Conquistador

No. 59, aired 10pm - midnight, January 27, 2010. First ever Double Episode!

And fittingly, this 2-hour epic episode featured more chapters from Herman Melville's epic novel Moby Dick (see #58), with each of the four 30-minute segments featuring at least one epic-length musical track.

Part 1

1. M10 - Derek Bailey -- Ch.14 (Nantucket)
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
4. Because Because Because - Escapade -- Ch.24 (The Advocate), Ch.19 (The Prophet)

Part 2

1. Deadly Sinners - 3 Inches of Blood
2. Rasas I - Norma Beecroft -- Ch.35 (The Mast-Head)
3. Telephone Song - Tim Postgate -- Ch.35 (con't)
4. M1 - Derek Bailey -- Ch.35 (con't)
5. Two Went To Sleep - Norma Beecroft

Part 3

1. Time We Left This World Today - Hawkwind -- Ch.37 (Sunset)
2. Conquistador - Cecil Taylor -- Ch.36 (The Quarter Deck)
3. Revenge Is A Vulture - 3 Inches of Blood

Part 4

1. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic -- Ch.48 (The First Lowering)
2. Pathways to Unknown Worlds - Sun Ra -- Ch.48 (con't)
3. Filthy Habits - Frank Zappa -- Ch.48 (con't)
4. M11 - Derek Bailey
5. Destroy The Orcs - 3 Inches of Blood

Fly Without Fear

Episode 25 begins the new day with a statement of purpose - to conquer fear of flight, thru flight! Featured KRS Edstrom's audiobook Fly Without Fear: Guided Meditations for a Relaxing Flight, a spoken-word treatise on fearlessness including easy-listening background music - to which was added the following in the aural foreground -

Part 1:
1. Airports - The (International) Noise Conspiracy
2. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. You're Gonna Crash - Streetheart
5. Master of the Universe - Hawkwind
6. New Drug Queens - Pink Mountaintops
7. Silver Rocket - Sonic Youth

Part 2:
1. You Shouldn't Do That - Hawkwind
2. From the Eastern Gate I - Erica Goodman
3. Go to Hell - Streetheart
4. 'Cross the Breeze - Sonic Youth
5. Blast Off - The (International) Noise Conspiracy