Mama Zoom In The Crystal Rainbow Pyramid

No.121, aired May 18, 2011 – second 9-10 episode, featuring a live reading of 3 poems by Anne Szumigalski.

Part 1

1. Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
2. Changing Arranging – Alice Cooper
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Hockey Night In Canada – John Weinzweig
5. Brenda – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
6. Hello Rico – John Weinzweig
7. Ailantus Glandulosa – AMM
8. Reid’s Situation – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
9. My Dear, Etcetera – John Weinzweig
10. Great Day – Storm, Inc.

Part 2

1. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
2. I Killed Mommy – Dayglo Abortions
3. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid – Acid Mothers Temple -- Alice Long / Viaticum: The Text / Gerald – Anne Szumigalski
4. Greyhound - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
5. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Sailing Into Neptune

No.101, aired December 15, 2010.

If Uranus was the “Aviation” this episode brings the “Naval”, the final stop on our interplanetary voyage, landing at last on the seas of Neptune. Ezra Pound’s Canto II was read with the final track from Holst’s The Planets (Canto I was read on December 26, 2008, meaning I will have read all 120 Cantos on air by 2247!) And with the Winter Solstice only a week away we continued with the audiobook of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.

Part 1

1. Gilligan’s Island – Rude Norton
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Interplanetary Love - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
4. Sea Cruise – Rude Norton
5. Ego, The Living Planet – Monster Magnet
6. The Planets, Op.32, Neptune, The Mystic – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
7. Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty And Bones – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. 1983 ... (A Merman I should Turn To Be) - Jimi Hendrix
2. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Angels Saints & Demons
3. Moon Turn The Tides ... Gently Gently Away - Jimi Hendrix
4. Neptune (The Planet) – The Bad Plus
5. Anime Eyes – The Awkward Stage

Flying Into Uranus

No.100, aired December 8, 2010.

Visited the magical cloud world of Uranus with Man Or Astro-man? (who recorded a live album from Uranus) as featured artist. Spoken word component was KRS Edstrom’s Fly Without Fear: Guided Meditations For A Relaxing Flight.

Part 1

1. Stereo Phase Test – Man Or Astro-man?
2. Zone Of Compass Reliability – Tristan Psionic
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Maximum Radiation Level – Man Or Astro-man?
5. Jeff Starship – CPC Gangbangs
6. Planet Collision – Man Or Astro-man?
7. I’m A Stranger Here – Five Man Electrical Band
8. Evil Plans Of Planet Spectra – Man Or Astro-man?
9. Lucky Star – Tristan Psionic

Part 2

1. Anoxia – Man Or Astro-man?
2. The Planets, Op.32, Uranus, The Magician – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
3. Anus Of Uranus – Klaatu
4. Techno’s Song – GWAR
5. Television Fission – Man Or Astro-man?
6. Attack From Planet Hattifatteners – Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
7. Television Man – Man Or Astro-man?
8. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic
9. Sailing - Ripcordz

Jumping For Jove

No.95, aired November 3, 2010, continuing the interplanetary journey with a trip to Jupiter, including a live reading of Canto 18 from Dante's Paradiso.

Part 1

1. Rocket Number 9 – Sun Ra
2. Get Away From It All – Northwest Company
3. The Planets, Op.32, Jupiter, The Bringer Of Joy – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) -- Paradiso Canto 18 – Dante Alighieri
4. Space Weiner – Lungbutter
5. Art Of The State – Dog Eat Dogma
6. Jupiter – John Coltrane
7. Outer Space – The Radfords

Part 2

1. Buy The Moons Of Jupiter – Acid Mothers Temple & The Drowning Paraiso U.F.O.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Voodoo Chile – Jimi Hendrix
4. Jupiter Variation – John Coltrane
5. That’s Why I’m An Athiest – D.O.A.
6. Sailing – Ripcordz

Pure As Arctic Snow

No. 63, aired February 24, 2010.

A very geological episode featuring an on-air reading from Christian Bok’s Crystallography, a book of ice so clean you can see yourself in it.

Part 1

1. Trapped Under Ice - Metallica
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. New Meteors & Pulsars – Iancu Dumitrescu / Hyperion Ensemble -- Geodes – Christian Bok
4. Pure As The Arctic Snow – GWAR
5. I (Fuck) Mountains – Pink Mountaintops

Part 2

1. Call Of The Triumphant – Thor
2. No Emotion – Hanson Brothers
3. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid – Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO -- (epigraph to Crystallography by M.C. Escher) / Krystallos / Katharsis / Kalokagathia / Crystals (Preliminary Survey) / The Hagiography of Snow: Preface / Krystalloneiros / Crystals / “Turbulent winds ...” / Crystals (Euclid & His Modern Rivals) – Christian Bok
4. Electric Jewels – April Wine

Winter Solstice Special 2009

Aired December 23, 2009. Spoken word snippets came from Frank Zappa's Opera Pantomime Civilization Phase III.

Part 1

1. "Dark water!" - Frank Zappa
2. Dark Holler - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. "Have you heard their band?" - Frank Zappa
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Gone Black - CPC Gangbangs
6. Eleking the Clay - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
7. "Saliva can only take so much" / Buffalo Voice - Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. "Someplace else right now" - Frank Zappa
2. Tired of Waiting - Nomeansno
3. Sorcerer's Stone Of The Magi - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
4. "A kayak (on snow)" / N-Lite - Frank Zappa
5. M1 - Derek Bailey
6. Time Wasted - West Port Murders

Interstellar Montage

Episode #45 aired October 21, 2009, featuring a live reading from Andrew Suknaski's Montage for an Interstellar Cry, accompanied in the first half by The Acid Mothers Temple's 30-minute Tales of Solar Sail, and in the second half by two tracks from Sun Ra's Purple Nights.

Part 1
1. The Tales of Solar Sail - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. -- Montage For An Interstellar Cry - Andrew Suknaski

Part 2
1. Tribal Convictions - Voivod
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Friendly Galaxy - Sun Ra -- Montage For An Interstellar Cry (continued)
4. Cosmic Drama - Voivod
5. Love In Outer Space - Sun Ra -- Montage For An Interstellar Cry (continued)
6. Waiting For You - DOA

Martian Acid

This sixteenth episode featured the audiobook version of H.G. Wells' sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds, especially a corrosive chapter in which the entire arsenal of human weaponry is dissolved in liquid mountains of green Martian acid. This text was played over & alongside music from The Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paradaiso U.F.O.'s Have You Seen The Other Side Of The Sky?, as well as Motocaster's Acid Rock & various artists released by Mint Records.

Part 1

1. Interplanetary Love - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
2. Fire in the Ocean - The Organ
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Interview - Nardwuar vs. Timothy Leary
5. The Train - Motocaster
6. Cold Hands/Chapped Lips - Hot Panda
7. Attack from Planet Hattifatteners - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
8. I'll Drive - Motocaster

Part 2

1. Camino Real - The Ramblin' Ambassadors
2. Oblivion - Motocaster
3. I Wanna Be Your Bicycle Saddle - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
4. Making Gestures - The Pack A.D.
5. Asimo's Naked Breakfast - Rice and Shrine - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
6. Anime Eyes - The Awkward Stage