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

Sin Is A Good Man’s Brother

No.129, aired July 13, 2011, featuring more from C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, as re-imagined by the Focus On The Family theatric version on audiobook. High point of this episode was hearing the demons disgust at the idea of falling in love with a virgin during the drugged out guitar jam in Monster Magnet’s Black Mastermind.

Part 1

1. Jesus Sings The Blues – Junkhouse
2. Functions & Relations – King Cobb Steelie
3. Gimme The Love – Junkhouse
4. Snake Dance – Monster Magnet
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, Track C – Group Dancers – Charles Mingus
7. Praying For The Rain - Junkhouse

Part 2

1. Looking For God - Fucked Up
2. Black Mastermind – Monster Magnet
3. Vital Transformation – Mahavishnu Orchestra
4. Sin Is A Good Man’s Brother – Monster Magnet
5. The Chemistry Of Common Live – Fucked Up

Candy-Bright Discs Trundled All Ways Thru Electric Air

No.111, aired February 23, 2011, featuring on air readings of the poetry of Margaret Avison.

Part 1

1. Jim & Tammy’s Upper Room – Frank Zappa -- Snow – Margaret Avison
2. Peeler – Red Hot Lovers
3. Camino Real – The Ramblin’ Ambassadors -- Perspective – Margaret Avison
4. Mastermind – Monster Magnet
5. Ass Ass Or Ass – Red Hot Lovers
6. Fratres For Strings And Percussion – Arvo Part -- The Iconclasts / Butterfly Bones / Meeting Together Of Poles And Latitudes (In Prospect) / Thaw – Margaret Avison
7. Broomstick – L7

Part 2

1. Redline – Red Hot Lovers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Wo Xiang Tanbai – Immaculate Machine
4. Black Errors & Errors In Construction – Tim Hodgkinson -- Voluptuaries
And Others / Intra-Political – Margaret Avison
5. 100 Million Miles – Monster Magnet
6. Sunrise Redeemer – Frank Zappa -- Waking Up - Margaret Avison
7. Midnight Show – The Horribles

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

Winter Solstice 2010

No.102, aired December 22, 2010, third annual Winter Solstice special, celebrating imaginative peaks & outer darkness. Featuring further passages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, audiobook ran simultaneous with mostly Braxton’s Open Aspects, but also with other tracks. Played four Nursery Hymns by W.B. Yonder (a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson), where he sets nursery rhymes to classical hymns, thus re-uniting once popular (as opposed to classical) tunes with popular (as opposed to religious) content – more info at http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html.

Part 1

1. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / Redhead No.76 – W.B. Yonder
2. Overture To A Holiday In Berlin – Mothers Of Invention
3. Dead Christmas – Monster Magnet
4. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep / Melita – W.B. Yonder
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. The Only Junior Fiction – Godfried & Soy
7. Open Aspect, No.1.2 – Anthony Braxton
8. Eansy-Weensy Spider / Judas Maccabeus - W.B. Yonder
9. The Treeman – Buckethead

Part 2

1. This Old Man / Praise, My Soul - W.B. Yonder
2. All Friends & Kingdom Come – Monster Magnet
3. Open Aspect, No.6 – Anthony Braxton
4. Staggering Into The Night – Swelter
5. A Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown – Mothers Of Invention
6. 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

Next Stop Mars

No.93, aired October 20, 2010.

Spoken word was from an episode of the Twilight Zone radio drama titled "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up."

Probably one of the better episodes in terms of fortuitous synchronicity, one example being Coltrane's 10-minute tenor sax / drums duet with Rashied Ali (from Interstellar Space, 1967) being introduced with the words "If somebody is truly from outer space, they'll just go through the walls anyway, won't they?"

Part 1

1. Martian Graverobber – Forbidden Dimension
2. The Planets, Op.32, Mars, The Bringer Of War – Gustav Holst (composer) / Lost Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)
3. Photographs From Mars – Diodes
4. Mars – John Coltrane
5. Red Rubber Ball – Diodes

Part 2

1. King Of Mars – Monster Magnet
2. Next Stop Mars – Sun Ra
3. Child Star – Diodes
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. I Control, I Fly – Monster Magnet

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

Babylonion Nod Scene

No.88, aired September 15, 2010, featuring Chapters 17 – 21 of the book of Ezekiel from the Commuter’s Audio Bible.

Part 1

1. Pill Shovel – Monster Magnet
2. A Vaquero’s Dream – Freddie Pelletier
3. Feel Good Hit Of The Summer – Queens Of The Stone Age
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. One Sin – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
6. Our Prayor – Albert Ayler
7. Medicine – Monster Magnet
8. Change Has Come – Albert Ayler

Part 2

1. The Slippery Slope – Bob Evans
2. Nod Scene – Monster Magnet
3. Truth Is Marching In – Albert Ayler
4. Neighbourhood Butcher – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Sailing - Ripcordz

Wrong versus Right

Episode no.74, aired May 26, 2010.

Featured “right” & “wrong” songs, plus select chapters [18-24] from Leviticus, the Old Testament book of law and priestly ritual, which provided hilarious moral commentary as various sexual taboos & severe punishments were described to a backing of Charles Mingus’s Hearts' Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces from The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

Leviticus 21:9 provided some rather scary (and unintentional!) congruence as the text ordered the burning of promiscuous daughters of priests to the tune of Queen’s Of The Stone Age’s Burn The Witch.

Part 1

1. Two Lips, Two Lungs And One Tongue – Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Absolutely Right – Five Man Electrical Band
4. I’m Right, You’re Wrong – D.O.A.
5. Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces – Charles Mingus
6. Not Right – The Stooges
7. Burn The Witch – Queens Of The Stone Age
8. III Meditation – Pericardium
9. I Am Wrong – Nomeansno

Part 2

1. Corrupted - Pericardium
2. I Meditation – Pericardium
3. Ain’t No Right – Jane’s Addiction
4. From The Eastern Gate I – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
5. Ultimate Everything – Monster Magnet
6. II Meditation – Pericardium
7. You Were Right – Built To Spill
8. The Right Stuff – Monster Magnet

Son Of Mostly Monsters

No. 70, Aired April 14, 2010, a double epidsode.

Another Monter Movie-themed show, this time featuring several spine-tingling chapters from Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Lord 13 (track 3 from Tab...25) – Monster Magnet
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Take My Life ... Please – Dog Eat Dogma (from Dogzilla)
4. The Shape vs. Buckethead – Buckethead
5. Equatorial – Edgar Varese
6. Bastard Is As Bastard Does – Monster Voodoo Machine

Part 2

1. Longhair (track 2 from Tab...25) – Monster Magnet
2. Scissorhands – Les Georges Leningrad
3. Nocturnal – Edgar Varese

Part 3

1. 25 (track 1 from Tab...25) – Monster Magnet

Part 4

1. It Can’t Happen Here – The Mothers Of Invention
2. Ani Can Sing – Guerrilla Funk Monster
3. From The Eastern Gate II – Alexina Louie
4. Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet – The Mothers Of Invention
5. From The Eastern Gate III – Alexina Louie

Radiothon Special

Aired October 7, 2009. Featuring tracks from Frank Zappa's triple LP Joe's Garage, set in a futuristic society where music is illegal. Also featured 3 tracks from Shredded Wheat, the sample CD of hardcore punk & metal from Regina's Harvest King Records.

Part 1
1. Central Scrutinizer - Frank Zappa
2. Through the Eastern Gate 6 - Erica Goodman
3. Show Me - American Flame Whip
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Power Trip - Monster Magnet
6. Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa
7. Losing My Religion - Kleins96
8. Through the Eastern Gate 2 - Erica Goodman
9. Soup Stain Graves - Rehashed
10. Anarchavid - Lederhosen Lucil

Part 2
1. On the Bus - Frank Zappa
2. Banned in D.C. - Bad Brains
3. Crop Circle - Monster Magnet
4. A Token of My Extreme - Frank Zappa
5. Bars - Point Break
6. Scrutinizer Postlude - Frank Zappa
7. That Ol' G Minor Thing Again - Frank Zappa
8. Sailin' On - Bad Brains
9. Don't Need It - Bad Brains

Evil

Aired August 26, 2009, featuring Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung, a monodrama (in German) about a woman wandering in a forest at night searching for her lover. To this nightmarish setting was added Howlin' Wolf (for a fairy-tale aspect), as well as several monstrous heavy metal anthems by The Muscle Bitches, Monster Magnet, and Anvil. Three different versions of the Willie Dixon-penned blues classic Evil were heard, as performed by Howlin Wolf, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, and Monster Magnet.

Part 1
1. Sonata Tragica - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 2 - Howlin Wolf
2. I'm the Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
3. Erwartung, Sc.III - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. Cyclops Revolution - Monster Magnet
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Evil - Howlin' Wolf
7. Mothra - Anvil
8. Erwartung, Sc.I - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
9. Peek Through the Pines - Muscle Bitches -- The Wolf Talks 3 - Howlin' Wolf

Part 2
1. Dogs - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 1 - Howlin' Wolf
2. Evil - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
3. Erwartung, Sc.II - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. 666 - Anvil
5. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.1 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
6. Balls To the Wall - Muscle Bithches (originally performed by Accept)
7. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.3 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
8. Evil - Monster Magnet
9. Cielito Lindo - Blah Blah 666
10. Wolf At Your Door - Howlin' Wolf

Summer Solstice 2009

Featured text was the audiobook The Beginner's Guide to Dream Interpretation by Clarissa Pinkola.

Part 1
1. The Slippery Slope - Bob Evans
2. Twin Earth - Monster Magnet
3. The Alter Destiny - Sun Ra
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Starwalker - Buffy Sainte-Marie
6. Cage Around the Sun - Monster Magnet
7. Fred Brophy - Joel Fafard

Part 2
1. A Vaquero's Dream - Freddie Pelletier
2. Dinosaur Vacume - Monster Magnet
3. The Utter Nots - Sun Ra
4. Black Balloon - Monster Magnet
5. Moanin' At Midnight - Howlin' Wolf
6. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

Mostly Monsters

Episode 13 concerned mostly monsters, featuring Guerilla Funk Monster's Triptophonic, Monster Magnet from their store of treasures downloadable at http://www.monstermagnet.net, and The Bomboras' It Came from Pier 13. Passages from the anonymous Medieval epic Beowulf were read over several movements from Edgar Varese's Deserts.

Part 1
1. It Came from Pier 13 - The Bomboras
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Organic Space - Guerrilla Funk Monster
4. Deserts (1st episode) - Edgar Varese
5. Alone - Guerrilla Funk Monster
6. Live for the Moment - Monster Magnet
7. Deserts (2nd interpolation) - Edgar Varese
8. Break my Bones - Guerrilla Funk Monster

Part 2
1. Interlijeridoo - Guerrilla Funk Monster
2. Pier Thirteen - The Bomboras
3. Deserts (3rd interpolation) - Edgar Varese
4. Unsolid - Monster Magnet
5. Savages - Guerrilla Funk Monster
6. Into the Void - Monster Magnet
7. drunkbot robot jam - Guerrilla Funk Monster
8. Deserts (4th episode) - Edgar Varese
9. Leapin Lizards - Monster Magnet
10. puddle pants - Guerrilla Funk Monster
11. It Came from Pier 13 (Reprise) - The Bomboras

If Murk Devour ...

This was a Solstice/Christmas-themed episode. Aired December 24, 2008

"If murk devour,
and none weave again in gossamer:
These rays were ours,
We made and unmade them. Not the shudder of continents
doused us, the moon's passion, nor crash of comets.
In the fathomless heat of our dwarfdom, our dream's combustion,
We contrived the power, the blast that snuffed us."
- Earle Birney, Vancouver Lights

Part 1

1. Hodie Christus Natus Est (for Christmas Use) – James Healey Willan / Elmer Iseler Singers
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Nadir (from Earthrise Cycle) – Christos Hatzis / Peter Hannan – recorder; Douglas Perry – viola, tape track
4. Didja Get Any Onya? – Frank Zappa
5. Ego, the Living Planet – Monster Magnet -- Canto 1 - Ezra Pound
6. Soleils Couchanat for Chorus – André Prévost / Tudor Singers of Montréal
7. Dead Christmas – Monster Magnet

Part 2

1. Toads of the Short Forest – Frank Zappa
2. Magnus Dominus – Anonymous (probably a turn-of-the-18^th Century Ursuline nun in Québec City) / Tudor Singers of Montreal
3. Dopes to Infinity – Monster Magnet
4. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask – Frank Zappa
5. All Friends and Kingdom Come – Monster Magnet
6. Big Bang II for Tape & Mulitimedia Installation - Marcelle Deschênes -- Vancouver Lights - Earle Birney