Sun Ship

No.152, aired January 4, 2012, still celebrating the Solstice season with three tracks from John Coltrane’s 1965 Sun Ship LP and the Phaithon episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (on audiobook), where the human son of Apollo usurps the sun chariot with disastrous consequences.

Part 1

1. Off The Deep End – Insex
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Dearly Beloved – John Coltrane
4. Nothing Holding You – Active Dog
5. Amen – John Coltrane
6. Awakening – Mahavishnu Orchestra
7. Suicide Ride – CPC Gangbangs

Part 2

1. Don’t Go Lookin’ For Trouble – Mose Scarlett
2. The Noonward Race – Mahavishnu Orchestra
3. (Right On) Thru – L7
4. Sun Ship – John Coltrane
5. Beautiful Sun – Little Miss Higgins
6. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
7. I Control, I Fly – Monster Magnet

Cosmo-Orgazmic Finale

No.149, aired December 14, 2011. This was the finale of the Orgazmo-Cosmic Ascension series, featuring the 1st edit of John Coltrane’s Ascension (the 2nd was played on June 1, 2011 to kick off the series).

The episode culminated with a playing of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (on audiobook) with the final few minutes of Ascension – an episode wherein Neptune raises his trident as the sea rises apocalyptic and armies of dolphins invade the woods – unplanned but strangely appropriate!

Part 1

1. Whatever Would Beckett Have Said - Swelter
2. Descent Garden – Emetics
3. Cage Around The Sun – Monster Magnet
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Ascension, edit 1 – John Coltrane

Part 2

1. Ascension, edit 1 (continued) – John Coltrane
2. Caving In – Emetics
3. Dinosaur Vaccum – Monster Magnet

Cosmo-Orgazmic Ascension

No.123, aired June 1, 2011.

In 1998, British Music critic Ben Watson wrote that “in the masterpieces of modern music – Varese’s Arcana, Boulez’s Marteau sans Maitre, Zappa’s Yo’ Mama, Coltrane’s Ascension, Xenakis’s Kraanerg, Hutcherson’s Components, Ascension’s Broadcast – there is an intimation of impersonal event, the scary objectivity of quasars unfolding in outer space. It corresponds to the moment of orgasm.”

Over the summer and fall of 2011, Naval Aviation In Audio (Wednesday 9-10 pm) will play each of the works in Watson’s cosmo-orgasmic musical canon, beginning with this episode which featured Edition II (the earlier of two takes) of John Coltrane’s Ascension, a 40+ minute, 11-piece stellar excursion into the outer limits of freedom, discipline & risk that still divides audiences. Ricard Giner wrote “Is this extraordinary document an indigestible cacophony of anarchy in brass and bass, or the artistic culmination of a man's desire to explore the outer reaches of tonality and the inner limits of freedom? Is Ascension a transcendental event in jazz history or an anomalous experiment that perseveres in its periphery?”

Some of the spicier passages from Watson’s book were read during the quieter moments of Ascension.

Part 1

1. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic
2. Brain Scan – Voivod
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Ascension, Edition II – John Coltrane

Part 2

1. Ascension, Edition II – John Coltrane (continued) -– select pages from Art Class & Cleavage – Ben Watson
2. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer
3. Sailing On – Bad Brains

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

Nightflight To Venus!

No.90, aired September 29, 2010, continuing the celestial voyage to the planet Venus, with a live reading of Canto VIII of Dante’s Paradiso. No I didn’t play Boney M.

Part 1

1. Speed Load’er – Red Hot Lovers
2. Dancing In The Sun – Sun Ra
3. Rocket Number Nine – Sun Ra
4. Shivers Down My Spine – King Khan & The Shrines
5. Negasonic Teenage Warhead – Monster Magnet
6. The Planets, Op.32, No.2, Venus, The Bringer Of Peace – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
7. I Wanna Be A Girl – King Khan & The Shrines

Part 2

1. Vegas Knights – Red Hot Lovers
2. Venus – John Coltrane
3. Destination Venus – Man ... Or Astroman?
4. Big Eyed Beans From Venus – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer
6. Venus In Furs – Monster Magnet

1967! Drums Of Passion

No.84, aired August 18, 2010, featuring avant-garde, jazz & rock music from 1967, plus the 22-minute Drums Of Passion by Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson, an incredible exploration of the percussive capabilities of the electric guitar & baritone sax. Also continued with Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Rimb Nugget – Ugly Ducklings
2. 1967 – Dayglo Abortions
3. Song 1 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
4. Eyes – The Collectors
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Leo – John Coltrane
7. Nothin’ – Ugly Ducklings
8. Song 2 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
9. Song 3 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
10. Song 4 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen

Part 2

1. Abba Zaba – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. Drums Of Passion - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
3. Listen To Me – One Way Street

Airway To Heaven

A starry vault, a firmament dividing celestial waters, paradisiacal mind state, cloud city, New Jerusalem, City of God ... What's your conception of Heaven or the heavens? Can you get there by air? From 10pm to midnight on February 3, 2010 Naval Aviation In Audio tried, reading the poetry of Canadian Christopher Dewdney (Radiant Inventory) and Brit Keston Sutherland (Antifreeze) with Alexina Louie's From the Eastern Gate and other music. This episode included the entire Hairway to Steven album by the Butthole Surfers, and just to make sure things didn't get too serious, 3 blasphemous tracks from Frank Zappa's You Are What You Is. Second ever Double Episode.

Part 1

1. Ricky - Butthole Surfers
2. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Exit Plexit - Simply Saucer
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. John E. Smoke - Butthole Surfers
6. From The Eastern Gate 1 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Radiant Inventory / This My Emissary - Christopher Dewdney
7. Sun Ship - John Coltrane
8. I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas - Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Sol, Pt. 1 - Wooden Shjips -- Ten Past Nine - Keston Sutherland
2. From The Eastern Gate 4 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Fart Song - Butthole Surfers
4. Attaining - John Coltrane
5. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing - Frank Zappa
6. From The Eastern Gate 3 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Jettison Khaki - Christopher Dewdney

Part 3

1. From The Eastern Gate 6 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
2. Jimi - Butthole Surfers
3. Dumb All Over - Frank Zappa
4. From The Eastern Gate 5 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Winter Central - Christopher Dewdney
5. Mole Machine - Simply Saucer -- Among The Golden Sheaves - Keston Sutherland
6. Julio Iglesias - Butthole Surfers

Part 4

1. Rocky - Butthole Surfers
2. Amen - John Coltrane
3. From The Eastern Gate 7 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Heaven - Christopher Dewdney
4. Backass - Butthole Surfers
5. Heavenly Bank Account
6. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
7. Sailing - Ripcordz

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

Ecstatic Lamentations

This fourth episode featured passages from the Lamentations of Jeremiah taken from the Commuters Audio Bible played simultaneouly with works by modern Canadian composers John Jacob Weinzweig, François Morel, Harry Freedman, and Marcelle Deschênes. The ecstatic part was supplied mainly by John Coltrane's late 1965 Sextet on the Meditations LP and a couple of tracks from Captain Beefheart's 1969 masterpiece Trout Mask Replica. Aired December 3/08

Part I

1. Intro -- Quarks (from 15 Pieces for Harp) - John Jacob Weinzweig -- Lamentations Ch.4
2. Frownland - Captain Beefheart
3. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Lisa Run – Bob Wiseman
5. Étude de sonorité for piano No 2 - François Morel -- Lamentations Ch 3
6. China Pig – Captain Beefheart
7. Compassion – John Coltrane
8. The Dust Blows Forward 'N the Dust Blows Back – Captain Beefheart

Part II

1. Dachau Blues – Captain Beefheart
2. Big Bang II for Tape & Mulitimedia Installation - Marcelle Deschênes -- Lamentations Ch.1
3. Row the Boat – Bob Wiseman
4. Toccata for Flute & Soprano - Harry Freedman
5. The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost – John Coltrane -- Lamentations Ch.2
6. Outro -- Quarks - John Jacob Weinzweig (brief reprisal)