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

Utilitarian Donuts (part 1)

No.79, the first of two episodes to feature on-air readings from Issue no.1 of Utilitarian Donuts, Regina’s newest magazine of radical poetry & politics. For information on how to order a copy, go to http://utilitariandonuts.com/.

Part 1

1. All I Want Is Everything – Lungbutter
2. Sound Baffle – King Cobb Steelie -- No Mercy – Donna Burks
3. Markers - Lungbutter
4. A Phone Booth In The Middle Of Nowhere – Sheavy
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Ghetto Child – James Blood Ulmer
7. Farid – Grant Greene -- The Anti-Semantic - Paul Burnside / The Heavy Weight – W.B. Yonder / Ectopic? – Paul Friesen

Part 2

1. M10 – Derek Bailey -- Mary Shepard Letter (to Robert Betteridge)
2. Dominion of Deceipt – 3 Inches Of Blood
3. Hat And Beard – Eric Dolphy -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max – Robert Betteridge
4. Satisfy (Story Of My Life) – James Blood Ulmer
5. The Real Thing – Tim Postgage –- Travelodge Hotel – W.B. Yonder / Litany Of Complaints – Paul Burnside
6. Jackhammer – Anvil

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

Humpty Dumpty Contrafacta

No. 68, aired March 31, 2010 – an Easter special.

Featured live readings of poetry from Reginan Hendrik Markus’s Phenomena No Hindrance. Copies are available for purchase in the Sask Lit. Section at Book & Briar Patch.

Also featured 4 recuperated “Nursery Hymns” of W.B. Yonder, a.k.a. Regina’s Patrick Johnson. Free downloads plus notes on his contrafactal process and other delights can be found at: http://www.wbyonder.citymax.com/firstpage.html

Part 1

1. Resolution – Mahavishnu Orchestra –- The Messianic Heart – Hendrik Markus
2. Humpty Dumpty / Arnsberg – Patrick Johnson
3. Crack In The Egg – GWAR
4. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Tori – Not Goin’ To Vegas
6. The Treeman – Buckethead -- Axis Mundi – Hendrik Markus
7. Jack And Jill / Maryton - Patrick Johnson
8. Free Satpal Ram – Asian Dub Foundation
9. From the Eastern Gate 2 – Alexina Louie (comp.) / Erica Goodman (harp)
10. Gor-Gor – GWAR

Part 2

1. Chocolate Jesus – Tom Waits
2. Pylegathon – Buckethead
3. Three Blind Mice / Crusader’s Hymn – Patrick Johnson
4. Sanctuary – Mahavishnu Orchestra -- Easter Sunday, 1983 (A Buddhist Talks To God) - Hendrik Markus
5. Traveling Morgue – Buckethead
6. Alphabet Song / Dix – Patrick Johnson
7. Asscrack Bathmat – Muscle Bitches
8. Watermelon In Easter Hay – Frank Zappa
9. Saved – Amour Fou
10. Sailing - Ripcordz