Electricity

This electric-charged episode Aired March 18, 2009, featuring music from AC/DC's High Voltage, April Wine's Electric Jewels, 2 pieces of electronic music from Frank Zappa & the Mothers' We're Only In It For the Money, Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson, & electric guitar rock by Vancouver's The Northwest Company & Long Time Comin'. Passages were read from Tom McNichol's AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War & from David Bodanis' Electric Universe. The chapter from McNichol's book entitled Killing an Elephant provided the perfect textual accompaniment to the cathartic shocks of Stefan Jaworzyn's electric guitar with the painful wail of Alan Wilkinson's baritone sax.

Part 1
1. Electricity - Captain Beefheart
2. Live Wire - AC/DC
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Part of the Season - Long Time Comin'
5. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
6. Electric Jewels - April Wine
7. Are You Hung Up? - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
8. Paper Rose - Long Time Comin'

Part 2
1. Eight Hours - The Northwest Company
2. David Murray dons a cunning Alan Wilkinson Disguise and blags his way onto a bill at the Termite club - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
3. Hard to Cry - The Northwest Company
4. The Band Has Just Begun - April Wine
5. High Voltage - AC/DC
6. Electricity - Captain Beefheart
7. Just Like That - April Wine

De Re Metallica

Episode 17 concerned metal. Georgius Agricola's founding work of metallurgy, De Re Metallica (on the Nature of Metals) was read with various keyboard works by J.S. Bach & alongside metal bands Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden & Pericardium, whose Anthems of Anger pummeled my eardrums & incited me to frenzied dancing in Regina's live music clubs in the late 1990s.

Part 1
1. The Art of Fugue - Johann Sebastian Bach / Christopher Hogwood & Chrisophe Rousset (harpsichords)
2. Corrupted - Pericardium
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. The Wizard - Black Sabbath
5. I Meditation - Pericardium
6. Deceiver - Judas Priest
7. The Opportunist - Pericardium
8. Inventio IV - Johann Sebastian Bach / Bernard Lagace (organ)
9. Judas Rising - Judas Priest
10. II Meditation - Pericardium
11. The Ides of March - Iron Maiden

Part 2
1. Fughetta super Wir glauben all an einen - Johann Sebastian Bach / Bernard Lagace (organ)
2. Wrathchild - Iron Maiden
3. Lashed Out and Gashed - Pericardium
4. Sinfonia XV - Johann Sebastian Bach / Bernard Lagace (organ)
5. Bodies - Pericardium
6. III Meditation - Pericardium
7. The Dead Speak From Beyon - Pericardium
8. Ram it Down - Judas Priest
9. The Art of Fugue - Johann Sebastian Bach / Christopher Hogwood & Chrisophe Rousset (harpsichords)
10. Eat Steal - GWAR
11. The Metal - Tenacious D

Martian Acid

This sixteenth episode featured the audiobook version of H.G. Wells' sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds, especially a corrosive chapter in which the entire arsenal of human weaponry is dissolved in liquid mountains of green Martian acid. This text was played over & alongside music from The Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paradaiso U.F.O.'s Have You Seen The Other Side Of The Sky?, as well as Motocaster's Acid Rock & various artists released by Mint Records.

Part 1

1. Interplanetary Love - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
2. Fire in the Ocean - The Organ
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Interview - Nardwuar vs. Timothy Leary
5. The Train - Motocaster
6. Cold Hands/Chapped Lips - Hot Panda
7. Attack from Planet Hattifatteners - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
8. I'll Drive - Motocaster

Part 2

1. Camino Real - The Ramblin' Ambassadors
2. Oblivion - Motocaster
3. I Wanna Be Your Bicycle Saddle - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
4. Making Gestures - The Pack A.D.
5. Asimo's Naked Breakfast - Rice and Shrine - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
6. Anime Eyes - The Awkward Stage

Art of War

Aired February 25, 2009. Featured chapters from The Art of War (on audiobook) by Sun Tzu, played with King Cobb Steelie and the Leeds-based improvizing trio of Hession/Wilkinson/Fell.

Part 1

1. My American Partner - King Cobb Steelie
2. War - DOA
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. 12 Minutes for George - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
5. International Master - King Cobb Steelie
6. Horror of Yig - GWAR

Part 2

1. Vlad the Impaler - GWAR
2. The Alphabet Poised Like Twenty-six Frozen Ducklings - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
3. Sound Baffle - King Cobb Steelie
4. World War 3 - DOA
5. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
6. Deadbeat - King Cobb Steelie
7. Maggots - GWAR
8. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

This Cleaving & this Burning ...

Episode 14 aired February 18, 2009, and featured the poetry of Hart Crane read live in the CJTR studio with Arnold Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16 (1949 Revision), as well as tracks from John Coltrane's Love Supreme, The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines, gypsy punks Gogol Bordello, and The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir.

Part 1

1. Sweet Tooth - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Acknowledgment - John Coltrane
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Life is Long - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Summer Morning by a Lake - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra -- Legend - Hart Crane, Repose of Rivers - Hart Crane
6. Burnin' Inside - King Khan & the Shrines
7. Peripetia - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra
8. Taking it Out - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Part 2

1. Torture - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Resolution - John Coltrane
3. Illumination - Gogol Bordello
4. The Obligatory Recitative - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra -- Possessions - Hart Crane
5. Outta Harm's Way - King Khan & the Shrines
6. Premonitions - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra
7. Mishto! - Gogol Bordello

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

Microorganisms & Explosions

Usually, on this show I have mixed various musical works with spoken or recorded texts. In this episode, that was done for me, because I featured The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra, from London, England, and their dadaist music & spoken word masterpiece, A Life in a Day of a Microorganism. Also featured were some tracks from Canadian Blast & the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Part 1

1. Introduction – The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
2. Changed – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Anarchavid – Lederhosen
5. A Life in a Day of a Microorganism (a) Prelude - the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
6. Fairweather – Shikasta
7. A Life in a Day of a Microorganism - (b) Morning - the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
8. No Feelings – Cheerleader 666


Part 2

1. '78 Style - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 3) – Alexina Louie; Erica Goodman on harp
3. Water Main - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 1) – Alexina Louie; Erica Goodman on harp
5. Biological - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
6. A Life in a Day of a Microorganism - (c) Afternoon and Afterlife - the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
7. Geneve – Raking Bombs
8. Jacques and Madeleine – Run Chico Run
9. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 2) – Alexina Louie; Erica Goodman on harp
10. Sailin' On – Bad Brains