Exodus

Episode no.76, aired June 9, 2010.

Featured most of the first 13 Chapters of the book of Exodus from the Commuters’ Audio Bible (chapters played noted below), plus several tracks from Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1977 Exodus album and all four tracks from D.O.A.’s 1985 E.P. Don’t Turn Yer Back On Desperate Times.

Part 1

1. Prelude – Judas Priest -- Ch.1
2. Round & Round I – John Beckwith
3. Natural Mystic – Bob Marley & The Wailers
4. Man Who Almost Was – Hylozoists -- Ch.2
5. Tyrant – Judas Priest
6. The Call Of Ktulu – Metallica -- Ch.3,4
7. Round & Round II – John Beckwith -- Ch.4 (con't)
8. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
9. Burn It Down – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. For Starters – John Beckwith -- Ch.5
2. The Heathen – Bob Marley & The Wailers
3. Lovers Become Lovers – Hylozoists -- Ch.7
4. A Season In Hell – D.O.A.
5. Green Dolphin Street – Eric Dolphy -- Ch.8
6. Underdog World Strike – Gogol Bordello

Part 3

1. Round & Round III – John Beckwith -- Ch.9
2. Round & Round IV – John Beckwith -- Ch.9 (con't)
3. Race Riot – D.O.A.
4. Guiltiness – Bob Marley & The Wailers
5. Glad To Be Unhappy – Eric Dolphy -- Ch.10
6. Round & Round V – John Beckwith -- Ch.11
7. Creeping Death – Metallica

Part 4

1. General Strike – D.O.A.
2. Round & Round VI – John Beckwith -- Ch.12
3. la fin du monde – Hylozoists -- Ch.12 (con't)
4. Exodus – Bob Marley & The Wailers
5. 245 – Eric Dolphy -- Ch.13
6. One Love / People Get Ready – Bob Marley & The Wailers

Sharks & Beaches

No. 64, aired March 3, 2010, the fourth episode to feature the audiobook presentation of Moby Dick (chapter numbers listed below, see also episode nos. 58, 59, 62)

Xenakis’s Rebonds B was played in full in Part 1 but was also used at various points as percussive backing to the text & other music.

Part 1

1. A Dark Chapter – Disembarkation
2. Hawaii – Huevos Rancheros
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Theme From Masterburner – Monster Magnet -- Ch.63 (The Crotch)
5. Mindless Aggression – Maow
6. Day’s Eye – Soft Machine -- Ch. 62 (Stubb Kills A Whale)
7. Rebonds B Pour “set” de percussions – Iannis Xenakis (composer) / Pedro Carneiro (percussion) -- Ch. 62 (cont’d)
8. D.I.S. – Soft Machine -- Ch. 62 (con’t)
9. Are U Ready – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Lemme Take You To The Beach – Frank Zappa
2. Beach Blanket Blackout - Huevos Rancheros -- Ch. 64 (Stubb’s Supper)
3. Into The Vortex – Helios Creed -- Ch. 64 (con’t)
4. King Of The Monsters - Man Or Astroman? -- Ch. 64 (con’t)
5. Friendly Love I – Sun Ra -- Ch. 64 (con’t)
6. Illumination – Gogol Bordello (dedicated to Aleks)
7. Sailing - Ripcordz

King Dream Fisher

Episode 31 featured the words of Regina poet, artist & one-time gallery curator Robert Betteridge. Recordings of Betteridge's readings were played with music by Charles Mingus, Derek Bailey, and Eugene Chadbourne.

Part 1
1. M5 - Derek Bailey -- King Dream Fisher - Robert Betteridge
2. Strawberry - Butthole Surfers
3. Meine Augen - Lederhosen Lucil
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Sigh About This - Lederhosen Lucil
6. Rothko Lumberjack - Eugene Chadbourne -- The Be's B-B-B-Bs - Robert Betteridge
7. M6 - Derek Bailey -- The Be's ... (continued)
8. Donnybrook - DOA

Part 2
1. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 6) - Erica Goodman
2. Dancing Fool - Butthole Surfers
3. Meditation on Inner Peace - Charles Mingus -- Dommmmmme Dome; A Betteridge in {Swim Spring / Spring Swim / Swim Spring}; Aquerie'n Aquarian Gypsy - Robert Betteridge
4. E.D.G.A.R. - Butthole Surfers
5. La Vocabulaire - Lederhosen Lucil
6. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

Buying In

Episode 27 explored the relation between what it is and what it buys, with help from Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, an audiobook written by Rob Walker and performed by Robert Fass. All music played was purchased by myself at the annual CJTR garage sale. Naval Aviation in Audio strives to create tension & conflict with audio material, not unity & identity. It therefore refuses the marketing drive to create identity through purchase. As Samual Beckett wrote, "The danger is in the neatness of idenfications." Notes towards a manifesto.

The greatest "finds" at the sale were two CDs by Dog Eat Dogma, the earlier of which, Dogmachine, represented with 4 tracks in this episode, was given to me as a casette tape by the band's lead singer after their set opening for DOA in 1998, in gratitude for the energy I exhibited in front of the stage, because they seriously rocked. And by a lovely coincidence this show also aired the night before DOA played the Distrikt in Regina once again - which is why the hour ended with 3 DOA classics.

Aired June 10, 2009.

Part 1
1. Courage of the Morning - Bob Evans
2. Bad Seed - Dog Eat Dogma
3. Madison 22 - C. R. Avery
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
6. Placenta Soup - LungButter
7. Transcendental Medication - Dog Eat Dogma
8. The Loose - Jon Ballantyne

Part 2
1. Wholisticism - Barry Whitmore
2. No Such Thing As the Future - Immaculate Machine
3. Bill Hicks - C. R. Avery
4. Political Prisoner - Dog Eat Dogma
5. East Van Business Plan - C. R. Avery
6. Mon Dieu - Dog Eat Dogma
7. Search - Jon Ballantyne
8. Liar For Hire - DOA
9. America the Beautiful - DOA
10. Waiting For You - DOA

Art of War

Aired February 25, 2009. Featured chapters from The Art of War (on audiobook) by Sun Tzu, played with King Cobb Steelie and the Leeds-based improvizing trio of Hession/Wilkinson/Fell.

Part 1

1. My American Partner - King Cobb Steelie
2. War - DOA
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. 12 Minutes for George - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
5. International Master - King Cobb Steelie
6. Horror of Yig - GWAR

Part 2

1. Vlad the Impaler - GWAR
2. The Alphabet Poised Like Twenty-six Frozen Ducklings - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
3. Sound Baffle - King Cobb Steelie
4. World War 3 - DOA
5. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
6. Deadbeat - King Cobb Steelie
7. Maggots - GWAR
8. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

Guitars & Birds & Freedom

Episode 9 explored the nature of freedom by reading the bird poems (sprung-rhythm Petrarchan sonnets) of 19th Century Jesuit monk Gerard Manley Hopkins with some ground-breaking solo improvizations from the late British guitarist Derek Bailey. Added to the mix were some Zappa, Hendrix, and several tracks from DOA's 2008 release Northern Avenger, named after Joe Keithley's guitar.

AS a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage
Man’s mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells—
That bird beyond the remembering his free fells;
This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life’s age.

Though aloft on turf or perch or poor low stage,
Both sing sometímes the sweetest, sweetest spells,
Yet both droop deadly sómetimes in their cells
Or wring their barriers in bursts of fear or rage.

(Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1877)

Part 1

1. This Machine Kills Fascists – DOA
2. intro -- M1 – Derek Bailey
3. Human Bomb – DOA
4. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Theme from Captain Black – James Blood Ulmer
6. M2 – Derek Bailey -- As Kingfishers Catch Fire – Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. Revealing – James Blood Ulmer
8. Set Them Free – DOA
9. M6 – Derek Bailey -- The Sea and the Skylark – Hopkins
10. Golden State – DOA

Part 2

1. But Who Was Fulcanelli? – Frank Zappa
2. Flux Capacitor - The Surfadelics
3. M5 – Derek Bailey -- The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins
4. Woodstock Improvization – Jimi Hendrix
5. Last Chance – DOA
6. M7 – Derek Bailey -- The Caged Skylark - Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. California Hardcore Last Chance - DOA
8. M8 – Derek Bailey
9. Villanova Junction – Jimi Hendrix
10. For Duane – Frank Zappa -- outro

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