New York Eye & Ear Control

No.159, aired February 21, 2012. Featured a live reading of New York poet Louis Zukofsky’s “A-22” with music from New York Eye And Ear Control, a jazz exploration by Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sunny Murray recorded July 17, 1964. Also known as the "All A's" episode.

How can you
opinion’s throbbing ear aimless eye
serve ghosts
- from “A-22”

Part 1

1. Don’s Dawn – Albert Ayler et al.
2. Party Dog – Actionaughts
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. AY – Albert Ayler et al.
5. Show Me – American Flamewhip

Part 2

1. St Hubert – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
2. ITT – Albert Ayler et al.

... 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

Drums & Spears & Terrors

No.143, aired October 26, 2011. This was the next installment of the Cosmo-Orgazmik Ascension series, featuring this time the first half of Iannis Xenakis's Kraanerg. In honour of Halloween, spoken word was from the Bachanal episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and three tracks by Calgary's scariest band Forbidden Dimension were played.

Part 1

1. Kraanerg - Iannis Xenakis
2. Bloodshack - Forbidden Dimension
3. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
5. Fourteen Faces - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
6. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
7. Creatures Of Habit - Contaminate
8. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
9. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
10. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis

Part 2

1. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
2. My Two Lovin' Hands - Forbidden Dimension
3. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
4. Hell Is Other People - Contaminate
5. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
6. Rolling Home - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
7. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis
8. Big Black Hearse - Forbidden Dimension
9. Kraanerg (continued) - Iannis Xenakis

The Horror Of The Same Old Thing Or Fresh Excesses Of Lasciviousness

No.133, aired August 10, 2011, featuring further passages from The Focus On The Family presentation of The Screwtape Letters. This will be a candidate for “Best Episode Ever.”

Some of the serendipitous highlights included Augury’s Faith Puppeteers being introduced with the words “I don’t think we have to worry about pagens anymore” and D.O.A.’s Unchained Meldody, from The Nutwrencher Suite, introduced with “by suppressing one side of Jesus’ teaching and emphasizing another.”

Part 1

1. Bogg-Marsh Boogie – Evil Dick
2. Faith Puppeteers – Augury
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. The Nutwrencher Suite: Bound For Glory – D.O.A.
5. Little Pink Gibson – Evil Dick
6. The Nutwrencher Suite: Unchained Melody – D.O.A.
7. Klismaphilia Funk – Evil Dick
8. The Nutwrencher Suite: Cut Time – D.O.A.
9. They Can Make It Rain Bombs – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
10. Demons Out! – Art Brut

Part 2

1. What Is It Now? – Evil Dick
2. Blindman – D.O.A.
3. "Mode D – Trio and Group Dancers" ("Stop! Look! And Sing Songs of Revolutions!") / "Mode E – Single Solos and Group Dance" ("Saint and Sinner Join in Merriment on Battle Front") / "Mode F – Group and Solo Dance" "Stop! Look! And Sing Songs of Revolutions!" ("Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt, then Farewell, My Beloved, 'til It's Freedom Day") – Charles Mingus
4. Sovereign Unknown – Augury
5. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension

Hank Markus

No.113, aired March 9, 2011.

I am transient. I will die.
Before I die, I will change history.
I will give rise to a superior religion,
One that will assure human success.
No one can stop me.
Phenomena are no hindrance.
Conditions are no hindrance.
History is no hindrance.
Everything conspires to help me.

- Hank Markus

Hendrik (Hank) Markus, Regina poet & Buddhist scholar, passed away on November 20 2010 & this episode is a tribute to his memory, featuring live readings from his book Phenomena No Hindrance.

Part 1

1. Haiku III – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (solo harp)
2. Life Is Long – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Meeting Of The Spirits – Mahavishnu Orchestra -- The Messianic Heart / This Mountainous Reality / Mountain Poem / Three Meditations – Hank Markus
5. Breathless – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
6. Birds At The Mountain Temple - Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (solo harp) -- The Myth Of Fan / The Foreman’s Monologue – Hank Markus
7. 10,000 Years - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
8. A Lotus On Irish Streams - Mahavishnu Orchestra -- poems from pgs.87-92 of Phenomena No Hindrance – Hank Markus

Part 2

1. Supernaturally – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. Sleep – Godspeed! You Black Emperor – Invitation / The Poetic Verge / Midnight Hours / The Word Of The World? / Among The Gems / On Earth And In Heaven / Open The Gates / In Space / Reality Writ Small / That Flare Of Demon Tongue / No Longer Moved / Under The Eternal Sun – Hank Markus
3. Comas – Pink Mountaintops

Deserts: East v. West

No.105, aired January 12, 2011, featuring further passages from the book of Ezekiel (chapter nos. indicated). Alternate title: Clint Eastwood v. Yahweh.

Part 1

1. Hang ‘Em High – Booker T. & The MGs (Ch.37)
2. Shoot You In The Back – Motorhead
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Don’t We All – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. In Memoriam Alberto Guerro – Murray Schafer (Ch.27)
6. East Infection – Gogol Bordello
7. Parisian Eyes – Hylozoists (Ch.28)
8. West Coast Flyer – Brian Sklar & Prairie Fire

Part 2

1. Mala Vida – Gogol Bordello
2. East – Murray Schafer (Ch.26,29)
3. Fire, Fire – Motorhead
4. The Crippled Giant – Hylozoists (Ch.29,30)
5. Strange Uncles From Abroad – Gogol Bordello
6. Metamorfosi (La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso) – John Zorn (Ch.31)
7. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

Radiothon Spectacular

No.91, aired October 6, 2010. With words from Dr. Wayne Dyer’s audiobook Peace For All Of Us, which provided a few moments of nightmarish serendipty, particularly as Dr. Dyer discussed war-time xenophobia to the tune of Les Georges Leningrad’s horror-shrieks in Ennio Morricone.

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Part 1

1. Dang – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2. That Ol’ G Minor Thing Again – Frank Zappa
3. Skulls In The Closet – Les Georges Leningrad
4. Here’s To The Punks – Ripcordz
5. Great Day – Storm Inc.
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Captain Fortune – Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
8. Stop And Listen – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Part 2

1. Man-Size Sextet – PJ Harvey
2. No More Headcheese – Hanson Brothers
3. Dun Pressed On – Evil Dick
4. 50 FT Queenie – PJ Harvey
5. Ditch - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
6. Ennio Morricone - Les Georges Leningrad
7. Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus – Frank Zappa
8. Hardcore Jollies – Funkadelic
9. Sailing – Ripcordz

Babylonion Nod Scene

No.88, aired September 15, 2010, featuring Chapters 17 – 21 of the book of Ezekiel from the Commuter’s Audio Bible.

Part 1

1. Pill Shovel – Monster Magnet
2. A Vaquero’s Dream – Freddie Pelletier
3. Feel Good Hit Of The Summer – Queens Of The Stone Age
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. One Sin – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
6. Our Prayor – Albert Ayler
7. Medicine – Monster Magnet
8. Change Has Come – Albert Ayler

Part 2

1. The Slippery Slope – Bob Evans
2. Nod Scene – Monster Magnet
3. Truth Is Marching In – Albert Ayler
4. Neighbourhood Butcher – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Sailing - Ripcordz

Infected Mushroom

Three or four weeks ago I was having lunch in Wascana Park and found in the bushes several CDs covered in mud & moisture & mould & did what any good DJ would do, salvaging everything that held some promise. The result was the addition of the following five titles to my playlist:

The Trinity – Sean Paul
Fist of God – MSTRKRFT
Collected – Massive Attack
Hellbilly Deluxe – Rob Zombie
Vicous Delicious – Infected Mushroom

So Episode no.78 was a bit of a departure for Naval Aviation In Audio, featuring tracks from all five of these dance-pop albums.

This episode also featured the opening Chapter of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness on Audiobook.

Part 1

1. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT
2. Motherless Child – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. The Trinity – Sean Paul
4. Perversion 99 – Rob Zombie
5. Vicious Delicious – Infected Mushroom
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Superbeast – Rob Zombie
8. Vuvuvu – MSTRKRFT

Part 2

1. Click Click - MSTRKFRT
2. Angel – Massive Attack
3. Mechanical Man – CPC Gangbangs
4. St. Hubert - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Heavyweight - Infected Mushroom

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

Never Be Dead

Episode 22, aired April 17, 2009. Featured several poems by Milton Acorn read with Papineau-Couture's String Quartet.

Part 1

1. Charge - Asian Dub Foundation
2. Humanoid Boogie - Bonzo Dog Band
3. String Quartet, 2nd movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
4. C.C. And O. Blues - Pink Anderson
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Free Satpal Ram - Asian Dub Foundation
7. String Quartet, 1st movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
8. You Got it Wrong - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
9. Dub Mentality - Asian Dub Foundation

Part 2
1. If You Don't Give Me What I Want - Blind Boy Fuller & Floyd Council
2. String Quartet, 4th movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
3. Never Be Dead - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. Culture Move - Asian Dub Foundation
5. Take My Hand - Jennifer Gentle
6. String Quartet, 3rd movement - Jean Papineau-Couture
7. Who Are the Brain Police? - The Mothers of Invention
8. Dumb It Down - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
9. Charge - Asian Dub Foundation

This Cleaving & this Burning ...

Episode 14 aired February 18, 2009, and featured the poetry of Hart Crane read live in the CJTR studio with Arnold Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16 (1949 Revision), as well as tracks from John Coltrane's Love Supreme, The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines, gypsy punks Gogol Bordello, and The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir.

Part 1

1. Sweet Tooth - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Acknowledgment - John Coltrane
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Life is Long - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Summer Morning by a Lake - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra -- Legend - Hart Crane, Repose of Rivers - Hart Crane
6. Burnin' Inside - King Khan & the Shrines
7. Peripetia - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra
8. Taking it Out - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Part 2

1. Torture - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Resolution - John Coltrane
3. Illumination - Gogol Bordello
4. The Obligatory Recitative - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra -- Possessions - Hart Crane
5. Outta Harm's Way - King Khan & the Shrines
6. Premonitions - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra
7. Mishto! - Gogol Bordello

Pathways to Unknown Worlds

Playlist for the first ever episode (aired November 12, 2008)

Part 1:
1. (Intro) Canadian Customs - Frank Zappa
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa (theme music)
3. The Boig – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. 1st movement, String Trio Op. 20 – Anton Webern (played by Juilliard String Quartet) -- Woman Reading in Bath – Anne Szumigalski
5. The Prisoner – DOA
6. Sea Horses & Flying Fish - Hugo Ball (read by Christian Bok)
7. Extension Out – Sun Ra -- Names of God - Tim Lilburn
8. Unknown – DOA
9. Pome Poem - bpNichol
10. Cosmo-media - Sun Ra

Part 2:
1. Duck Duck Goose – Frank Zappa
2. Pathways to Unknown Worlds – Sun Ra
3. Go Back Home – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. 001 Losers Club – DOA
5. 2nd movement, String Trio Op. 20 – Anton Webern (played by Juilliard String Quartet) -- Victim – Anne Szumigalski
6. Waiting for You – DOA
Outro - Canadian Customs - Frank Zappa