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

Cozmo-Orgazmik Components + Un-Poems

No.130, aired July 20, 2011, the fourth in the Cosmo-Orgazmic Ascension series (see no.123 for info). The featured disc this time was Bobby Hutcherson’s 1965 jazz masterpiece Components, which was accompanied by an on-air reading of Dennis Lee’s incredible Un-Poems, the tonic twists of which did such lovely tango with the ping pong pounces of Hutcherson’s vibes. Another Best Episode Ever candidate.

Part 1

1. Riding That Oblivion Trail – Swelter
2. Pastoral – Bobby Hutcherson
3. Think Locally Fuck Globally – Gogol Bordello
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. A Grim Occupation In A Grim Landscape – Swelter
6. Movement – Bobby Hutcherson
7. Common Blood – Jungle
8. Little B’s Poem – Bobby Hutcherson

Part 2

1. Sex Mad – Nomeansno
2. Juba Dance – Bobby Hutcherson
3. Hey Little Child – Jungle
4. Air – Bobby Hutcherson
5. It’s So Fuck’N Great To Be Alive – Jungle
6. Dead Bob – Nomeansno
7. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension
8. March Of The Crabs - Anvil

Deserts: East v. West

No.105, aired January 12, 2011, featuring further passages from the book of Ezekiel (chapter nos. indicated). Alternate title: Clint Eastwood v. Yahweh.

Part 1

1. Hang ‘Em High – Booker T. & The MGs (Ch.37)
2. Shoot You In The Back – Motorhead
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Don’t We All – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. In Memoriam Alberto Guerro – Murray Schafer (Ch.27)
6. East Infection – Gogol Bordello
7. Parisian Eyes – Hylozoists (Ch.28)
8. West Coast Flyer – Brian Sklar & Prairie Fire

Part 2

1. Mala Vida – Gogol Bordello
2. East – Murray Schafer (Ch.26,29)
3. Fire, Fire – Motorhead
4. The Crippled Giant – Hylozoists (Ch.29,30)
5. Strange Uncles From Abroad – Gogol Bordello
6. Metamorfosi (La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso) – John Zorn (Ch.31)
7. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

Carnival

Episode no.73, aired May 12, 2010, 10 pm to midnight. A double episode.

Featured a playing of the entire Funhouse album, released by The Stooges in 1970, plus several tracks from Carnivocal: a Celebration of Sound Poetry, and an on-air reading of bpNichol’s The Martyrology of Saint And.

Part 1

1. Land of the Freak – King Khan and the Shrines
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Ubu Hubbub – Christian Bok
4. Loose – The Stooges
5. The Loose – Jon Ballantyne
6. 60 Revolutions – Gogol Bordello
7. Dirt – The Stooges
8. Sodom City – Red Hot Lovers

Part 2

1. Mange Avec Tes Doigts – Les Georges Leningrad
2. The Carney – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. The Future For Les – Les Georges Leningrad -- The Martyrology of Saint And - bpNichol
4. 1970 – The Stooges
5. “A” Yantra – First Draft
6. Annabel – Forbidden Dimension

Part 3

1. Down In The Street – The Stooges
2. Monorails & Satellites – Sun Ra
3. Tease Me, Please Me – Anvil
4. Carnival Overture – Oskar Morawetz
5. Restlessness – First Draft
6. T.V. Eye – The Stooges

Part 4

1. Sigh About This – Lederhosen Lucil
2. The Alter Destiny – Sun Ra
3. Funhouse – The Stooges
4. L.A. Blues – The Stooges
5. On Dissecting The Larynx – W. Mark Sutherland
6. Lonely Lonely – Les Georges Leningrad
7. Start Wearing Purple – Gogol Bordello
8. Sailing – Ripcordz

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

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

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

The Road to Wealth

This 8th episode, aired February 7, 2009, featured Suse Orman's book-on-cd The Road to Wealth played simultaneously with instrumental tracks and on occasion rudely interrupted by Gogol Bordello's World Underdog Strike CD among others. Suse's staccato delivery worked particularly well with Ornette Coleman's mid 70s free jazz fusion on the Science Fiction LP.

Part 1

1. Intro -- Fiesta from Piano Concerto – Claude Champagne; CBC Montreal Orchestra, Neil Chotem on piano
2. How Many More Years – Howlin' Wolf
3. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Sally – Gogol Bordello
5. from Symphony No. 3 (Allegro Vivace – Lento) - Jacques Joseph Robert Hétu; National Arts Centre Orchestra
6. Do the Manic – The Sleepless Knights
7. Civilization Day – Ornette Coleman
8. Not a Crime – Gogol Bordello
9. I, Robot – Turnbull AC's

Part 2

1. Fast and Frenzied (from Flute Concerto) - R. Murray Schafer; Robert Aitken – flute; Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
2. Immigrant Punk – Gogol Bordello
3. Law Years – Ornette Coleman
4. Fuck Knob – The Quiffs
5. Thunder Dragon (from Music for Heaven and Earth) – Alexina Diane Louie; Esprit Orchestra
6. I Would Never Wanna Be Young Again – Gogol Bordello
7. Rock the Clock – Ornette Coleman
8. Outro – Fiesta from Piano Concerto – Claude Champagne
9. Moanin' at Midnight – Howlin' Wolf