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