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