Winter Solstice 2010

No.102, aired December 22, 2010, third annual Winter Solstice special, celebrating imaginative peaks & outer darkness. Featuring further passages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, audiobook ran simultaneous with mostly Braxton’s Open Aspects, but also with other tracks. Played four Nursery Hymns by W.B. Yonder (a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson), where he sets nursery rhymes to classical hymns, thus re-uniting once popular (as opposed to classical) tunes with popular (as opposed to religious) content – more info at http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html.

Part 1

1. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / Redhead No.76 – W.B. Yonder
2. Overture To A Holiday In Berlin – Mothers Of Invention
3. Dead Christmas – Monster Magnet
4. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep / Melita – W.B. Yonder
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Only Junior Fiction – Godfried & Soy
7. Open Aspect, No.1.2 – Anthony Braxton
8. Eansy-Weensy Spider / Judas Maccabeus - W.B. Yonder
9. The Treeman – Buckethead

Part 2

1. This Old Man / Praise, My Soul - W.B. Yonder
2. All Friends & Kingdom Come – Monster Magnet
3. Open Aspect, No.6 – Anthony Braxton
4. Staggering Into The Night – Swelter
5. A Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown – Mothers Of Invention
6. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

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