The Horror ... The Horror ...

No.109, aired February 9, 2011, reached end of Heart Of Darkness.

Part 1

1. Death Drone II – George Crumb
2. Heart Of Darkness – Headstones
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. I’m Real Scared – SNFU
5. Allegro Grazioso from 6 Bagetelles for Wind Quintet – George Ligets
6. Soul Dressing – Booker T. & The MGs
7. La Vocabulaire – Lederhosen Lucil
8. Silenzio II – Sofia Gubaidulina
9. Cannibal Cafe – SNFU
10. Tales (8 Whisps) – Cecil Taylor

Part 2

1. Danger Zone – Capleton
2. Beta – Jorgen Plaetner
3. Wykydtron – 3 Inches Of Blood
4. Shaker Loops, A Final Shaking – John Adams
5. Boot-leg - Booker T. & The MGs
6. This Is The End – SNFU
7. Herr Noit – Lederhosen Lucil
8. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
9. The More Dem Try – Capleton

Weird Incantations

No.108, aired February 2, 2011. Second-last episode to feature Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.

Part 1

1. Pray For Darkness – Cancer Bats
2. In C – Terry Riley
3. Baby Please Don’t Go – Muddy Waters
4. Lunchmeataphobia (‘Think! It Ain’t Illegal Yet’) – Funkadelic
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. No Productivity – Subhumans
7. Wherever I Go – Eric Dolphy
8. Macrosolutions To Megaproblems – Voivod

Part 2

1. Firing Squad – Subhumans
2. Love Me – Eric Dolphy
3. Mannish Boy – Muddy Waters
4. Deserts, 3rd Interpolation – Edgard Varese
5. P.E. Squad / Doo Doo Chasers – Funkadelic
6. Broken Ship – Immaculate Machine
7. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans
8. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

China Steps?

No.106, aired January 19, 2011, featuring more from Part III of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness on audiobook.

Part 1

1. China Steps – Women
2. Chinese Checkers – Booker T. & The MGs
3. Foot Soldiers (Star Spangled Funky) – Funkadelic
4. Steps – Cecil Taylor
5. Baby’s Are Walking On The Water – Sarcastic Mannequins
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. China Pig – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Part 2

1. Druganaut – Black Mountain
2. Enter Evening [Soft Line Structure] – Cecil Taylor
3. Don’t Run Our Hearts Around – Black Mountain
4. Drag Open – Women
5. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Sailing Into Neptune

No.101, aired December 15, 2010.

If Uranus was the “Aviation” this episode brings the “Naval”, the final stop on our interplanetary voyage, landing at last on the seas of Neptune. Ezra Pound’s Canto II was read with the final track from Holst’s The Planets (Canto I was read on December 26, 2008, meaning I will have read all 120 Cantos on air by 2247!) And with the Winter Solstice only a week away we continued with the audiobook of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.

Part 1

1. Gilligan’s Island – Rude Norton
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Interplanetary Love - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
4. Sea Cruise – Rude Norton
5. Ego, The Living Planet – Monster Magnet
6. The Planets, Op.32, Neptune, The Mystic – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
7. Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty And Bones – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. 1983 ... (A Merman I should Turn To Be) - Jimi Hendrix
2. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Angels Saints & Demons
3. Moon Turn The Tides ... Gently Gently Away - Jimi Hendrix
4. Neptune (The Planet) – The Bad Plus
5. Anime Eyes – The Awkward Stage

Saturnalia

No. 98, aired November 24, 2010, continuing the interplanetary voyage with a visit to the home planet of Sun Ra, featuring music & poetry by the late modern jazz genius & cosmic explorer. Also, since Saturnalia was the Roman harvest festival, I played tracks from Shredded Wheat, a compilation released by Harvest King records.

Part 1

1. We Travel The Spaceways – Sun Ra
2. Fuck My Life – Rehashed
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Saturn – Sun Ra
5. Go Home Groseph – Kleins96
6. Everything Is Space – Sun Ra
7. Oye! – Chan Chan
8. The Planets, Op.32, Saturn, The Bringer Of Old Age – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) -- Heart Of Darkness (continuing from the Audiobook) – Joseph Conrad

Part 2

1. Unquestioned Conspirators – Failed States
2. Celestial Road – Sun Ra -- Cosmic Equation (poem read on air) – Sun Ra
3. Badges – Invasion
4. Saturn – John Coltrane
5. Otherness Blue – Sun Ra -- The Endless Realm / If I Told You (2 poems read on air) – Sun Ra

Half A Heart

No.86, aired September 1, 2010

This episode was cut short due to a family medical emergency. An interesting episode all the same, featuring segments from Chapter 2 of Heart Of Darkness with Xenakis & Arab-Canadian punks The Sarcastic Mannequins - a morbid serendipity was acheived as the Mannequins were heard yelling "Tandoori!" as Marlowe (the narrator of Heart Of Darkness) contemplated why his shipmates were not eating him.

Music heard between 11:25 and midnight were supplied by Phil, CJTR’s most flexible DJ.

Part 1

1. Rule No.1 – Sarcastic Mannequins
2. Things I Lack – Pillar
3. Kai – Iannis Xenakis
4. Teufelskind – Dog Eat Dogma
5. 4 Arabs In A Red Fury - Sarcastic Mannequins
6. Meganegativity - Dog Eat Dogma
7. Magic – Alien Sex Fiend

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

Heart Of Darkness, Heart Of Pain

No.81, a double episode (10pm – 12am) featuring more passages from Chapters 1 & 2 of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Aired July 28, 2010.

Part 1

1. Doo’s – Evil Dick
2. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. 6:00 News – Thinktank Fish
5. Feio – Miles Davis
6. Hatred – Queasy

Part 2

1. Oh My God! – Headstones
2. From The Seven Days: Set Sail For The Sun – Karlheinz Stockhausen

Part 3

1. How Many More Years – Howlin’ Wolf
2. Losing Control – Headstones
3. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down – Miles Davis
4. From The Eastern Gate 6 – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
5. Children Of The Grave – Black Sabbath

Part 4

1. Heart Of Darkness – Headstones
2. From The Seven Days: Communion – Karlheinz Stockhausen
3. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf
4. Sailing - Ripcordz

Infected Mushroom

Three or four weeks ago I was having lunch in Wascana Park and found in the bushes several CDs covered in mud & moisture & mould & did what any good DJ would do, salvaging everything that held some promise. The result was the addition of the following five titles to my playlist:

The Trinity – Sean Paul
Fist of God – MSTRKRFT
Collected – Massive Attack
Hellbilly Deluxe – Rob Zombie
Vicous Delicious – Infected Mushroom

So Episode no.78 was a bit of a departure for Naval Aviation In Audio, featuring tracks from all five of these dance-pop albums.

This episode also featured the opening Chapter of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness on Audiobook.

Part 1

1. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT
2. Motherless Child – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. The Trinity – Sean Paul
4. Perversion 99 – Rob Zombie
5. Vicious Delicious – Infected Mushroom
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Superbeast – Rob Zombie
8. Vuvuvu – MSTRKRFT

Part 2

1. Click Click - MSTRKFRT
2. Angel – Massive Attack
3. Mechanical Man – CPC Gangbangs
4. St. Hubert - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Heavyweight - Infected Mushroom

Strange Celestial Roads ... or Nationalist Fervor?

Episode no.77 celebrated the height of summer by playing all three tracks from Sun Ra’s 1979 jazz-rock exploration Strange Celestial Roads. To add a parallel strange journey, Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness was played along with Sun Ra, sometimes in the foreground, as if Conrad was on stage with the band, and sometimes receding to the backround, as if you were in a jazz club and were hearing Conrad telling his dark tale at the next table.

And to acknowledge July 1 (which began at the end of the program), we heard some national-themed Canadian punk rock.

For more information on W.B. Yonder (a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson)’s Oh Canada or for free downloads, visit: http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html

Part 1

1. Oh Canada – W.B. Yonder
2. Oh Canaduh – Cub (originally by The Subhumans)
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. We Hate The Bloody Queen – Mudhoney (originally by the Queen Haters)
5. Celestial Road – Sun Ra
6. Proud To Be A Canadian – Dayglo Abortions
7. Say – Sun Ra

Part 2

1. Maple Leaf Rag – Saxology (Scott Joplin)
2. Truck Stop Nun – Von Zippers (originally by Da Shyme)
3. I Am Canadian – D.O.A.
4. I’ll Wait For You – Sun Ra
5. Oh Canaduh – The Subhumans

Sailing into Midnight

This second episode featured passages from a book-on-cd version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness mixed-on-radio with musical tracks (aired November 19, 2008).

Part I:

1. (intro) Which One Is It? - Frank Zappa
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Cat and Mouse - Downing Turcotte Zubot & Dawson
4. The Regulator - Bad Brains
5. Don't Run Our Hearts Around - Black Mountain
6. Octandre I - Varese / French National Orchestra
7. Don't Need It - Bad Brains
8. Octandre II - Varese / French National Orchestra
9. Attitude - Bad Brains
10. Octandre III - Varese / French National Orchestra
11. Modern Music - Black Mountain
12. Banned in DC - Bad Brains

Part II:

1. Stockholm - Downing Turcotte Zubot & Dawson
2. Druganaut - Black Mountain
3. Offrandes (Chanson de La-haut) - Varese / French National Orchestra
4. No Hits - Black Mountain
5. Offrandes (La Croix du Sud) - Varese / French National Orchestra
6. Muchacho - Downing Turcotte Zubot & Dawson
7. Sailin' On - Bad Brains
8. Republicans - Frank Zappa