Wormwood Goes To Hell

No.140, aired September 28, 2011, the finale of C.S.Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters (as dramatized by Focus On The Family), where Wormwood’s fuck-ups become too much and Screwtape admonishes him in a stunning 12 minute soliloquey before final condemnation.

Part 1

1. Beyond Hell Intro – GWAR
2. Sonata Tragica – Blah Blah 666
3. Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – The Stooges
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Moths To Flame – Buckethead
6. Murderer`s Muse – GWAR
7. It`s Only Life – Blah Blah 666
8. Tormentor – GWAR
9. Hymno Nacional Mexicano – Blah Blah 666

Part 2

1. Descent Of The Damned – Buckethead
2. Fuck Satan To Death – Dayglo Abortions
3. Blossom Blah – Blah 666
4. 666 – Anvil
5. Hylozoists – Hylozoists
6. Go To Hell! – GWAR
7. Sailing – Ripcordz

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

Visions Of A(Nightare)ica

No.85, aired August 25, 2010. Featuring on-air readings of the poetry of Winnipeg’s Werner “Van” Harder.

Part 1

1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy – The Mothers Of Invention
2. My American Partner – King Cobb Steelie -- The Unwelcome Critic – Werner “Van” Harder
3. Wake Up America – Dayglo Abortions
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. America The Beautiful – D.O.A.
6. Hatian Fight Song – Charles Mingus -- I Am Dick Dick / Afghanistan; Iraq; Iran (?): Some (Viet)Nambulism (we’ve sleepwalked through this nightmare before) - Werner “Van” Harder
7. Everything I Touch – American Flamewhip

Part 2

1. American Society – L7
2. Sad Statue – System Of A Down
3. It Can’t Happen Here – The Mothers Of Invention
4. Ronald McRaygun – Dayglo Abortions
5. Americanized – GWAR
6. Once Upon A Time There Was A Holding Corporation Called Old America – Charles Mingus -- Jumping Jingoism: Flag-nostic / Calamity Gain - Werner “Van” Harder
7. American Dream – Cat Rapes Dog

1967! Drums Of Passion

No.84, aired August 18, 2010, featuring avant-garde, jazz & rock music from 1967, plus the 22-minute Drums Of Passion by Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson, an incredible exploration of the percussive capabilities of the electric guitar & baritone sax. Also continued with Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Rimb Nugget – Ugly Ducklings
2. 1967 – Dayglo Abortions
3. Song 1 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
4. Eyes – The Collectors
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Leo – John Coltrane
7. Nothin’ – Ugly Ducklings
8. Song 2 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
9. Song 3 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
10. Song 4 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen

Part 2

1. Abba Zaba – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. Drums Of Passion - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
3. Listen To Me – One Way Street

Strange Celestial Roads ... or Nationalist Fervor?

Episode no.77 celebrated the height of summer by playing all three tracks from Sun Ra’s 1979 jazz-rock exploration Strange Celestial Roads. To add a parallel strange journey, Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness was played along with Sun Ra, sometimes in the foreground, as if Conrad was on stage with the band, and sometimes receding to the backround, as if you were in a jazz club and were hearing Conrad telling his dark tale at the next table.

And to acknowledge July 1 (which began at the end of the program), we heard some national-themed Canadian punk rock.

For more information on W.B. Yonder (a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson)’s Oh Canada or for free downloads, visit: http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html

Part 1

1. Oh Canada – W.B. Yonder
2. Oh Canaduh – Cub (originally by The Subhumans)
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. We Hate The Bloody Queen – Mudhoney (originally by the Queen Haters)
5. Celestial Road – Sun Ra
6. Proud To Be A Canadian – Dayglo Abortions
7. Say – Sun Ra

Part 2

1. Maple Leaf Rag – Saxology (Scott Joplin)
2. Truck Stop Nun – Von Zippers (originally by Da Shyme)
3. I Am Canadian – D.O.A.
4. I’ll Wait For You – Sun Ra
5. Oh Canaduh – The Subhumans

Monster Spawned

This is the second episode to feature the visionary poetry of Regina's Robert Betteridge. #36, aired August 19, 2009.

Part 1
1. Medicine Men - Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey -- Mary Shepherd Letter - Robert Betteridge
2. Ultimate - Gogol Bordello
3. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 1 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
4. Stranger Than Kindness - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Used To Be In Love - Dayglo Abortions
7. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 2 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano) -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max - Robert Betteridge
8. Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney! - Charles Mingus -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max (continued)
9. Haram in Tuscany [Taranta] - Gogol Bordello

Part 2
1. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 3 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
2. Religious Bumfucks - Dayglo Abortions
3. Playroom - Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey -- YET - Robert Betteridge
4. Supertheory of Supereverything - Gogol Bordello
5. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 4 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano) -- Monster Spawned - Robert Betteridge
6. (Soul Fusion) Freewomen and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries - Charles Mingus
7. San Bernardo (1913) - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
8. I'm My Own God - Dayglo Abortions

Canadadaday

July 1, 2009 Canada Day episode, featuring live readings of E.J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike, F.R. Scott's The Canadian Social Register and Scott's brief retort to Pratt, All the Spikes But the Last. Readings were accompanied by orchestral works by various Canadian composers.

Part 1
1. Oh Canaduh - Subhumans
2. Canadian Customs - Frank Zappa
3. Divertissement for String Quartet - Pierre Mercure
4. The Only Junior Fiction - Godfried & Soy
5. Inquisition Day - Subhumans
6. Carnival Overture for Orchestra - Oskar Morawetz
7. Surfin' Canada - Lungbutter
8. Look at the Dawn - Subhumans

Part 2
1. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
2. Ronald McRaygun - Dayglo Abortions
3. Concerto For Piano & Orchestra: Allegro - Michael Conway Baker
4. Staggering Into the Night - Swelter
5. So Fine - The Real Slow Drag
6. Canadian Mosaic, Suite for Orchestra: The Contented House - Jean Coulthard
7. Elan for Orchestra - Linda Bouchard
8. Proud To Be a Canadian - Dayglo Abortions
9. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine

The Golfer's Rite of Spring

Aired March 25, 2009. This episode celebrated the Vernal Equinox by recasting Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. In place of the virgin dancing herself to death was sportswriter & virgin caddy Rick Reilly's death-dance for the primadonnas of pro golf - Reilly's audiobook Who's Your Caddy was played with Stravinsky's violent modern ballet. And just to keep things interesting, tracks from two Victoria, BC punk bands, The Dayglo Abortions & Nomeansno, were played between movements.

Part 1

1. Young Girl's Dances - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Wake Up - Nomeansno
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Wake Up America - Dayglo Abortions
5. Mock Abductions - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Stupid Songs - Dayglo Abortions
7. Round Dances - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Ashes - Nomeansno
9. Games of Rival Tribes - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Inside My Head - Dayglo Abortions
11. Wise Elder's Procession - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
12. Stupid World - Dayglo Abortions
13. Dance of the Earth - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2
1. Mystic Circles - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. I See a Mansion in the Sky - Nomeansno
3. Glorification - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Mr. in Between - Nomeansno
5. Ancients' Ritual - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Bedtime Story - Dayglo Abortions
7. Sacrificial Dance - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. 'Till I Die - Nomeansno