A Token Of My Machine

No.156, aired February 1, 2012. Played the opening Chapters of an audiobook of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, accompanied by instrumental music by Webern, Korsrud, Buckethead, and Les Georges Leningrad, and interrupted by songs with time-related lyrical themes.

Frank Zapp’s A Token Of My Extreme was thrown in merely because it references a “machine” – and turned out to provide the most stunning correspondence with The Time Machine, performing something like a psychoanalysis of H.G.Wells’ text, in which the time machine becomes an object of fetish for the circle of late-nineteenth century gentlemen viewing it.

Some people think
That if they go too far
They’ll never get back
To where the rest of
Them are
I might be crazy
But there’s one thing
I know
You might be surprised
At what you find
When ya go!
- Frank Zappa, A Token Of My Extreme

“We all saw the lever turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone—vanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare.”
- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

If you been
Mod-o-fied,
It’s an illusion,
An yer in between
Don’t you be
Tarot-fied,
It’s just a lot of nothin’,
So what can it mean?
- Frank Zappa, A Token Of My Extreme

Part 1

1. Three Little Pieces For Cello & Piano, op.11, no.2 – Anton Webern
2. Xs & Os – John Korsrud
3. One Tooth Of The Time Train – Buckethead
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Part Of The Season – Long Time Comin’
6. Three Little Pieces For Cello & Piano, op.11, no.1 – Anton Webern
7. Shape Of Things To Come – Diodes
8. Glurp For 14 Musicians – John Korsrud
9. Blower – Voivod

Part 2

1. Girl On The Grass - John Korsrud
2. Eight Hours A Day – Northwest Passage
3. Three Little Pieces For Cello & Piano, op.11, no.3 – Anton Webern
4. Arc Of The Pendulum – Buckethead
5. Time Damage – Diodes
6. The Future For Less – Les Georges Leningrad
7. A Token Of My Extreme – Frank Zappa
8. Zippy Pinhead – John Korsrud

Two-Year Anniversary Special

No.97, aired November 17, 2010, featuring selections (short snippets + some longer tracks) from Frank Zappa’s Lather album (& related material), and only the best of musical artists that I had no knowledge of before the past 12 months of radio programming.

Part 1

1. Lather (Intro, 1st :25 of CD 1, Track 1) – Frank Zappa
2. Ain’t Got Time To Waste – Red Hot Lovers
3. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT – Prophet’s Philosophy / Conscience Ahg Heng Dem – Capleton
4. Whatever Happened To All The Fun In The World – Frank Zappa
5. Crazy Nights – 3 Inches Of Blood
6. Scissorhands – Les Georges Leningrad
8. Wait A Minute – Frank Zappa
9. Imeltime Of The Season – Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice
10. Revised Music For Guitar & Low-Budget Orchestra – Frank Zappa
11. Alpha Punk – Ripcordz

Part 2

1. Lather (alternate intro, 1st :32 of CD 4, Track 5) – Frank Zappa
2. Teenage Crimewalk – CPC Gangbangs
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. The Rook – Sheavy
5. RDNZL – Frank Zappa
6. Midnight Movie Star – The Diodes
7. Eye Of The Vortex – Helios Creed
8. Tryin’ To Grow A Chin (1st :22 of Lather CD1, Track 7, then cut to Sheik Yerboutti version of same song)
9. Sailing - Ripcordz

Radiothon Spectacular

No.91, aired October 6, 2010. With words from Dr. Wayne Dyer’s audiobook Peace For All Of Us, which provided a few moments of nightmarish serendipty, particularly as Dr. Dyer discussed war-time xenophobia to the tune of Les Georges Leningrad’s horror-shrieks in Ennio Morricone.

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Part 1

1. Dang – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2. That Ol’ G Minor Thing Again – Frank Zappa
3. Skulls In The Closet – Les Georges Leningrad
4. Here’s To The Punks – Ripcordz
5. Great Day – Storm Inc.
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Captain Fortune – Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser
8. Stop And Listen – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Part 2

1. Man-Size Sextet – PJ Harvey
2. No More Headcheese – Hanson Brothers
3. Dun Pressed On – Evil Dick
4. 50 FT Queenie – PJ Harvey
5. Ditch - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
6. Ennio Morricone - Les Georges Leningrad
7. Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus – Frank Zappa
8. Hardcore Jollies – Funkadelic
9. Sailing – Ripcordz

Utilitarian Donuts (part 2)

No.80, featuring more readings from Utilitarian Donuts No.1. For information on how to order a copy, go to http://utilitariandonuts.com/.

Part 1

1. Hylozoists – Hylozoists -- Drifting – Donna Burks
2. Pachuco Cadaver – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
3. Think Locally Fuck Globally – Gogol Bordello
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Gasoline – American Flamewhip
6. Jan Jan – Grant Greene -- RAW Manifesto (Pts.1&2) – Michael Bell, David Cawood, Donna Burks, et al.
7. Mammal Beats – Les Georges Leningrad

Part 2

1. Pena - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. 903/2 – ISKRA -- RAW Manifesto (Pt.3) / Regina Eats Itself – Zink Oxeye
3. Here’s To The Punks – Ripcordz
4. Sangue Puro - Les Georges Leningrad -- and DNA – W.B. Yonder / Salvolutionary Frivolatry: Being anAbOvoriginal SinThesis – Paul Friesen
5. Oh No! Bruno! - Nomeansno

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

1937. Animal Gravepools

No. 55, aired December 30, 2009.

This was the final of the 4-part "20th Century Zeitgeist" series. Although the 20th Century Zeitgeist concept will continue in some form, examining moments of rupture & transformation in 20th Century culture, this was the final of the four episodes featuring the string quartets of Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg's final quartet was composed around 1937, so the episode also featured some swinging jazz from around that year by Count Basie & poetry published 1936-1938 by Dylan Thomas.

In celebration of the dark limbo between solstice & the new year, the theme of Part 1 was the grave, whereas Part 2 was all about wildness - so I guess combined they describe an animal coming out of hibernation - not quite spring yet, but wtf?

Part 1

1. Dark Rapture - Count Basie
2. The Gravedigger - SNFU
3. Mammal Beats - Les Georges Leningrad
4. Graveyard - Butthold Surfers
5. String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (Movement 1) - Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet -- Altarwise By Owl-light (I & X) / Twenty-four Years - Dylan Thomas
6. Soup Stain Graves - Rehashed
7. HAY - Butthole Surfers
8. Topsy - Count Basie
9. Bodies In The Wall - SNFU

Part 2

1. Eli Eli Lamma sabacthani - Les Georges Leningrad
2. Wild Life - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3. String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (Movement 1) - Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet -- How Shall My Animal / On No Work of Words - Dylan Thomas
4. Loser At Life/Loser At Death - SNFU
5. Naval Aviation In Audio - Frank Zappa
6. The O-Men - Butthole Surfers
7. I Wanna Be Your Dog - Stooges
8. Doggin' Around - Count Basie
9. Eli Eli Lamma sabacthani - Les Georges Leningrad

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