As The Columns Of Hail Grew Thinner

No.157, aired February 8, 2012, featuring more passages from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, with the Back In Time album by James Blood Ulmer’s Odyssey plus other music.

The predominance of the colour white, the columns & arches & garlands in the ruins where the time travellor lands in 802,701 A.D. seem to represent classical culture, as seen through the rear-view mirror of western civilization – the simpleness and innocense, the childishness of the citizens, the fact that the architecture is in ruins, bring to mind Karl Marx’s assessment that the towering achievements of classical culture may represent unreachable standards for modern art, but are in reality the infancy of western culture.

Part 1

1. Science Fiction – Private School
2. Sonatine Baroque: Adagio – Murray Adaskin
3. D.N.I. – Man or Astroman?
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Shame I Feel – Corsage
6. Open Doors – Odyssey
7. Hawaii – Young Canadiens
8. Sonatine Baroque: Andante – Murray Adaskin
9. Test Driver – Man or Astroman?

Part 2

1. Baby How Long – Howlin’ Wolf
2. Last One – Odyssey
3. Seen A Fight – Tim Ray
4. Sonatine Baroque: Allegro – Murray Adaskin
5. Principles Unknown - Man or Astroman?
6. How Many More Years – Howlin’ Wolf
7. Happy Time – Odyssey
8. Synchronized Swimming – Popular Front

Sinner Takes All

No.124, aired June 8, 2011, featuring more passages from the Focus On The Family theatrical re-staging of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.

Part 1

1. Sinner Takes All – Forbidden Dimension
2. I Know A Guy Named Larry – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
3. Big Eater – The Bad Plus.
4. Look At What They Got – Genocide
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Klavierstuck XI-1 – Karlheinz Stockhausen
7. Sex Mad – Nomeansno

Part 2

1. Make ‘Em Mad – Genocide
2. Dirty Bond – The Bad Plus
3. Devil’s Got To Burn – James ‘Blood’ Ulmer
4. Descent Of The Damned – Buckethead
5. Invisible Dimension – Forbidden Dimension
6. Highway To Hell – AC/DC
7. Aunts Invasion – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
8. Running Meredith – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
9. Anime Eyes – The Awkward Stage

0 + 2 = 1

No.107, aired January 26, 2011, continuing with my conviction to play more Nomeansno in 2011, played the entire CD titled 0 + 2 = 1 in this double episode (10pm – 12am). Also featured readings from Tim Lilburn’s Names of God.

Part 1

1. Now – Nomeansno
2. Revelation March – James Blood Ulmer -- The Body Is The Gift Of Spirit: To Jan – Tim Lilburn
3. Certainly All – Guitar Slim
4. Hallucination Bomb – Monster Magnet
5. Second String Quartet – Charles Wuorinen -- To St. Dympna Of Gheel, Patroness Of Lunatics, For My Healing – Tim Lilburn
6. The Fall - Nomeansno

Part 2

1. 0 + 2 = 1 - Nomeansno
2. Symphony No.4, Heroes – Phillip Glass -- Comes To The Desert Of Algebra / Hosanna To Wisdom, The Divine Anima / And He Was Coming Into The World – Tim Lilburn
3. Valley Of The Blind - Nomeansno
4. City Of No Sun – John Parish & PJ Harvey
5. Ya Hozna – Frank Zappa
6. Taut – John Parish & PJ Harvey
7. The Night That Nothing Became Everything - Nomeansno
8. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension

Part 3

1. Bored With Sorcery – Monster Magnet
2. Whipping Post – Frank Zappa
3. Lost Fun Zone - John Parish & PJ Harvey
4. I Think You Know - Nomeansno
5. First Interlude – John Cage -- Theophany And Argument – Tim Lilburn
6. Mary - Nomeansno
7. Heela - John Parish & PJ Harvey

Part 4

1. Ghosts - Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Funf Nachtstucke (1990) For Violin And Piano: 1. Elegie – Hans Werner Henze -- Blessed Jan Ruysbroek, Gardening At Groenendael (1 & 2) – Tim Lilburn
4. Every Day I Start To Ooze - Nomeansno
5. Quatro Pezzi Per Orchestra (I) - Giacinto Scelsi -- Blessed Jan Ruysbroek, Gardening At Groenendael (3) / Jeremiad For The Body – Tim Lilburn
6. When Putting It All In Order Ain’t Enough - Nomeansno
7. Mole Machine – Simply Saucer
8. Joyful Reunion - Nomeansno

Utilitarian Donuts (part 1)

No.79, the first of two episodes to feature on-air readings from Issue no.1 of Utilitarian Donuts, Regina’s newest magazine of radical poetry & politics. For information on how to order a copy, go to http://utilitariandonuts.com/.

Part 1

1. All I Want Is Everything – Lungbutter
2. Sound Baffle – King Cobb Steelie -- No Mercy – Donna Burks
3. Markers - Lungbutter
4. A Phone Booth In The Middle Of Nowhere – Sheavy
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Ghetto Child – James Blood Ulmer
7. Farid – Grant Greene -- The Anti-Semantic - Paul Burnside / The Heavy Weight – W.B. Yonder / Ectopic? – Paul Friesen

Part 2

1. M10 – Derek Bailey -- Mary Shepard Letter (to Robert Betteridge)
2. Dominion of Deceipt – 3 Inches Of Blood
3. Hat And Beard – Eric Dolphy -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max – Robert Betteridge
4. Satisfy (Story Of My Life) – James Blood Ulmer
5. The Real Thing – Tim Postgage –- Travelodge Hotel – W.B. Yonder / Litany Of Complaints – Paul Burnside
6. Jackhammer – Anvil

20th Century Zeitgeist 1

Episode 50 begins a new series in which Naval Aviation in Audio will zoom back to key moments in 20th Century music & poetry - moments of change, moments of rupture. This first installment examined the period around 1905, featuring the first of four String Quartets of Arnold Schoenberg, the leading modernist composer for the first half of the century, and Ezra Pound, the lightning rod for the English language avant-garde during that period. And because NAIA is never about sticking to one place or style or period, always restlessly shifting, I also read poems by Anne Szumigalski, the Zeitgeist of Saskchewan & prairie poetry from at least the early 1970s thru to the late 1990s, as well as a selection of more contemporary music.

Part 1

1. Skulls in the Closet - Les Georges Leningrad
2. Revelation March - James Blood Ulmer -- Our Sullen Art - Anne Szumigalski
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Chaosmongers - Voivod
5. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (movement 1 - Nicht zu rasch) - Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet -- Sestina: Alt Aforte; The Seafarer (From the Anglo-Sazon) - Ezra Pound
6. Intro A - John Spencer Blues Explosion

Part 2

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit - The Bad Plus -- Skeps in the Orchard - Anne Szumigalski
2. Experiment - Voidvod
3. String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (movement 2 - MaBig (Heiter)) - Arnold Schoenberg -- Want of [thorn] Want of [Edh]; The Musicologist - Anne Szumigalski
4. Sleek Answer - Les Georges Leningrad
5. Morning Bride - James Blood Ulmer

Guitars & Birds & Freedom

Episode 9 explored the nature of freedom by reading the bird poems (sprung-rhythm Petrarchan sonnets) of 19th Century Jesuit monk Gerard Manley Hopkins with some ground-breaking solo improvizations from the late British guitarist Derek Bailey. Added to the mix were some Zappa, Hendrix, and several tracks from DOA's 2008 release Northern Avenger, named after Joe Keithley's guitar.

AS a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage
Man’s mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells—
That bird beyond the remembering his free fells;
This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life’s age.

Though aloft on turf or perch or poor low stage,
Both sing sometímes the sweetest, sweetest spells,
Yet both droop deadly sómetimes in their cells
Or wring their barriers in bursts of fear or rage.

(Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1877)

Part 1

1. This Machine Kills Fascists – DOA
2. intro -- M1 – Derek Bailey
3. Human Bomb – DOA
4. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Theme from Captain Black – James Blood Ulmer
6. M2 – Derek Bailey -- As Kingfishers Catch Fire – Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. Revealing – James Blood Ulmer
8. Set Them Free – DOA
9. M6 – Derek Bailey -- The Sea and the Skylark – Hopkins
10. Golden State – DOA

Part 2

1. But Who Was Fulcanelli? – Frank Zappa
2. Flux Capacitor - The Surfadelics
3. M5 – Derek Bailey -- The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins
4. Woodstock Improvization – Jimi Hendrix
5. Last Chance – DOA
6. M7 – Derek Bailey -- The Caged Skylark - Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. California Hardcore Last Chance - DOA
8. M8 – Derek Bailey
9. Villanova Junction – Jimi Hendrix
10. For Duane – Frank Zappa -- outro