Black Forest Myth

No.155, aired January 25, 2012. This episode began with the arrival of a double-CD live set of Sun Ra from the early 1970s – Black Myth / Out In Space – and from there it was only a matter of finding supporting material from Buckethead’s Cuckoo Clocks of Hell CD, Schoenberg’s psychodrama set in the woods, Erwartung, and a live reading from pages 76-79 of the densest forest in English Literature, Finnegans Wake.

Part 1

1. Erwartung, Scene I – Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Janis Martin (Soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra
2. No End In Sight – Contaminate
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. The Black Forest – Buckethead
5. Black Forest Myth – Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra
6. India Speaks Cryptically To The World – Swelter
7. Erwartung, Scene II – Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Janis Martin (Soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra
8. Numbskull – Contaminate
9. Friendly Galaxy No.2 - Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra
10. Swift Pulls A Fast One – Swelter

Part 2

1. Oblivion Trail - Swelter
2. Erwartung, Scene III – Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Janis Martin (Soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra
3. Deadly Sins – Contaminate
4. Strange Worlds / Black Myth / It’s After The End Of The World - Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra
5. Dismal Land – Swelter
6. Woods Of Suicide – Buckethead
7. Zone Of Compass Unreliability – Tristan Psionic

The Mystery Of The Reality And The Reality Of The Mystery Of Our Cosmic Existence

No.150, aired December 21, 2011 – the Winter Solstice special, featuring a playing of Regina poet Robert Betteridge’s Trilogy #2, from the great cerebral orb contesting the primitive coconut to the final invocation of the Sun’s Power in The Second Coming Scam, an incredible text to be played on the darkest day of 2011.

Part 1

1. Incantation – Voivod
2. Permeability – Hylozoists -- Prologue – Robert Betteridge
3. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.1 – Arnold Schoenberg
4. Helldriver – Voivod
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. There Ain’t No Santa Clause On The Evenin’ Stage - Captain Beefheart
7. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.2 – Arnold Schoenberg -- Trilogy #2 (a) Premoe Moe And Humoe - Robert Betteridge
8. Quo Vadis – King Cobb Steelie -- Trilogy #2 (a) (continued)

Part 2

1. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.3 – Arnold Schoenberg
2. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.4 – Arnold Schoenberg -- Trilogy #2 (b) All One – One All (SiFi) A Temporary Myth - Robert Betteridge
3. Voivod – Voivod
4. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.1 – Arnold Schoenberg – Trilogy #2 (c) The Second Coming Scam - Robert Betteridge
5. Reprise – Hylozoists -- Trilogy #2 (c) (continued)
6. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (version from Hendrix in the West)

1-2-SNFU!!

No.131, aired July 27, 2011. This was a primer episode for the SNFU concert that was supposed to have taken place Saturday Night – see August 3 for details. Spoken word component was from Steven R. Covey’s 7 Habits.

Part 1

1. Broken Toy - SNFU
2. Valse De Chopin – Arnold Schoenberg
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. She’s Not On The Menu – SNFU
5. The Alphabet Poised Like 26 Frozen Ducklings – Hession / Wilkinson / Fell
6. You Can’t Take It With You – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
7. I’m Real Scared – SNFU
8. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere – Hession / Wilkinson / Fell
9. Money Matters – SNFU
10. Circle With Tangets I – John Beckwith

Part 2

1. Too Tired – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
2. Ochre Ringlet – Eugene Chadbourne
3. Get Off Your Ass – SNFU
4. The Walking Dead – Eugene Chadbourne
5. Loser At Life/Loser At Death – SNFU
6. Madonna – Arnold Schoenberg
7. Bodies In The Wall – SNFU
8. Circle With Tangets II – John Beckwith
9. This Is The End – SNFU
10. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Round Things Are Boring

No.119, aired April 20, 2011, featuring the entirety of the Lumpy Gravy album, composed by Frank Zappa & performed by Zappa & the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra in 1967.

Part 1

1. Prayor to Pierrot (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
2. Ella Guru – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Lumpy Gravy, Part 1 – Frank Zappa
5. I Can Tell – Ugly Ducklings
6. Loot (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
7. She Danced For Gordie Howe – Tim Postgate
8. Black Summer – Youthinasia

Part 2

1. Dali’s Car – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. Lumpy Gravy, Part 2 – Frank Zappa
3. My Human Gets Me Blues – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
4. Terminator – Tim Postgate
5. Midnight Show – The Horribles
6. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

All's Mad Majesty And Squander

No.117, aired April 6, 2011, featuring live readings of Canadian poet Ralph Gustafson.

Part 1

Intro. The Philosophy Of The Parthenon – Ralph Gustafson
1. Heroic Doses – Glueleg
2. Haught – Derek Bailey -- At The Ocean’s Verge – Ralph Gustafson
3. Cough Syrup – Butthole Surfers
4. Nacht (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
5. Beautiful Sun – Little Miss Higgins
6. Kuilenn – Iannis Xenakis -- On This Sea-Floor / “S.S.R., Lost At Sea.” – The Times / Basque Lover: Spain 1937 – Ralph Gustafson
7. Magic Word – Fucked Up

Part 2

1. Polio – Glueleg
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Waiting – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Open Doors – Odyssey: the Band -- Flight Into Darkness / Legend – Ralph Gustafson
5. Days Of Last Light – Fucked Up –- Prolegomenon At Midnight – Ralph Gustafson
6. Wash These Blues Away – Little Miss Higgins
7. Last One - Odyssey: the Band -- Aspects Of Some Forsythia Branches – Ralph Gustafson
8. Midnight Show – The Horribles

A Trip To The Moon

No.89, aired September 22, 2010, with readings from Cantos II & III from Dante’s Paradiso, where he visited the Moon and talked to the Spirits that live there.

Part 1

1. Moondrunk (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
2. Moonshine (Friend Of Mine) – Five Man Electrical Band
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Moonlight On Vermont – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Colombine (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
6. Moonlight Instrumental – David Vanervelde
7. Beyond The Moon – Max Webster
8. The Dandy (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
9. Distracted By The Moon – Blah Blah 666

Part 2

1. Light Reflected Off The Oceans Of The Moon – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. A Chlorotic Laundery Maid (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
3. Ghoul Next Door – Forbidden Dimension
4. Duke Of Prunes / Amnesia Vivace / The Duke Regains His Chops – The Mothers Of Invention
5. Wolves And Werewolves – The Pack A.D.
6. Valse de Chopin (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
7. Werewolf - Five Man Electrical Band
8. Blah Overture – Blah Blah 666
9. Annabel – Forbidden Dimension

1937. Animal Gravepools

No. 55, aired December 30, 2009.

This was the final of the 4-part "20th Century Zeitgeist" series. Although the 20th Century Zeitgeist concept will continue in some form, examining moments of rupture & transformation in 20th Century culture, this was the final of the four episodes featuring the string quartets of Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg's final quartet was composed around 1937, so the episode also featured some swinging jazz from around that year by Count Basie & poetry published 1936-1938 by Dylan Thomas.

In celebration of the dark limbo between solstice & the new year, the theme of Part 1 was the grave, whereas Part 2 was all about wildness - so I guess combined they describe an animal coming out of hibernation - not quite spring yet, but wtf?

Part 1

1. Dark Rapture - Count Basie
2. The Gravedigger - SNFU
3. Mammal Beats - Les Georges Leningrad
4. Graveyard - Butthold Surfers
5. String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (Movement 1) - Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet -- Altarwise By Owl-light (I & X) / Twenty-four Years - Dylan Thomas
6. Soup Stain Graves - Rehashed
7. HAY - Butthole Surfers
8. Topsy - Count Basie
9. Bodies In The Wall - SNFU

Part 2

1. Eli Eli Lamma sabacthani - Les Georges Leningrad
2. Wild Life - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3. String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (Movement 1) - Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet -- How Shall My Animal / On No Work of Words - Dylan Thomas
4. Loser At Life/Loser At Death - SNFU
5. Naval Aviation In Audio - Frank Zappa
6. The O-Men - Butthole Surfers
7. I Wanna Be Your Dog - Stooges
8. Doggin' Around - Count Basie
9. Eli Eli Lamma sabacthani - Les Georges Leningrad

1927! Upon These Boiling Seas

Episode 53 aired December 16, 2009. This is part 3 of the 4 part "20th Century Zeitgeist" series featuring the string quartets of Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg's 3rd String Quartet was composed in 1927 - & by a stroke of luck I happened to select some Louis Armstrong recordings that date from the same year, & by a second stroke of luck chose an accompanying poetic text, from Hart Crane's The Bridge, that was published in 1927!

While it was tempting to name the episode "Monsters & Robots" after the title of Buckethead's CD and Guerrilla Funk Monster's robot references, the concept of boiling is a better description of the hot, popping funk of much of the music.

Part 1

1. Jump Man - Buckethead -- The Harbour Dawn (from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
2. Kaos Rex - Dog Eat Dogma
3. Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong
4. Fear On The Bridge (Upon The Boiling Sea I) - 3 Inches of Blood
5. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30, 1. Moderato - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / New Vienna String Orchestra -- Ave Maria (from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
6. Lord Of The Storm (Upon The Boiling Sea II) - 3 Inches of Blood
7. robot love serenade - Guerrilla Funk Monster

Part 2

1. Stick Pit - Buckethead -- The River (from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Ron Donson - Guerrilla Funk Monster
4. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30, 3. Intermezzo (Allegro Moderato) - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / New Vienna String Orchestra -- The River (cont'd, from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
5. Isle of Eternal Despair - (Upon The Boiling Sea II) - 3 Inches of Blood
6. burgundy - Guerrilla Funk Monster -- The River (cont'd, from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
7. Revenge of the Double Man - Buckethead -- The River (cont'd, from The Bridge) - Hart Crane
8. Alligator Crawl - Louis Armstrong

DADA

Episode #52 continues where #50 left off in the 20th Century Zeitgeist, this time featuring Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, composed in 1909, along with Tristan Tzara's 1918 DADA Manifesto, Mamie Smith's That DA DA Strain, and a handful of contemporary artists that exemplify dadaesqe tendencies in their own way.

Part 1

1. Little Pink Gibson - Evil Dick
2. That DA DA Strain - Mamie Smith
3. Bogg-Marsh Boogie - Evil Dick
4. No More Trading Clothes - Lungbutter
5. Ooo ... OMG - Lederhosen Lucil
6. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (1. MaBig) - Arnold Schoenberg (comp.) / New Vienna String Quartet
7. Free Kill Pass - Lungbutter
8. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
9. What Is It Now? - Evil Dick

Part 2
1. It's Only Life! - Blah Blah 666
2. I Think His Name is Something (I Don't Know) - Lungbutter
3. Council Wife - Evil Dick
4. Doin' the Ganglion - Lederhosen Lucil
5. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (2. Sehr rasch) - Arnold Schoenberg (comp.) / New Vienna String Quartet
6. PCB Polka - Lungbutter
7. Klismaphilia Funk - Evil Dick
8. The Darktown Flappers' Ball - Mamie Smith

20th Century Zeitgeist 1

Episode 50 begins a new series in which Naval Aviation in Audio will zoom back to key moments in 20th Century music & poetry - moments of change, moments of rupture. This first installment examined the period around 1905, featuring the first of four String Quartets of Arnold Schoenberg, the leading modernist composer for the first half of the century, and Ezra Pound, the lightning rod for the English language avant-garde during that period. And because NAIA is never about sticking to one place or style or period, always restlessly shifting, I also read poems by Anne Szumigalski, the Zeitgeist of Saskchewan & prairie poetry from at least the early 1970s thru to the late 1990s, as well as a selection of more contemporary music.

Part 1

1. Skulls in the Closet - Les Georges Leningrad
2. Revelation March - James Blood Ulmer -- Our Sullen Art - Anne Szumigalski
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Chaosmongers - Voivod
5. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (movement 1 - Nicht zu rasch) - Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet -- Sestina: Alt Aforte; The Seafarer (From the Anglo-Sazon) - Ezra Pound
6. Intro A - John Spencer Blues Explosion

Part 2

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit - The Bad Plus -- Skeps in the Orchard - Anne Szumigalski
2. Experiment - Voidvod
3. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (movement 2 - MaBig (Heiter)) - Arnold Schoenberg -- Want of [thorn] Want of [Edh]; The Musicologist - Anne Szumigalski
4. Sleek Answer - Les Georges Leningrad
5. Morning Bride - James Blood Ulmer

Evil

Aired August 26, 2009, featuring Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung, a monodrama (in German) about a woman wandering in a forest at night searching for her lover. To this nightmarish setting was added Howlin' Wolf (for a fairy-tale aspect), as well as several monstrous heavy metal anthems by The Muscle Bitches, Monster Magnet, and Anvil. Three different versions of the Willie Dixon-penned blues classic Evil were heard, as performed by Howlin Wolf, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, and Monster Magnet.

Part 1
1. Sonata Tragica - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 2 - Howlin Wolf
2. I'm the Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
3. Erwartung, Sc.III - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. Cyclops Revolution - Monster Magnet
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Evil - Howlin' Wolf
7. Mothra - Anvil
8. Erwartung, Sc.I - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
9. Peek Through the Pines - Muscle Bitches -- The Wolf Talks 3 - Howlin' Wolf

Part 2
1. Dogs - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 1 - Howlin' Wolf
2. Evil - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
3. Erwartung, Sc.II - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. 666 - Anvil
5. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.1 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
6. Balls To the Wall - Muscle Bithches (originally performed by Accept)
7. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.3 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
8. Evil - Monster Magnet
9. Cielito Lindo - Blah Blah 666
10. Wolf At Your Door - Howlin' Wolf

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