farrell
2. Motherless Children – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

RADIOTHON 2013

No.231, aired October 2, 2013. Includes readings and vocal-gestural interpretations of Out To Lunch’s Smooch Tentet Resolve (Veer, 2010). I only realized during the live playing of this episode back that aside from my Radiothon plugs, the 2nd half of the program, on the topic of how great it is to be alive, contains two exhortations to the telephone - Storm Large advises would-be television talk-show participants to call 1-800-LUCIFER; later, the Mothers of Invention provide 2 phone numbers to their own audience of “consenting adults.” 

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Part 1

1. Looks Like An Angel – John Korsrud (with Joe Keithly on vocal)
2. 60 Revolutions – Gogol Bordello
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Fifty-Fifty – Frank Zappa
5. Sound Baffle – King Cobb Steelie -- Smooch Tentet Resolve – Out To Lunch
6. Underdog World Strike – Gogol Bordello
7. Ghetto Booty – FPG

Part 2

1. Running Meredith – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
2. Great Day – Storm Inc.
3. You Spin Me Round ’86 - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet -- Smooch Tentet Resolve – Out To Lunch
4. Call Any Vegetable – The Mothers Of Invention
5. The Gods Were Fucking – Swelter
6. Aunt Invasion - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet -- Smooch Tentet Resolve – Out To Lunch
7. It’s So Fuck’n Great To Be Alive – Jungle
8. Never Wanna Be Young Again – Gogol Bordello

Bleed The Dying Elephant

No.230, aired September 25, 2013. Titled after Threat From Outer Space CD used. Audiobook was Stephen Lewis’s – Race Against Time, about how macroeconomic policy (IMF, World Bank, free trade, structural adjustments, etc.) creates poverty in Africa & exacerbates the AIDS pandemic.

Part 1

1. Folk Songs: Little Nightingale – Luciano Berio (composer) / Jard van Nes – mezzo-soprano
2. Boy After Boy – Muscle Bitches
3. Folk Songs: Dance - Luciano Berio (composer) / Jard van Nes – mezzo-soprano
4. Elephant – Muscle Bitches
5. Folk Songs: The Ideal Woman – Luciano Berio (composer) / Jard van Nes – mezzo-soprano
6. Boy After Boy II – Muscle Bitches
7. Folk Songs: May The Lord Send Fine Weather – Luciano Berio (composer) / Jard van Nes – mezzo-soprano
8. Hellephant – Muscle Bitches
9. Duetti for 2 violins – Luciano Berio
10. Worldwide – Threat From Outer space
11. Duetti for 2 violins – Luciano Berio
12. Elephant Bell – Monster Magnet
13. Duetti for 2 violins – Luciano Berio
14. Space Out – Threat From Outer space

Part 2

1. Cogito, Trompe l’Oeil – Iancu Dumitrescu
2. Rip Apart – Threat From Outer space
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Evil – Monster Magnet

Mulrooney’s Last Stand

No.229, aired September 11, 2013. Audiobook was the Commuters Library edition of (The Best Of) Have Gun Will Travel, Show 2: No Visitors. This was a radio program that originally aired in 1957. The audiobook preserves the original radio advertisements, several of which were featured here.

Part 1

1. Have Gun Will Travel theme music
2. Horse Latitudes North - Grountruther
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. While Heaven Fell – IKS
5. Cheyanne – Bo Diddley
6. Making Gestures – The Pack A.D.
7. Equator – Groundtruther
8. Don’t Have To – The Pack A.D.

Part 2

1. Stormy High – Black Mountain
2. Blackout – The Pack A.D.
3. Hitchcock – IKS
4. Evil Ways – Black Mountain
5. Hitchcock (continued) – IKS
6. Ride On Josephine – Bo Diddley
7. Hitchcock (continued) – IKS
8. Horse Latitudes South – Grountruther
9. Sailing - Ripcordz

How To Spit It Out Bright Steed & Become Dead Skunk Check

No.228, aired September 4, 2013. Audiobook was Don Gobor’s How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends. Included readings of four poems by Duncan Hose from Forward Slash (“/”) – a journal of contemporary Canadian & Australian poetry published by Black Rider Press & edited by Matthew Hall & Jeremy Balius.

Part 1

1. Sixteen Tons – Bo Diddley
2. Sinfonia IV – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
3. Ass Clamp Anthem – FPG
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Alright – FPG
6. Sinfonia I – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- Golden Leaflets Of Shoji – Duncan Hose
7. Pedestrian – Spiral Beach
8. Cadillac – Bo Diddley
9. Sinfonia V – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- Faire Du Skeptique – Duncan Hose

Part 2

1. Shake Yah Dam Head - FPG
2. Casual – Spiral Beach
3. Sinfonia III – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- Liquor' Not Like That – Duncan Hose
4. Summertime – Booker T Jones & The MGs
5. Dilly – FPG
6. Sinfonia II – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- The Paul Revere Girls – Duncan Hose
7. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Wound Response

No.227, aired August 28, 2013, with a complete reading of JH Prynne’s Wound Response.

Part 1

1. North Pole – Groundtruther -- Treatment In The Field – JH Prynne
2. War – D.O.A.
3. Divertissement For String Quartet – Pierre Mercure -- The Blade Given Back – JH Prynne
4. War Party – GWAR
5. Suliman – Infected Mushroom -- Cool As A Mountain Stream / Thanks For The Memory / Pigment Depot – JH Prynne
6. I Hate You – D.O.A.
7. Gag Odor – Forbidden Dimension
8. You Can’t Kill Terror – GWAR

Part 2

1. Fight War Not Wars / Women – Crass
2. Concerto For Piano & Orchestra – Michael Conway Baker -- Of Movement Toward A Natural Place – JH Prynne
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Bring Back The Bomb – GWAR
5. Elan For Orchestra – Linda Bouchard -- Landing Area / Chromatin / Melamin / An Evening Walk – JH Prynne
6. Class War – D.O.A.
7. Arctic Circle – Groundtruther -- An Evening Walk (con’t) / Again In The Black Cloud – JH Prynne
8. Bonesnapper – GWAR -- Again In The Black Cloud (con’t) – JH Prynne
9. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic

Destroy All Cars!

No.226, aired August 7, 2013. Includes a complete reading of a fictional high school essay called “DESTROY ALL CARS” by a novel of the same title by Blake Nelson, plus more readings from Colin Smith’s Carbonated Bippies! and a bit of Georgius Agricola’s De Re Metallia, a classic work of metallurgy.

Here the text I wrote during the first Jaworzyn/Wilkinson track & read out during the second:

The traffic as imagined by Jaworzyn & Wilkinson, unlike in heavy metal, is not the smooth engine hum or muffled street drone, or the stuff of smooth flow, but an abrupt tangle-jangle & plaintiff honks & squeels, it’s the sound of jam traffic & bang traffic & fender benders & bloody blenders & piles-up & smash-ups & victims screaming. This is the systemic violence wreaked on the world by big auto & big oil & all their subsidiaries. No steady drum or cozy guitar fuzz here folks – this is reality.

Part 1

1. Spokes For The Wheel Of Torment – Buckethead -- Destroy All Cars – Blake Nelson
2. Destroy All Automobiles - Bunchofuckingoofs -- Destroy All Cars (continued) – Blake Nelson
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. In Dog We Trust - Bunchofuckingoofs
5. Fist Full Of Flies – Metallic Taste Of Blood -- Destroy All Cars (continued) – Blake Nelson
6. Excerpts From A Typical Hard Bop Blowing Session - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson -- Campbell – Colin Smith
7. Alcoholiday Turned Alcoholocaust - Bunchofuckingoofs

Part 2

1. Warriors Of Ice – Voivod
2. David Murray Dons A Cunning Alan Wilkinson Disguise And Blags His Way Onto A Bill At The Termite Club - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson -- Odious Twerpus / The Renderer Of Cold Realm – Colin Smith
3. Coke: The Real Thing For Real Assholes - Bunchofuckingoofs -- The Renderer Of Cold Realm (continued) – Colin Smith
4. King Cockroach – Metallic Taste Of Blood -- De Re Metallica – Georgius Agricola
5. Hogs Of War – Bunchofuckingoofs
6. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer -- De Re Metallica (continued) – Georgius Agricola

Carbonated Bippies & Royal Jelly

No.225, aired July 31, 2013, featuring readings from Royal Jelly (Black Rider Press, 2011) by Saskatoon’s Matthew Hall (1st half), and Desprit, from Carbonated Bippies! (Nomados, 2012) by Winnipeg’s Colin Smith (2nd half). I realized after air-time that Desprit should probably be pronounced less like a French word and more like "desperate."

Part 1

1. Royal Jelly 1 – Matthew Hall
2. Sickness – Royal Red Brigade
3. Symphony No.3, Op.18, I: Adagio-Allegro – Jacques Hetu -- Royal Jelly 2,3,4,5,6,7 – Matthew Hall
4. Piece Of Mind – Reminiscence Quartet -- Royal Jelly 7,8 – Matthew Hall
5. M13 – Derek Bailey -- Roal Jelly 9,10,11,12 – Matthew Hall
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Whiskey River – Comets On Fire

Part 2

1. Renegades - Royal Red Brigade
2. Symphony No.3, Op.18, II: Adagio – Jacques Hetu -- Desprit – Colin Smith
3. Death In The Suburbs – Diodes
4. Symphony No.3, Op.18, III: Allegro Vivace-Lento – Jacques Hetu -- Desprit (continued) – Colin Smith
5. Inner Space – Soundscape -- Desprit (continued) – Colin Smith
6. Piece Of Mind – Reminiscence Quartet -- Desprit (continued) – Colin Smith
7. M5 – Derek Bailey

Ovidscillatorial Gogol Amphibian

 No.224, aired July 24, 2013. First half of the program included a series of overlays upon A Band’s 21-minute Amphibian. Second half featured Out To Lunch’s mix of moments from the 6th Meeting of the Association of Musical Marxists, including his own reading of an extended passage from Eugune Gogol on Hegel’s Absolute Idea, accompanied by Paul Seacroft on guitar. Videos and additional info at:
http://unkant-publishing.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/amm6-amm-capitulates-to-hierarchical.html.

Part 1

1. CAKE! – A Band
2. Nights Like This – Kroovy Rookers
3. Amphibian – A Band -- Ovid / M9 – Derek Bailey / passage from Preface to Phenomenolgy of Spirit – G.W.F. Hegel / M12 – Derek Bailey / more Ovid
4. Here Comes The Judge – Kroovy Rookers
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. No More Boring Crap! – Kroovy Rookers

Part 2

1. AMM6: OTL’s Political Mix – Out To Lunch (featuring Dave Black, Oscillatorial Binnage, Felt Beakers, Esther Leslie, Keith Fisher, Ulli Freer, Mordecai Watson, Michel Prigeant, Paul Seacroft and Jacob Bard-Rosenberg)
2. Sally – Gogol Bordello
3. M6 – Derek Bailey

Have Gun, Will Travel

No.223, aired July 17, 2013. An unplanned episode lacking in conceptual wholeness but rich in suggestion & sonic energy, I hope. Audiobook heard throughout was the Commuters Library edition of (The Best Of) Have Gun Will Travel, Show 1: Three Bells To Perido. This was a radio program that originally aired in 1957. The audiobook preserves the original radio advertisements, three of which were featured here.

Part 1

1. Snodland – Soft Machine
2. Outta Town – B-Monster
3. 4 Songs For Soprano & Orchestra, Op.13, No.1 – Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra
4. Naked Machine Gun Girls – B-Monster
5. Viscous Delicious – Infected Mushroom
6. 4 Songs For Soprano & Orchestra, Op.13, No.2 – Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra
7. 4 Songs For Soprano & Orchestra, Op.13, No.3 – Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra
8. Psychobabble – Dog Eat Dog
9. Nettle Bed – Soft Machine

Part 2

1. Cockroach – Dog Eat Dog
2. 4 Songs For Soprano & Orchestra, Op.13, No.4 – Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra
3. Caveman – Dog Eat Dog
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Lo & Behold – B-Monster
6. Composition No.124 (+108D +96) – Anthony Braxton
7. Zombie Woof – Frank Zappa

In The Chambers Of His Imagery

No.222, aired July 10, 2013. Featured audiobook was Ezekiel Ch.6-10 from the Commuters Audio-Bible. In this episode I grappled for a connection between the Blakean view of gods as energies struggling within the human body (versus spirits with a separate existence) and Iancu Dumitrescu’s phenomenological approach to composition where he composes from inside the sonic material (rather than seeing instrumental timbres as pre-existing, as in Classical music).

I’ll keep working on that one, but I did enjoy this quote from the Book of Ezekiel that seems to equate the inner sanctum of the Temple with the unconscious:

“And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth” (8:7-12).

Part 1

1. A Love Radio – Royal Red Brigade
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Outta My Mind – Royal Red Brigade
4. Plutonian Frenzy – Iancu Dumitrescu
5. Made Of Stone – Spiral Beach

Part 2

1. No Soul To Sell – Royal Red Brigade
2. Melting Pot – DJ Yamaguchi -- “All journeys prove without destination” – Colin Simms / Grain – Graham Hill
3. Teddy Black – Spiral Beach
4. Speak For The Dead – Royal Red Brigade
5. Hyperspectres – Iancu Dumitrescu -- Outliers / The Owl Of Death And The Dancers (Picasso) – David Barnett
6. On The Loose – Slowly -- Earthworms - David Barnett / “I slide down the stairs of the sky” – Colin Simms
7. Sinking Ship – Royal Red Brigade
8. March Of The Crabs – Anvil

Common Blood

No.221, aired July 3, 2013. Began as a primer for the SNFU concert at the Exchange on Friday July 5. Lead vocalist Mr. Chi Pig, once the epitome of the leaping high-energy skate-punk, now 50, performed in a Chinese dress and demonstrated his cock-sucking skills with both ends of a beer bottle. All of SNFU’s live songs sound like fist-pumping anthems for the end of the world, but in this show the apocalyptic chorus “This is The End” was revealed to be about the back end of your body. The show also included She’s Not On The Menu, Joyride, Cockatoo Quill, and Painful Reminder. Regina’s Royal Red Brigade opened for SNFU, and will be featured in the July 10 program.

This episode held several half-formed thematic elements that simmered & threatened to bubble up into a conceptual umbrella. The “common” theme took shape after hearing Jungle’s Common Blood, when I impulsively shared a passage in Marx & Engels’ The German Ideology I had read earlier in the day on the historical relationship between individuals and their classes. The quote begins -

“The separate individuals from a class only insofar as they have to carry on a common battle against another class; Otherwise they are on hostile terms with each other as competitors” (82).

And the theme really took shape when the following passage from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (as always, selected at random) came up near the end of the program:

“Why do you deny me water? The enjoyment of water is a common right. Nature has not made the sun private to any, nor the air, nor soft water. This common right I seek.”

As the ancient “right” to water now lives under global threat by 21st century robber barons, it is time to ask why should anything not be common to all?

Part 1

1. Don’t Count On It – Swelter
2. She’s Not On The Menu – SNFU
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Money Matters - SNFU
5. Prophesy (Albert Ayler) – Eugene Chadbourne – Metamorphoses - Ovid
6. Whatever Would Beckett Have Said – Swelter
7. Common Blood – Jungle
8. Ochre Ringlet – Eugene Chadbourne -- on Individuals, Class and Community – Karl Marx & Frederic Engels, from The German Ideolgy / “Out of hill mist as often before” – Colin Simms (from Angel Exhaust 22, The Romance Of Insects)
9. Misfortune – SNFU

Part 2

1. Plastic Surgery Kept Her Beautiful – SNFU
2. The Man With The Prosthetic Head – Swelter
3. I Wanna Be Your Bicycle Seat – Acid Mothers Temple And The Drowning Paraiso UFO
4. Seeing Life Through The Bottom Of A Bottle – SNFU
5. Attack From Planet Hattifatteners - Acid Mothers Temple And The Drowning Paraiso UFO -- Wintering Snowy Owl In The Snowfields Above Eden - Colin Simms (from Angel Exhaust 22, The Romance Of Insects)
6. Desirade – Swelter
7. This Is The End – SNFU
8. The Walking Dead – Eugene Chadbourne
9. It’s So Fucking Great To Be Alive – Jungle
10. Exit Plexit - Simply Saucer

Break Iron Walls, Draw Tawdry Curtains

No.220, aired June 26, 2013. A belated summer solstice episode, with more passages from the Book of Ezekiel (Commuters Audio Bible) and readings from Cosmic Orgasm: The Music Of Iancu Dumitrescu, a new book from Unkant Press edited by Andy Wilson. 

The title of this episode comes from three quotes, the first of which is from the AMM statement by Out To Lunch:

“Blood in your eye! / Our poetry is not evasion, it draws back the tawdry curtain of celebrity and voyeurism which hides capitalism from itself, and from our hungry eyes” (Cosmic Orgasm, 85).

The second is from the Dumitrescu interview:

“The paths of art are infinite! Innumerable! If you divert from this fundamental search, like a simple ‘free’ artist, a thick, opaque, impenetrable wall bars your road” (Cosmic Orgasm, 84).

And the third is from the Book of Ezekiel:

“Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel” (4:3).

Part 1

1. Pemiyo-nakwan (Beautiful Dancing) – Young Spirit
2. Comeland – Muscle Bitches
3. M7 – Derek Bailey
4. Save The Nymphos – Muscle Bitches
5. Integrales – Edgar Varese / Ochestre National De France -- Our Kinetic Kynicism Knows NO BOUNDS – Out To Lunch
6. Red Sand (Intertribal): Hopi Song – Young Spirit
7. Country – Muscle Bitches
8. Mochikita (Having Fun!) – Young Spririt

Part 2

1. Noon Harras – Derek Bailey / John Zorn / William Parker -- In Resonance With Iancu Dumitrescu And Ana-Maria Avram (interview)
2. It’s Unanimous (Ow!-Ow!) – Stiffed
3. Ecuatorial – Edgar Varese / Ochestre National De France
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. What It’s Like – Stiffed
6. Invisible Dimension – Forbidden Dimension

European Rocket Fuel

No.219, aired June 12, 2013. Blake’s Europe read with Ana-Maria Avram’s two epic desert pieces. The audiobook of Ezekiel with Acid Blues Project. A trump of doom for the urban dunes.

Part 1

1. Answer Me - Satanatras
2. Winds Of The Desert – Ana-Maria Avram
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Black Betty – Spiderbait
5. Going To New York City – Acid Blues Project
6. Sweatin To The Gallows – Kathleen Turner Overdrive

Part 2

1. Rocket Fuel – Spiral Beach
2. Dig This – Acid Blues Project
3. Voices Of The Desert – Ana-Maria Avram
4. Astro Girls – Spiral Beach
5. Wild And Fuzzy - Satanatras

Acousmatic Provoker

No.218, aired June 5, 2013. Right before I went on air one week earlier (Wednesday, May 29), I realized I had the wrong CDs in my hand - instead of the planned selections, I was holding some extras I had brought along, and in briefly wondering what kind of show I could create with only those five CDs, I experienced a moment of creative freedom – thus this follow-up program.

Here are the five CDs:
Minute Album - Emetics
Sex Mad – Nomeansno
Primipara - Static Eyesore
New Hot Spirits - Tangiers
Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life: Because Your Life Has Meaning - by Rav Michael Laitman PHD

No, I did not limit the show entirely to these five items. In the first place, I got bored of Michael Laitman’s audiobook, and secondly, I found Static Eyesore’s minimal electronic music could not carry the program’s entire instrumental requirement. The answer to both deficiencies was Iancu Dumitrescu – an interview text from Cosmic Orgasm: The Music Of Iancu Dumitrescu, a new book by Unkant press, edited by Andy Wilson, which had arrived at my house that day; and Harryphonies (Epsilon), a 19-minute work for soloists and orchestra from Dumitrescu’s ED MN 1003.

Part 1

1. No Fkuicgn – Nomeansno
2. Gravel Villain – Emetics
3. Red Stone Rocks – Tangiers
4. Mju 16 – Emetics
5. Upon Jade Flute – Static Eyesore -- Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life
6. Dead Bob – Nomeansno
7. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
8. Wreckless Drivers – Emetics
9. Keep The Living Bodies Warm – Tangiers
10. Sporin, The Destructor Sun – Static Eyesore -- Iancu Dumitrescu – Acousmatic Provoker – Interview by Josh Ronsen, Gilles Peyret, Serge Leroy
11. Shocked – Tangiers

Part 2

1. Sex Mad – Nomeansno
2. Harryphonies (Epsilon) – Iancu Dumitrescu / Orchestre National De Chambre De Roumaine -- Iancu Dumitrescu – Acousmatic Provoker – Interview by Josh Ronsen, Gilles Peyret, Serge Leroy
3. Love Thang – Nomeansno
4. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic -- Iancu Dumitrescu – Acousmatic Provoker – Interview by Josh Ronsen, Gilles Peyret, Serge Leroy

To Fly Where No Pigeon Has Flown Before!

No.217, aired May 29, 2013. With a reading of Colin Smith’s Desprit, from Carbonated Bippies! (Nomados, 2012), and more passages from Charles Darwin’s The Origin Of Species (Tantor audiobook ed., read by David Case). Episode title references a line in Carbonated Bippies – at page 20, with “pigeon” substituted for “Seagull” – and a notice on a window at the landing between the 2nd & 3rd floor of the old GMC Building (where CJTR’s studio and offices are) saying to keep the window closed, as a pigeon had gotten into the building. Fittingly, Darwin, through Case, lectures at length on wild & domestic pigeons. It may be worth mentioning that Smith’s poem Desprit, at pg.8, contains a reference to a pigeon (or a dove rather, which to a naturalist is no more than a white pigeon, despite the symbolic resonance of colour) – “May the Seven Doves rest on your shoulders.”

Part 1

1. Race Riot – D.O.A.
2. Lettre A Un Ami – Denis Gougeon -- Desprit – Colin Smith
3. Into The Void – Monster Magnet
4. Nazi Training Camp – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Slave To My Dick – Subhumans
2. l’Odyssee d’Alfred Le Serpent – Myke Roy – Desprit (con’t) – Colin Smith
3. I Want More – Monster Magnet
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere – Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
6. Communication Breakdown – D.O.A.
7. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans

Creation Creating Is Creator

No.216, aired May 22, 2013, with live readings of two theses from Guy Debord’s Society Of The Spectacle (see notes in playlist), and passages from the audiobook edition of Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life: Because Your Life Has Meaning, by Rav Michael Laitman PHD, replete with references to “Figure 4”, etc., which I imagine must be referring to the sound figures created by Sun Ra & Burro, as there are no print materials in the CD package.

If I had pre-listened to the Laitman CD, I would have included some poetry by Robert Betteridge, who wrote, in Poem No.7 of a cosmic word horde called “Polar Perambulations” –

THERE ARE NONE
THERE ARE NOT
      ANY
THAT ARE NOT
      A PART
OF THE “THAT”
      THAT IS
THAT IS THE “IS”
THAT IS ISING
FOR
CREATION CREATING
       IS CREATOR
CREATOR CREATING
       IS CREATION
THE ALL IN ONE
THE ONE IN ALL
        EVOLVING

Which, like the poetry of Sun Ra, is a less stageist, more concise statement of macro/micro cosmic creative wholeness. Guy Debord steps in to remind us of the historical basis for class-based separation of creation & creator under capitalism, revealing Laitman’s “steps” as class struggle.

A correction: I attributed the quote “everything is possible, nothing is permitted” to William S. Burroughs. That quote is my own, although a quick google search confirms it is far from original. The Burroughs quote I was thinking of, which appears in various places in his writing, is "Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted." Now I wonder what’s the relationship between Burroughs and Burro. Draw your own conclusions, space traveller.

This episode receives a “Best Episode Ever” nomination from the religious wing of the Universal Inventory Of Existence.

Part 1

1. MAD – Napalm Death
2. Gobots Giver – Emetics
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Septui 2 – Emetics
5. Diving Death – Napalm Death
6. Chelsea Boys – Burro -- Thesis No.24 – Guy Debord
7. The Magic City – Sun Ra

Part 2

1. The Magic City (con’t) – Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra
2. Alpha Punk – Ripcordz
3. Burnt Sonic Toast – Burro -- Thesis No.25 – Guy Debord
4. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

4th Anniversary Special

No.210, aired November 14, 2012, between episodes numbered 192 and 194, but was never blogged until now. Then I realized there was no. 193 so used that number for a different episode, then discovered this one when sorting my papers, so it gets to be no 210. Featuring bands I had never heard of before the past 12 months, plus tracks from Frank Zappa’s Lather, the CD that inspired Naval Aviation In Audio’s violent approach to musical genre.

Part 1

1. New Rock Kritic – Skull Kontrol
2. VAP DIST For Orchestra, Mvt.1 -- More Delicious Prey – Maggie O’Sullivan
3. Honey Don’t You Want A Man Like Me – Frank Zappa
4. Hell Is Other People – Contaminate
5. Maladaptive – Metallic Taste Of Blood -- What Is Behind That Where The Curtains That CCCCC Urtain Gently Blowing? – Maggie O’Sullivan
6. Punky’s Whips – Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Two Winds – Rake
2. Combing The Desert – Pigment Vehicle
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Let’s Set Up North On Fire – Sailboats Are White
5. The Purple Lagoon – Frank Zappa -- Prelude To Through The Eastern Gate – Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman
6. 1,000 Cigarettes - MSTRKRFT

The Crest And Crash Of Waves On The Broken Surface Of Flax

No.215, aired May 15, 2013. Featured performances of Matthew Hall’s Hyaline (Black Rider Press, 2013), with music by Iancu Dumitrescu (the subject of a new book titled Cosmic Orgasm, edited by Andy Wilson for Unkant press), Grant Green, and Bill Laswell.
 
Part 1
1. Eisenhower & The Hippies – U-J3RK5
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Television Man – Man Or Astroman?
4. Grand Ourse – Iancu Dumitrescu -- Anointment / Seasons – Matthew Hall
5. Planet Collision – Man Or Astroman?
6. Disco Sucks – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Real Thing – The Pointed Sticks
2. I Am Somebody – Grant Green -- Artiface – Matthew Hall
3. Mystery Train – The Scissors
4. Music Is Your Body – The Moral Lepers
5. Cybotron – Bill Laswell -- Eclogue (Killdeer) / A Pattern Of Settlement / The Woods / Homestead: A Palimpsest / Six Preludial Songs Called Captivity – Matthew Hall
6. March Of The Crabs – Anvil
7. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Death To The Sickoids

No.214, aired May 1, 2013, with more of Charles Darwin’s The Origin Of Species and Ornette Coleman’s 1961 album Free Jazz. Evolution is envisioned as world-wide collective improvization – with a running death theme. The Subhumans title “Death To The Sickoids” (not to mention their band name) becomes a joke on “natural” selection, an argument for human agency in evolution – rather than the losers in competition for survival, the “sickoids” are the ruling class, a class that will cease to exist in an time of socialist revolution.

Part 1

1. Death To The Sickoids – Subhumans
2. Free Jazz – Ornette Coleman

Part 2

1. Free Jazz (con’t) – Ornette Coleman
2. Dead Bob – Nomeansno
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Death Was Too Kind – Subhumans
5. The Death Of Time – Secret Saucer -- Neigbourhood In A Brain Cell - Colin Smith
6. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans
7. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

The Struggle To Survive

No.213 – April 25, 2013. Featuring Charles Darwin’s The Origin Of Species (Tantor audiobook ed., read by David Case) and music by Iancu Dumitrescu. Domestic variations revert, run wild in the spectral fields of Dumitrescu’s orgazmic cosmos, Darwin’s meditations on the struggle to survive are a fossil re-animated, incited back into agonizing life & spinning thru primoridal galactic swarm to spread its ecstatic seed in the universal rut.

Part 1

1. Theory Of Natural Selection – Bluebeard
2. Organs – Comets On Fire
3. Cmd – Bunchofuckingoofs
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Pierre Sacrees – Iancu Dumitrescu
6. Busy Bee – King Cobb Steelie
7. Free Kill Pass – Lungbutter

Part 2

1. Meditation II – Pericardium
2. The Bee And The Cracking Egg – Comets On Fire
3. Harryphones (Alpha) – Iancu Dumitrescu

Carbonated Bippies Again!

No. 212, aired April 17, 2013, with the same content as No.211, so folks who missed it the first time around would have a chance to hear it.

Carbonated Bippies!

No.211, aired apr10, 2013, featuring readings from Colin Smith's chapbook titled Carbonated Bippies! (Nomados, 2012).

Part 1

1. Dewy Drops Of Spring – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
2. Coke – The Real Thing For Real Assholes – Bunchofuckingoofs -- The Renderer Of Cold Realm (with apologies to Wallace Stevens) – Colin Smith
3. Whatever Would Becket Have Said – Swelter
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Alcholiday Turned Alcoholocaust – Bunchofuckingoofs
6. La Nave del Poeta – Ada Rave Cuarto -- Campbell (with savage apologies to Phyllis Webb) / Odious Twerpus (with apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley) – Colin Smith
7. The Death Of Time – Secret Saucer -- Neighbourhood In A Brain Cell – Colin Smith
8. The Gods Were Fucking – Swelter
9. M9 – Derek Bailey -- Wronginess – Colin Smith

Part 2

1. In Dog We Trust – Bunchofuckingoofs
2. Mitologias Ciudadanas – Ada Rave Cuarto -- Desprit – Colin Smith
3. Staggering Into The Night – Swelter
4. Integrator – Secret Saucer -- Desprit (con’t) – Colin Smith
5. Hogs Of War – Bunchofuckingoofs
6. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic -- Desprit (con’t) – Colin Smith

Them Or Us ... In France!

No.209, aired March 27, 2013, featuring the remaining part of THF Drenching’s Doomed Shop! (Part One): A Proletarian Collage-Oratorio by THF Drenching, based on Karl Marx’s “The Class Struggles In France 1848-1850” plus a preview of the yet-to-be-released Part Two. More info at: http://www.councilofdrent.com/doomedshop.html.

Part 1

1. In France – Frank Zappa
2. Doomed Shop Part One (“Only under bourgeois rule...”) – THF Drenching
3. War And Pain – Voivod
4. Doomed Thinking Man Vs. Stupid Action Man – King Cobb Steelie
5. Dice Of The Knucklebone – Swelter
6. Doomed Shop Part One (“With the introduction of the republic...”) – THF Drenching
7. Irrational – King Cobb Steelie

Part 2

1. Doomed Shop Part One (“Public credit shaken...”) – THF Drenching
2. Partner – Lungbutter
3. Marque-Son’s Chicken – Frank Zappa
4. Doomed Shop Part Two (“Recourse had to be taken...”) – THF Drenching
5. Iron Gang – Voivod
6. Them Or Us – Frank Zappa

The President's Rite Of Spring

No.208, aired March 20, 2013. The Annual Rite of Spring episode, featuring Bill Clinton’s My Life, read by the Author (2004, Random House ed.).

Part 1

1. Double Life – Career Suicide
2. Part I: The Adoration Of The Earth (Introduction) – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
3. Show Me Your Sex Face – Lungbutter
4. Young Girl’s Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5. Recipe For Disaster – Career Suicide
6. Mock Abduction – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Television Assassination – Lungbutter
8. Round Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
9. Play The Part – Career Suicide
10. Games Of Rival Tribes / Wise Elder’s Procession / Dance Of The Earth – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2

1. Part II: The Sacrifice (Introduction) – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Be So Dreamy – Shrimp
3. Mystic Circles – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Streaker – Shrimp
5. Glorification / Summoning The Ancients – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. I’m Drunk Let’s Fuck – Shrimp
7. Ancients’ Ritual – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Big Giant Head – Lungbutter
9. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
10. Sacrificial Dance – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Dance Of The Headless Bourgeoisie

No.207, aired March 13, 2013. Second episode featuring Doomed Shop! (Part One): A Proletarian Collage-Oratorio by THF Drenching, based on Karl Marx’s “The Class Struggles In France 1848-1850.” More info at: http://www.councilofdrent.com/doomedshop.html.

Part 1

1. Mange Avec Tes Doigts – Les Georges Leningrad
2. Doomed Shop! (“Potato blight 1845...”) – THF Drenching
3. Peur Sur La Ville – John Zorn
4. Political Prisoner – Dog Eat Dogma
5. Doomed Shop! (“It is well known how...”) – THF Drenching
6. Warning Against Judging A Christian Brother – Hylozoists

Part 2

1. Doomed Shop! (“A republic by force of arms!”) – THF Drenching
2. Sleek Answer – Les Georges Leningrad
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Doomed Shop! (“All classes of French society...”) – THF Drenching
5. Dance Of The Headless Bourgeoisie – Nomeansno
6. Doomed Shop! (“Decree on the Right to Work”) – THF Drenching
7. Mon Dieu – Dog Eat Dogma
8. Green Onion – Booker T & The MGs
9. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Crapuleux, Money, Filth, Blood!

No.206, aired February 27, 2013 (blogged March 6 episode earlier, so numbering is out of sequence). The first of three episodes to feature Doomed Shop! (Part One): A Proletarian Collage-Oratorio by THF Drenching, based on Karl Marx’s “The Class Struggles In France 1848-1850.” More info & full libretto available at: http://www.councilofdrent.com/doomedshop.html. Marx’s text can be read at:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/class-struggles-france/index.htm.

Part 1

1. Doomed Shop! (“From now on the bankers will rule.”) – THF Drenching
2. Smash The State – D.O.A.
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Doomed Shop! (“It was not the French bourgeoisie...”) – THF Drenching
5. Herr Noit – Lederhosen Lucil
6. Doomed Shop! (“The industrial bourgeoisie proper...”) – THF Drenching
7. The People Is Never Corrupt – Hylozoists
8. The Enemy – D.O.A.
9. Doomed Shop! (“Owing to its financial straits...”) – THF Drenching

Part 2

1. Doomed Shop! (“But the state defecit...”) – THF Drenching
2. Class War – D.O.A.
3. Parisian Eyes – Hylozoists
4. The Crippled Giant – Hylozoists
5. Doomed Shop! (“The July monarchy was nothing other than...”) – THF Drenching
6. Sigh About This – Lederhosen Lucil
7. Doomed Shop! (“Crapuleux, money, filth, blood!”) – THF Drenching
8. March Of The Crabs – Anvil
9. Waiting For You – D.O.A.

Lunchmeatophillia As Pinned-Up Chime Glistening

No.205, aired March 6, 2013. Another tribute to Late Lunch With Out To Lunch, recently taken Resonance FM in London due to listener complaints. Included readings and vocal-gestural interpretations of OTL’s Smooch Tentet Resolve (Veer, 2010).

Part 1

1. Tomatelo Con Soda – Ada Rave Cuarto
2. Wake Up – Nomeansno
3. Out To Lunch – Ada Rave Cuarto
4. The Hawk Killed The Punk – Nomeansno
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Hat And Beard – Eric Dolphy
7. La Vendetta – King Cobb Steelie

Part 2

1. The Day Everything Became Nothing - Nomeansno
2. Lunchmeatophobia (Think! It Ain’t Illegal Yet!) - Funkadelic
3. Gazzelloni – Eric Dolphy
4. My American Partner – King Cobb Steelie
5. Dead Souls – Nomeansno
6. Art 3 – Jaworzyn/Wilkinson/Fell
7. Utopias Humanicas – Ada Rave Cuarto

Interweaving Morphic Resonances

No.204, aired February 20, 2013, featuring poetry from a collection called Polar Perambulations: Variations And Combinations Within A Four Course Meal by Regina’s Robert Betteridge. As a show of solidarity with Late Lunch With Out To Lunch, a radio show in London, U.K. that has been taken off the air due to complaints, I played the Late Lunch theme music (Make A Blues Noise Here by Marc Guillermont) while performing the opening page from OTL’s Smooch Tentet Resolve.

Part 1

1. The Old Git Song – Diary
2. Medicine Men – Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey
3. One Sin – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. Naval Aviation In Art – Frank Zappa
5. Blackout City Nights – Royal Red Brigade
6. Endless Burning Fire – Ana-Maria Avram
7. Lost Cause – Royal Red Brigade

Part 2

1. Biting The Hand – Kleins 96
2. Make A Blues Noise Here – Marc Guillermont
3. Rolling Home – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. The Advocate – Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey
5. Trojan Whores – Kleins 96
6. Instant Events #1 – Ian Stonehouse & Sebastian Lexer
7. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic

Flexed Bowstrings & OOZE

No.203, aired February 13, 2013. Audiobook was Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Live readings were Out Of The Blue and Out You Come from Oort’s Cloud by John Wilkinson. Organization of materials was based on the letter O.

Part 1

1. Old Horse Whore – The Dinner Is Ruined Band
2. O Argaleios – George Koufogiannakis
3. Bobby Orr - The Dinner Is Ruined Band
4. Kaelin’s Mood – George Koufogiannakis
5. Douce Amnesie – Animal Slaves
6. Holwege For Solo Viola – Iancu Dumitrescu (comp.) / loan-Marius Lacraru (soloist)

Part 2

1. Work For Your Money – Howlin’ Wolf
2. Naval Aviation In Art – Frank Zappa
3. Yo Mo Oud – George Koufogiannakis
4. Behind Those Eyes – Diodes
5. Gnosis For Solo Doublebass – Iancu Dumitrescu (comp.) / Ion Ghita (soloist)
6. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

The Plastic Duck Machine

No.202, aired February 6, 2013. Featured audiobook was Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, by Donovan Hohn, narrated by Christopher Evan Welch..

Part 1

1. Alligator Wine – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Snake Dance – Monster Magnet
4. String Quartet No.4, Op.37, Mvt.3 – Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet
5. I Wish You Would – Ugly Ducklings
6. Continent And Western – Fond Of Tigers

Part 2

1. Nothin’ – Ugly Ducklings
2. String Quartet No.4, Op.37, Mvt.4 – Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet
3. There’s Something Wrong With You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. Black Mastermind – Monster Magnet
5. Soheb – Fond Of Tigers
6. Rimb Nugget - Ugly Ducklings

Minute Men Blather Routine

No.201, aired January 30, 2013, with further readings from J.H. Prynne’s Poems. The 2003 poem “Biting The Air” was continued from episode 200, then two portions published in 1971 were read: “Night Square,” and “On Sanguine Fire” from the book Brass.

Part 1

1. Fuel’s For Fools – Emetics
2. POWMIA – Brutal Knights
3. Pounds of Squelch – Emetics
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Free For All – Art Blakey & Friends -- Biting The Air (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
6. Kontakte (Teil 2) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Biting The Air (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
7. Want Action – Kill Cheerleader
8. Kontakte  (Teil 2, con’t) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Biting The Air (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
9. Bad Habit – Kill Cheerleader

Part 2

1. Kontakte  (Teil 2, con’t) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Night Square – J.H. Prynne
2. Find Your Own Way Home – Kill Cheerleader
3. Kontakte II (Teil 2, con’t) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Night Square (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
4. One By One – Art Blakey & Friends -- On Sanguine Fire – J.H. Prynne
5. Gobot’s Giver – Emetics
6. Living By Yourself – Brutal Knights
7. Septui 2 – Emetics
8. Gypsey – Art Blakey -- On Sanguine Fire (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
9. Why The Beard – Brutal Knights

Whipping Toy Forms

No.200, aired January 23, 2013, with readings from J.H. Prynne’s 2003 poem Biting The Air.
 
The first half of the program was devoted to a musical thot experiment in which I played tracks from GWAR’s 1988 Hell-O alternating with 3 pieces from John Colrane’s 1959 Giant Steps.
 
The ear loves the unexpected, and is easy to fool. In marketing terms, Giant Steps is jazz, merely: society music, co-opted, recuperated, safe – & in the past that is how I have received it. Even for jazz musicians Giant Steps is considered an “exercise” – something to master & then move on from. And the hard-core habit can also be a great deadener, even the monstrous perversity of GWAR warms into a fuzzy bath if not lifted out of its sci-fi punk/metal niche market.
 
So I am mixing the two. Is this epicurian eclectisism, the aesthete requires variety in his consumption? The contrast brings out the distinct flavours? Yes, but more than that. The aural miscegenation spurs actual thot.
 
In Love with a Dead Dog is a depraved joke that nevertheless follows the conventions of a love song, invokes those cliches, laughs at them. At the climax, the love object dies, then the heavy metal riff returns & order is restored. This is illness. Then the drums at the beginning of the Coltrane quartet’s Countown dramatize the moment of illness. Coltrane’s Tenor sax appears and I can hear it as breakdown, madness. In the GWAR context I can hear the frantic energy of the players. It sounds insanely fast compared to what jazz should be - jazz on speed. Occasional conventional jazz runs embedded in the session sound parodic. This segues into GWAR's Slutman City, which, after the warm accoustic aura, sounds ugly and threatening. Something really awful is happening - another gruesome GWAR character arrives at a city of life without shame, & again, GWAR delivers on the violent promise of rock. But these sleezy riffs & perverse anthems would be nearly inaudible if the CD was played straight through. Coltrane’s Spiral comes on but the ear is still living in the slums of Slutman City - the jazz band is playing in a club, but the horror show is still going. The music is jazz, but it is describing, or accompanying, some abominable act in an aggressively detached way – is that possible? The band is telling a story about something very human and very touching. There is a musical argument here as well. The musical mind keeps wandering, then catches itself again. Hiddeous monsters are dancing in an elegant ballroom. Are they feasting on human flesh? Am I hearing this quartet’s underlying anger, or is it only my own fantasy? It is music for a TV show or movie. Quick-cutting, tons of action into a small space, a drama as memory-dream sequence. Then a slower GWAR track, War Toy, feels epic, like I have been listening for a hundred years. It describes a toy, but it sounds like the depraved narrator has a child slave. The track seems like a review of something, the toy or the GWAR album itself, or rather GWAR's stage show & mythos - “Let's all go drink and kill and fart ... Now sure it's fun but is it art?"
 
The above was written the weekend before my program, when I plugged in the GWAR disc, but thanks to my media player’s shuffle feature heard instead “Countdown” from Giant Steps, and was shocked. During the program, I read poetry by J.H. Prynne that added a hole nuther level of nasty to the mix, but I haven’t had time to make detailed notes, except that the song “War Toy” is introduced with the following words, read at the end of “Spiral” – “You didn’t know that oh really how extended even so familar / whipping toy forms as a habit too lapped across its place setting nroe sougth nor bought fancy never braved: infinity”
 
Part 1

1. Ein Stitcher – Emetics
2. Captain Crunch – GWAR
3. Cousin Mary – John Coltrane
4. I’m In Love (With A Dead Dog) – GWAR
5. Countownd – John Coltrane
6. Slutman City – GWAR
7. Spiral – John Coltrane
8. War Toy - GWAR
 
Part 2

1. Obawa The Collar Boy – Emetics
2. 10-30 Train – Ugly Ducklings
3. You’d Better Register – Static Eyesore
4. Creatures Of Habit – Contaminate
5. Lil’ Copulator – Emetics
6. This Means War – Contaminate
7. Pinch It – Static Eyesore
8. Freakin – Emetics
9. Just In Case You Wonder – Ugly Ducklings
10. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
11. Jinx The Larynx – Emetics
12. Hell Is Other People – Contaminate
13. I Need Your Love – Ugly Ducklings
14. Barry Bongwater – Contaminate
15. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Hardcore Jollies Utopica With Tencer Tentacles

No.199, aired January 16, 2013, with live performance of New York poet Michael Tencer’s latest verbal compositions & a few passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses on audiobook. Main accompanying event, musically speaking, was Luigi Nono’s La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura played simultaneously with 4 percussion pieces by Iannis Xenakis. Best episode ever (& I mean it this time!).

Part 1

1. Loose Heels – White Lung
2. Hardcore Jollies – Funkadelic
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Hand It To The Devil – Sailboats Are White
5. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, For Violin & 8 Magnetic Tapes – Luigi Nono -- Okho / Rebond B – Iannis Xenakis

Part 2

1. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, For Violin & 8 Magnetic Tapes (continued) – Luigi Nono -- Rebond A / Psappha – Iannis Xenakis
2. Who Says A Funk Band Can’t Play Rock? – Funkadelic
3. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT

Rake Cancelled Rungs Of The Backbone Vault

No.198, aired January 9, 2013, with readings from Stuart Calton’s poem “The Torn Instructions For No Trebuchet Digest Part One” accompanied by two Canadian improvizing trios: Rake and Simon Abbott & Bent Spoon Duo.

Part 1

1. Five Songs, Op.4 – IV – Anton Webern

2. Calling – Rake -- poetry by Stuart Calton

3. Call Me Rover – Skull Kontrol

4. Five Songs, Op.4 – I – Anton Webern

5. Aristocrat – White Lung

6. There – Rake -- poetry by Stuart Calton

7. Five Songs, Op.4 – II – Anton Webern

8. Falling - Rake -- poetry by Stuart Calton

9. How The East Was Lost – Sailboats Are White

Part 2

1. Saigon You Crazy Diamond (part 2) - Simon Abbott & Bent Spoon Duo -- poetry by Stuart Calton –- 3 of Webern’s Five Songs, Op.4 played simultaneously with SA & BSD: song III (at beginning), song IV (midway), song V (end)

2. Camoflage – Skull Kontrol

3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa

4. Satan Is Jesus To Me – Skull Kontrol

5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Holiday in Babylon

No.197, aired January 2, 2013. Featuring Michael Tencer’s Holiday In New York, Stuart Calton reading Out To Lunch’s F’Luke, and the complete Burnt Weenie Sandwich album by the Mothers of Invention, whose immaculate sandwich structure has been adopted in many forms in the programming strategy of NAIA. Title is a reference to the Book of Daniel, in which Hebrew youth exiled in Babylon become reluctant prophets and enjoy the favours of the king. Unplanned serendipitous moment was hearing the line from F’Luke “pushing us into a new dimension” to the accompaniment of Forbidden Dimension’s Invisible Dimension.

Part 1

1. I Do Nothing – Brutal Knights
2. Igor’s Boogie, Phase One – The Mothers Of Invention
3. Atlanta – White Lung
4. Overture To A Holiday In Berlin – The Mothers Of Invention
5. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans -- Holiday In New York – Michael Tencer
6. Theme From Burnt Weenie Sandwich – The Mothers Of Invention -- Book of Daniel Chapter 1
7. Firing Squad – Subhumans
8. Igor’s Boogie, Phase Two – The Mothers Of Invention
9. I Hate Chores – Brutal Knights
10. Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown – The Mothers Of Invention -- Book of Daniel Chapter 11
11. Bad Choice – Brutal Knights
12. Aybe Sea – The Mothers Of Invention

Part 2

1. WPLJ – The Mothers Of Invention
2. Little House I Used To Live In – The Mothers Of Invention
3. Invisible Dimension – Forbidden Dimension -- F'Luke – poem by Out To Lunch read by Stuart Calton
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Valerie – The Mothers Of Invention

Horns At War With Santa

No.193, aired December 26, 2012 [episode number is out of sequence because I forgot to use 193 and didn’t want to renumber].

A continuation of the End of the World theme, with Chapters 7-10 from the Book of Daniel and the second half of THF Drenching’s Tape Team J19, which made the baby Jesus smile.

Part 1.

1. It’s After The End Of The World – Sun Ra & the Intergalactic Research Arkestra
2. This Is The End – SNFU
3. We’ll Wait For You – Sun Ra & the Intergalactic Research Arkestra
4. Joy Ride – SNFU
5. TTJ11 – TTJ14 – THF Drenching
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Bodies In The Wall – SNFU

Part 2

1. Single – THF Drenching
2. Get Off Your Ass – SNFU
3. TTJ16 – TTJ18 – THF Drenching
4. Journey Through Outer Darkness – Sun Ra & the Intergalactic Research Arkestra
5. Rand – THF Drenching
6. Loser At Life/Loser At Death - SNFU

Don’t They Know It’s End Of The World!?

No.196, aired December 19, 2012, with two simultaneous audiobooks: Climate Watch Audio Series: Impacts, and The Book of Daniel, from the Commuters Audio Bible.

Part 1

1. The Night Nothing Became Everything – Nomeansno
2. A House Of Beauty – Sun Ra
3. Ragnarok – GWAR
4. The Sun Myth – Sun Ra
5. Waiting For You – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Slaughter In A Grave – Voivod
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. The End Of All Things – Nomeansno
4. Cosmic Chaos – Sun Ra
5. Crush, Kill, Destroy - GWAR

Vigorous Circular Motion - One More Time For The World!

No. 195, aired December 5, 2012. Some folks didn’t get a chance to hear the November 21 broadcast of “Vigorous Circular Motion” – so I played essentially the same material, but forgot my copy of Finnegans Wake, so read instead, with Metallic Taste of Blood, several plates of William Blake reproduced in Ben Watson’s Blake In Cambridge (Unkant, 2012).

Vigorous Circular Motion

No.194, aired November 21, 2012. Audiobook was Climate Watch Audio Series: Origins. Read first two pages of “Anna Liva Plurabelle” from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, itself a vigorous circle, ending on the word “Suchcaughtawan!” Music included the arctic-themed first four tracks of Frank Zappa's Apostrophe, Faces and Places from Ornette Coleman's Live From the Golden Circle, and Captain Beefheart's Circumstances. A “Best Episode Ever” candidate.

Part 1

1. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow – Frank Zappa
2. Triple Shot – Shane Philip
3. Nanook Rubs It – Frank Zappa
4. Snague Puro – Les Georges Leningrad
5. St. Alphonzo’s Pancake Breakfast – Frank Zappa
6. Octopus – Shane Philip
7. Father O’Blivion – Frank Zappa
8. Ennio Morricone – Les Georges Leningrad

Part 2

1. Mammal Beats – Les Georges Leningrad
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Face and Places – Ornette Coleman
4. Circumstances – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Glass Chewer – Metallic Taste Of Blood
6. Eli, Eli Lamma Sabacthani – Les Georges Leningrad
7. 1,000 Cigarettes - MSTRKRFT