Our Proclivities As Cosmo-biologico-social Necessities

No.162, March 14, 2010, in which Naval Aviation In Audio declares its solidarity with the Association Of Musical Marxists and reads their Manifesto on air with Iancu Dumitrescu’s Galaxy, and reads the first 14 theses from Guy Debord’s Society Of The Spectacle.

Part 1

1. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet
2. Free Love – Dog Eat Dog
3. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
4. Anarchavid – Lederhosen Lucil
5. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
6. New World Order – Dog Eat Dog
7. Galaxy – Iancu Dumitrescu
8. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Geneve – Raking Bombs
2. No Feelings – Cheerleader 666
3. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
4. Situation – Tangiers
5. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
6. Fairweather – Shikaska
7. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
8. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT

Fire & Chains

No.144, aired November 2, 2011. This was one of those episodes where the themes fell beautifully into place as the episode aired. I planned to play some of the hellish first disc of Zappa's Make A Jazz Noise Here, and the creation myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses (which was played from audiobook) happened to contain references to infernal destruction and hard iron - the rest followed in due course ...

Part 1

1. Suffer - Lungbutter
2. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
3. When Yuppies Go To Hell - Frank Zappa
4. Burried Shallow - Agonal
5. Fire And Chains - Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Big Bang Theory - Dog Eat Dogma
2. KONTAKTE 1 - Karlheinz Stockhausen
3. Heavy Metal Maniac - Exciter
4. KONTAKTE 1 (continuted) - Karlheinz Stockhausen
5. The Infernal - Agonal
6. BurntDeadBurnt - Lungbutter

Godspeed You CJTR!

No.141, aired October 5, 2011, Special Radiothon 2011 Episode

This episode saw NAIA moving more toward a free-form radio art format, particularly in the second half, where Godspeed! You Black Emperor’s Static formed a foundation onto which was added 3 guitar pieces by Regina’s Bob Evans, spoken word from Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits, BBC Sound Effects, and a live reading of the opening of the incredible Cape Hattaras sequence in Hart Crane’s The Bridge.

Part 1

1. Spinning Plates – Radiohead
2. Sally – Gogol Bordello
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Transcendental Medication – Dog Eat Dogma
5. Jelly 292 – Jimi Hendrix
6. Dance Of The Headless Bourgoisie - Nomeansno

Part 2

1. 001 Loser’s Club – D.O.A.
2. Static – Godspeed! You Black Emperor -- Dune / Khamenkule / Yesterday – Bob Evans
3. Midnight Show – The Horribles

Freedom Of Obsession

No.114, aired March 16, 2011. Second episode to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters.

Part 1

1. Freedom Of Obsession – Dog Eat Dogma
2. Beaten With Sledges – Buckethead
3. Tarabos – Soft Machine
4. The Man Who Never Was – Sheavy
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Freedom Of Obsession – Dog Eat Dogma (played 2nd time by mistake)
7. Snodland – Soft Machine
8. Penny Hitch – Soft Machine
9. Art Of The State – Dog Eat Dogma

Part 2

1. Imitation Of Christ – Sheavy
2. Nouvelle Axe – Ana Marie Avram / Hyperion Ensemble
3. Block – Soft Machine
4. Kaos Rex – Dog Eat Dogma

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

Half A Heart

No.86, aired September 1, 2010

This episode was cut short due to a family medical emergency. An interesting episode all the same, featuring segments from Chapter 2 of Heart Of Darkness with Xenakis & Arab-Canadian punks The Sarcastic Mannequins - a morbid serendipity was acheived as the Mannequins were heard yelling "Tandoori!" as Marlowe (the narrator of Heart Of Darkness) contemplated why his shipmates were not eating him.

Music heard between 11:25 and midnight were supplied by Phil, CJTR’s most flexible DJ.

Part 1

1. Rule No.1 – Sarcastic Mannequins
2. Things I Lack – Pillar
3. Kai – Iannis Xenakis
4. Teufelskind – Dog Eat Dogma
5. 4 Arabs In A Red Fury - Sarcastic Mannequins
6. Meganegativity - Dog Eat Dogma
7. Magic – Alien Sex Fiend

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

The Flowers of Evil

Episode 42 featured an on-air reading of Sean Bonney's Baudelaire in English (Veer Books, 2008), according to many the best ever English renderings of the French poet.

Part 1
1. The Black Forest - Buckethead -- O Carib Isle - Hart Crane (on-air reading by host)
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
4. Naked - Ballroom Zombies
5. Please Hang Up - Dog Eat Dogma
6. Hair Pie: Bake 1 - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band -- Baudelaire in English - Sean Bonney (on-air reading by host)
7. Necropolis - Dog Eat Dogma
8. M1 - Derek Bailey -- Baudelaire in English - Sean Bonney
9. Bills Corpse - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
10. Fountains of the Forgotten - Buckethead

Part 2
1. Sweet Sweet Bulbs - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
2. Fleuves (pt.1) - Gilles Tremblay -- Baudelaire in English - Sean Bonney
3. Impotent Fantasies - Ballroom Zombies
4. Fleuves (pt.2) - Gilles Tremblay -- Baudelaire in English - Sean Bonney
5. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

Spokes for the Wheel of Torment

Aired August 12, 2009, featuring a live reading of Chapter 1 of the Book of Ezekiel plus the Commuters AudioBible recording of Chapters 34, 35, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48 & 49 of The Book of Isaiah.

Part 1
1. Descent of the Damned - Buckethead
2. Circle, with Tangents Pt.2 - John Beckwith
3. She Danced for Gordie Howe - Tim Postgate
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Spokes for the Wheels of Torment - Buckethead
6. Circle, with Tangents Pt.4 - John Beckwith
7. Terminator - Tim Postgate
8. Parannoyed - Dog Eat Dogma
9. Arc of the Pendulum - Buckethead

Part 2
1. Circle, with Tangents Pt.3 - John Beckwith
2. Haven of Black Tar Pitch - Buckethead
3. The Apes of Wrath - GWAR
4. Circle, with Tangents Pt.1 - John Beckwith
5. Animal Farm - Dog Eat Dogma
6. Hoster City - Tim Postgate
7. The Escape Wheel - Buckethead
8. The Wheel - GWAR

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