Round Things Are Boring

No.119, aired April 20, 2011, featuring the entirety of the Lumpy Gravy album, composed by Frank Zappa & performed by Zappa & the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra in 1967.

Part 1

1. Prayor to Pierrot (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
2. Ella Guru – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Lumpy Gravy, Part 1 – Frank Zappa
5. I Can Tell – Ugly Ducklings
6. Loot (from Pierrot Lunaire) – Arnold Schoenberg
7. She Danced For Gordie Howe – Tim Postgate
8. Black Summer – Youthinasia

Part 2

1. Dali’s Car – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. Lumpy Gravy, Part 2 – Frank Zappa
3. My Human Gets Me Blues – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
4. Terminator – Tim Postgate
5. Midnight Show – The Horribles
6. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

1967! Drums Of Passion

No.84, aired August 18, 2010, featuring avant-garde, jazz & rock music from 1967, plus the 22-minute Drums Of Passion by Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson, an incredible exploration of the percussive capabilities of the electric guitar & baritone sax. Also continued with Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Rimb Nugget – Ugly Ducklings
2. 1967 – Dayglo Abortions
3. Song 1 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
4. Eyes – The Collectors
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Leo – John Coltrane
7. Nothin’ – Ugly Ducklings
8. Song 2 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
9. Song 3 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen
10. Song 4 (from Stimmung, for Soloists & 6 Microphones, No.24) – Karlheinz Stockhausen

Part 2

1. Abba Zaba – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
2. Drums Of Passion - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
3. Listen To Me – One Way Street

All OUT

No.83, aired August 11, 2010.

Featuring exclusively tracks with the word “Out” in the title, except the opening song, which was supposed to be The Hanson Brothers’ Duke It Out, but my notes were messed up so that song had to wait until the end.

Also featured a live reading of KRYATL, a strange but potent brew of words by one Out To Lunch.

Part 1

1. It’s A Secret – Hanson Brothers
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Jerk It Out – Caesars
4. Get Out Of My Life – D.O.A.
5. I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore – Ugly Ducklings
6. Extension Out – Sun Ra –- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
7. Outta Harm`s Way – King Khan & The Shrines
8. Lashed Out And Gashed – Pericardium
9. Sort It Out – Caesars

Part 2

1. Check It Out Dude, Get Ready, Cuz We're Rock 'N' Roll Rebels Cruisin' for Chicks in Our Metal Machine, Baby, All Night Long, Alright, Oh Yeah! (A Rock Anthem) Dude. (We Really Know How to Rock.) – Lungbutter
2. Demons Out! – Art Brut
3. Out To Lunch – Eric Dolphy -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
4. (I`m Gonna) Kick You Out – Caesars
5. Looking Outward – Sun Ra -- KRYATL – Out To Lunch
6. Duke It Out – Hanson Brothers
7. Noise [#] [Outtake] – Diodes

Billy the Kid

Featured Michael Ondaatje's Collected Works of Billy the Kid, a documentary poetic recreation of the Billy the Kid mythology, and bpNichol's The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, a fanciful phallic destruction of the myth. These texts were read side-by-side, for the most part accompanied by John Zorn's The Big Gundown, featuring his renditions of Ennio Morricone's movie themes.

Part 1
1. Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America) - John Zorn
2. Take the "A" Train - Duke Ellington & His World Famous Orchestra
3. Three Steps Backward - New Town Animals
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Letter from an Occupant - The New Pornographers
6. Giu Ba Festa (Duck You Sucker!) - John Zorn
7. Two-By-Four-And-A-Half - Thee Skabling
8. 125th Street Prophet - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
9. Just in Case You Wonder - The Ugly Ducklings

Part 2
1. Traffic Jam - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
2. Gaslight - The Ugly Ducklings
3. Peur Sur Ba Ville - John Zorn
4. I Wish You Would - The Ugly Ducklings
5. Swingin' At the Met - Les Brown & His Band of Renown
6. Once Upon a Time In the West - John Zorn
7. Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
8. My Little Red Book - The Ugly Ducklings