Jangling Discords

No.158, aired February 15, 2012. This episode began with thediscovery of the poem Ode to Bartok by Hungarian poet Gyula Illyes, astranslated by Canadian poet Margaret Avison from a literal translation by IlonaDuczynska. The poem was read on-air with music by Bartok.

Also featured accidental passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses onaudiobook – which turned out to be fortuitous as the accidently-selectedpassage told of the daughter of Cecrops who bargained with the god Mercury for gold to help him seduce her sister. This ancient drama was rudely interruptedby the Pack A.D.’s Gold Rush, which begins “I’m gonna find my gold.”
Part 1

1. Yikes – Facepuller
2. I.Lassu: Moderato – Bela Bartok
3. Bucketfull – Tandoori Knights
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. String Quartet No.2, B.B.75: II Allegro molto capriccioso – Bela
Bartok
6. Gold Rush – The Pack A.D.
7. String Quartet No.5, B.B.110: III Scherzo – Bela Bartok

Part 2

1. The Tower – Nomeansno
2. Allegro Barbaro, BB63: III – Bela Bartok
3. Dress On – Tandoori Knights
4. String Quartet No.5, B.B.110: I Allegro – Bela Bartok
5. La Cucaracha – Blah Blah 666
6. String Quartet No.4, B.B.95: III Non troppo lento – Bela Bartok
7. Snow – The Pack A.D.

Rats & Scum & Bagetelles

No. 142, aired October 12, 2011. This was a primer episode for the Nomeansno concert at the Distrikt (Oct 14) and Napalm Death at the Exchange (Oct 19). During Tony Oxley's The Advocate a passage from the opening chapter of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was read on air.

Part 1

1. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.1 - Anton Webern
2. No Sex - Nomeansno
3. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.5 - Anton Webern
4. It's Catching Up - Nomeansno
5. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.2 - Anton Webern
6. Teresa, Give Me That Knife - Nomeansno
7. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.3 - Anton Webern
8. Brother Rat - Nomeansno
9. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.6 - Anton Webern
10. What Slayde Says - Nomeansno
11. Six Bagetelles For String Quartet, Op.9, No.4 - Anton Webern
12. Oh No! Bruno! - Nomeansno

Part 2

1. Scum - Napalm Death
2. I've Got A Gun - Nomeansno
3. Life? - Napalm Death
4. The Advocate, For Strings And Percussion - Tony Oxley
5. Control - Napalm Death
6. Angel And Devils - Nomeansno
7. M.A.D. - Napalm Death
8. Naval Aviation In Art? - Frank Zappa
9. The Hawk Killed The Punk - Nomeansno
10. Disappear - Nomeansno

Godspeed You CJTR!

No.141, aired October 5, 2011, Special Radiothon 2011 Episode

This episode saw NAIA moving more toward a free-form radio art format, particularly in the second half, where Godspeed! You Black Emperor’s Static formed a foundation onto which was added 3 guitar pieces by Regina’s Bob Evans, spoken word from Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits, BBC Sound Effects, and a live reading of the opening of the incredible Cape Hattaras sequence in Hart Crane’s The Bridge.

Part 1

1. Spinning Plates – Radiohead
2. Sally – Gogol Bordello
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Transcendental Medication – Dog Eat Dogma
5. Jelly 292 – Jimi Hendrix
6. Dance Of The Headless Bourgoisie - Nomeansno

Part 2

1. 001 Loser’s Club – D.O.A.
2. Static – Godspeed! You Black Emperor -- Dune / Khamenkule / Yesterday – Bob Evans
3. Midnight Show – The Horribles

The Fall ... or the Laff?

No.139, aired September 21, 2011, featuring a live reading from the opening chapter of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Part 1

1. The Fall – Nomeansno
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Things That Look Like Meat – Frank Zappa
4. The Sky Is Falling – Junkhouse
5. Orphans Of Living – Augury
6. Rebonds A pour set de percussion – Iannis Xenakis (comp.) / Pedro Carneiro – percussion

Part 2

1. It Ain’t The Fall That Kills You – Guitar Shorty
2. Bottom Of The Barrel – Grant Green
3. Simian Cattle – Augury
4. All Fall Together – Ford Pier
5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Dumitrescu + Songs Of Experience

No.138, aired September 14, 2011, featuring a reading of William Blake’s Songs Of Experience with music by Iancu Dumitrescu.

Part 1

1. Portland – Bill Bourne
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Stop It – Nomeansno
4. Movemur et Sumus (III) – Iancu Dumitrescu

Part 2

1. Hunt The She Beast - Nomeansno
2. The Things I Used To Do – Guitar Slim
3. Whadiddy Do – Bill Bourne
4. Basoreliefs Simphonique – Iancu Dumitrescu
5. Freeway Babe – Bill Bourne
6. Obsessed – Nomeansno

Cozmo-Orgazmik Components + Un-Poems

No.130, aired July 20, 2011, the fourth in the Cosmo-Orgazmic Ascension series (see no.123 for info). The featured disc this time was Bobby Hutcherson’s 1965 jazz masterpiece Components, which was accompanied by an on-air reading of Dennis Lee’s incredible Un-Poems, the tonic twists of which did such lovely tango with the ping pong pounces of Hutcherson’s vibes. Another Best Episode Ever candidate.

Part 1

1. Riding That Oblivion Trail – Swelter
2. Pastoral – Bobby Hutcherson
3. Think Locally Fuck Globally – Gogol Bordello
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. A Grim Occupation In A Grim Landscape – Swelter
6. Movement – Bobby Hutcherson
7. Common Blood – Jungle
8. Little B’s Poem – Bobby Hutcherson

Part 2

1. Sex Mad – Nomeansno
2. Juba Dance – Bobby Hutcherson
3. Hey Little Child – Jungle
4. Air – Bobby Hutcherson
5. It’s So Fuck’N Great To Be Alive – Jungle
6. Dead Bob – Nomeansno
7. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension
8. March Of The Crabs - Anvil

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

Times A-Changing / Mission Statement

No.120, aired May 11, 2011 - First ever episode at new 9 - 10 PM time slot.

Featured passages on how to develop a mission statement from Stephen R. Covey's audiobook The 7 Habits Of Highly Successful People, played simultaneously with instrumental tracks by Frank Zappa, Blah Blah 666, Sun Ra, King Cobb Steelie – and just to make sure things didn’t get dull, various animals were heard from a sound effects CD. In lieu of actually developing a "mission statement" for Naval Aviation In Audio," A poem from Sun Ra's Pathways To Unknown Worlds was read on-air.

Part 1

1. The Times They Are A-Changing – D.O.A.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Chico Lympico – Blah Blah 666
4. Packin’ A Rod – L7
5. Pathways To Unknown Worlds – Sun Ra
6. Self Pity – Nomeansno

Part 2

1. What’s Going On – Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
2. Pass The Goldon Falcon – King Cobb Steelie
3. Shove – L7
4. Untitled Track 2 (from Pathways To Unknown Worlds CD) – Sun Ra
5. Love Thang – Nomeansno
6. Jim & Tammy’s Upper Room – Frank Zappa
7. March Of The Crabs – Anvil -- poem from Pathways To Unknown Worlds CD booklet – Sun Ra
8. Sailing - Ripcordz

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

Nomeansno - with a Vengence

No.103, aired December 29, 2010. No theme, except correcting the woeful lack of Nomeansno played on this program over the past 12 months with four tracks by Nomeansno at their violent jazz-punk-apocalyptic best from Dance Of The Headless Bourgeoisie. Also featured a live reading from Keston Sutherland’s Antifreeze.

Part 1

1. Entflieht auf leichen Kahnen, op.2 – Anton Webern
2. Safesurfer – Julian Cope -- Slits In Three Odes 1 – Keston Sutherland
3. Five Songs, Op.3, II – Anton Webern
4. The Rape – Nomeansno
5. Five Songs, Op.3, I – Anton Webern
6. The World Wasn’t Built In A Day – Nomeansno
7. Partner – Lungbutter

Part 2

1. Five Songs, Op.3, III – Anton Webern
2. Give Me The Push – Nomeansno
3. Zacotic – Jon Ballantyne -- Slits In Three Odes 2-7 – Keston Sutherland
4. Fast Money Blessing – King Cobb Steelie -- A Bang Covers Me / Sex Crater – Keston Sutherland
5. Five Songs, Op.3, IV – Anton Webern
6. I’m An Asshole – Nomeansno
7. Five Songs, Op.3, V – Anton Webern
8. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
9. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf
10. Midnight Show – The Horribles

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

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

Winter Solstice Special 2009

Aired December 23, 2009. Spoken word snippets came from Frank Zappa's Opera Pantomime Civilization Phase III.

Part 1

1. "Dark water!" - Frank Zappa
2. Dark Holler - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
3. "Have you heard their band?" - Frank Zappa
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Gone Black - CPC Gangbangs
6. Eleking the Clay - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
7. "Saliva can only take so much" / Buffalo Voice - Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. "Someplace else right now" - Frank Zappa
2. Tired of Waiting - Nomeansno
3. Sorcerer's Stone Of The Magi - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
4. "A kayak (on snow)" / N-Lite - Frank Zappa
5. M1 - Derek Bailey
6. Time Wasted - West Port Murders

Pink Desert

Episode 40, featured an on-air reading of British poet J.H. Prynne's High Pink On Chrome with Edgar Varese's Deserts.

Part 1
1. Ass Machine Box - Lungbutter
2. Deserts, 1st episode - Edgar Varese
3. The Day Everything Became Nothing - Nomeansno
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Chico Lympico - Blah Blah 666
6. Deserts, 1st interpolation - Edgar Varese
7. I Ate That - Lungbutter
8. Deserts, 2nd episode - Edgar Varese

Part 2
1. Suicide Ride - CPC Gangbangs
2. Deserts, 2nd interpolation - Edgar Varese
3. BurntDeadBurnt - Lungbutter
4. Deserts, 3rd episode - Edgar Varese
5. It's Catching Up - Nomeansno
6. Deserts, 3rd interpolation - Edgar Varese
7. 10,000 Years - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
8. Deserts, 4th episode - Edgar Varese
9. Home Sexuality - Blah Blah 666
10. Driving Me To Habit - CPC Gangbangs

The Golfer's Rite of Spring

Aired March 25, 2009. This episode celebrated the Vernal Equinox by recasting Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. In place of the virgin dancing herself to death was sportswriter & virgin caddy Rick Reilly's death-dance for the primadonnas of pro golf - Reilly's audiobook Who's Your Caddy was played with Stravinsky's violent modern ballet. And just to keep things interesting, tracks from two Victoria, BC punk bands, The Dayglo Abortions & Nomeansno, were played between movements.

Part 1

1. Young Girl's Dances - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Wake Up - Nomeansno
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Wake Up America - Dayglo Abortions
5. Mock Abductions - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Stupid Songs - Dayglo Abortions
7. Round Dances - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Ashes - Nomeansno
9. Games of Rival Tribes - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Inside My Head - Dayglo Abortions
11. Wise Elder's Procession - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
12. Stupid World - Dayglo Abortions
13. Dance of the Earth - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2
1. Mystic Circles - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. I See a Mansion in the Sky - Nomeansno
3. Glorification - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Mr. in Between - Nomeansno
5. Ancients' Ritual - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Bedtime Story - Dayglo Abortions
7. Sacrificial Dance - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. 'Till I Die - Nomeansno

Disciplines of Execution

This episode is named after The Four Disciplines of Execution by Stephen R. Covey and Chris McChesney, and featured selections from the book-on-cd of that work mixed in with various musical tracks, as well as some live-in-the-studio readings from A Concise History of Capital Punishment in Canada by Frank W. Anderson mixed with the Jack in the Box suite by Erik Satie. Erred November 26, 2008

Part 1:

1. Intro -- Jack in the Box 1 - Erik Satie / CBC National Orchestra
2. Naval Aviation in Audio – Frank Zappa
3. War Ensemble – Slayer
4. Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie - Nomeansno
5. Games of Rival Tribes - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Raining Blood - Slayer
7. Mock Abduction - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Angel of Death – Slayer
9. Young Girl's Dances - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2:

1. I Can't Stop Talking – Nomeansno
2. Jack in the Box 1 - Erik Satie / CBC National Orchestra
3. Disappear – Nomeansno
4. Jack in the Box 2 - Erik Satie / CBC National Orchestra
5. Blimey – Gwar
6. Jack in the Box 3 - Erik Satie / CBC National Orchestra
7. Altar of Sacrifice – Slayer
8. Sacrificial Dance - Igor Stravinsky / Chicago Symphony Orchestra