Freedom Of Obsession

No.114, aired March 16, 2011. Second episode to feature the Focus On The Family dramatization of C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters.

Part 1

1. Freedom Of Obsession – Dog Eat Dogma
2. Beaten With Sledges – Buckethead
3. Tarabos – Soft Machine
4. The Man Who Never Was – Sheavy
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Freedom Of Obsession – Dog Eat Dogma (played 2nd time by mistake)
7. Snodland – Soft Machine
8. Penny Hitch – Soft Machine
9. Art Of The State – Dog Eat Dogma

Part 2

1. Imitation Of Christ – Sheavy
2. Nouvelle Axe – Ana Marie Avram / Hyperion Ensemble
3. Block – Soft Machine
4. Kaos Rex – Dog Eat Dogma

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

Outward Bound

No. 58, aired January 20, 2010

Featured text was the Classics Library audiobook edition of Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, originally published in 1851, narrated by Frank Muller. Chapters played are indicated below with their accompanying music.

This episode is titled after Eric Dolphy's 1960 Outward Bound album (from which the 2 Dolphy tracks were played).

Part 1

1. Everything Is Alive - Beef Terminal -- Ch.1 (Loomings)
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Who - Brian Jonestown Massacre
4. Les - Eric Dolphy -- Ch.1 (cont'd)
5. Stormy High - Black Mountain
6. the hylozoists - The Hylozoists -- Ch.3 (The Spouter-Inn)
7. Revenge Of The Viper Three - Sheavy

Part 2

1. Lion's Gate - Helios Creed -- Ch.9 (The Sermon)
2. All Around You - Brian Jonestown Massacre
3. Leave A Message - Neon Tetra -- Ch.9 (cont'd)
4. G.W. - Eric Dolphy -- Ch.9 (cont'd)
5. All The Love (instrumental) - Helios Creed -- Ch.9 (cont'd)

Forbidden Dimension

Episode #47, aired November 4, 2009. This was a sort of second Halloween episode featuring ghoulish garage-rock from Calgary's Forbidden Dimension and some coffin-&-grave themed poems by Emily Dickinson read to some early orchestral works by Anton Webern. The "J" numbers correspond to the numbering of Dickinson's poems in the Thomas H. Johnson edition.

Part 1
1. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 1 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J670.
2. Bloodshack - Forbidden Dimension
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 2 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J943
5. A Coffin Named Desire - Forbidden Dimension
6. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 3 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J280
7. Invisible Dimension - Forbidden Dimension -- J754
8. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 4 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J712 + J1046
9. Big Black Hearse - Forbidden Dimension
10. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 5 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J258
11. Don't Happy, Be Worry - Eugene Chadbourne

Part 2
1. Ochre Ringlet - Eugene Chadbourne
2. Standing At The Edge Of The World - Sheavy
3. Change Has Come (Albert Ayler) - Eugene Chadbourne -- J465
4. Moments of Silence - Sheavy -- J949
5. High Midnight - Forbidden Dimension
6. Sechs Stucke op. 6, 1 - Anton Webern / London Symphony Orchestra -- J721
7. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

The Rite of Fall

Naval Aviation in Audio celebrated the Autumnal Equinox by playing select passages from Robert Louis Stevenson's Victorian horror Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, invoking the transformation from mildness to monstrosity that characterizes Regina's weather this time of year. Aired September 23, 2009.

Part 1
1. reprise - Hylozoists
2. People of the Plague - Subhumans
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Spy Vs Spy - Sheavy
5. Voile (for 20 strings) - Iannis Xenakis / Ensemble Resonanz
6. Ain't No Right - Jane's Addiction
7. permeability - Hylozoists
8. Celebrity - Subhumans

Part 2
1. theironchef - Hylozoists
2. Stop - Jane's Addiction
3. Analogique A + B - Iannis Xenakis / Ensemble Resonanz
4. Hangman - Sheavy
5. Untitled (Track 11 of La Nouvelle Gauche) - Hylozoists
6. lejazzlibre - Hylozoists
7. Throwing Up Leaves - Lederhosen Lucil
8. Sailin' On - Bad Brains