Saturday, September 19, 2009

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

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Lust in Space

Episode 39 took Naval Aviation in Audio way beyond Uranus & out into the Milky Way, featuring several tracks from Lust in Space, the brand spanking new CD of our Galactic Overlords, GWAR!!! Also included some portions from William Shatner's Star Trek audiobook Captain's Glory, read by Shatner himself, recounting (in 3rd-person!) the adventures of Captain Kirk. Naturally, the show played out with Kirk, the Enterprise & all its crew being horribly slaughtered by GWAR in a comical orgy of destruction.

Part 1
1. Lust in Space - GWAR
2. Naval Aviation in Audio? - Frank Zappa
3. robot love serenade - Guerrilla Funk Monster
4. We'll Wait For You - Sun Ra
5. Space - Lederhosen Lucil
6. Let Us Slay - GWAR
7. The Pezzi Brevi 1 - Norma Beecroft
8. Robot Dub Jam - Guerrilla Funk Monster
9. The Pezzi Brevi 2 - Norma Beecroft
10. The Uberklaw - GWAR

Part 2
1. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic
2. The Pezzi Brevi 3 - Norma Beecroft
3. Damnation Under God - GWAR
4. Strange Worlds - Sun Ra
5. Lords and Masters - GWAR
6. The Perfect Man - Sun Ra -- Finnegans Wake / James Joyce (on-air reading from pgs.219-20)

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Evil

Aired August 26, 2009, featuring Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung, a monodrama (in German) about a woman wandering in a forest at night searching for her lover. To this nightmarish setting was added Howlin' Wolf (for a fairy-tale aspect), as well as several monstrous heavy metal anthems by The Muscle Bitches, Monster Magnet, and Anvil. Three different versions of the Willie Dixon-penned blues classic Evil were heard, as performed by Howlin Wolf, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, and Monster Magnet.

Part 1
1. Sonata Tragica - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 2 - Howlin Wolf
2. I'm the Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
3. Erwartung, Sc.III - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. Cyclops Revolution - Monster Magnet
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Evil - Howlin' Wolf
7. Mothra - Anvil
8. Erwartung, Sc.I - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
9. Peek Through the Pines - Muscle Bitches -- The Wolf Talks 3 - Howlin' Wolf

Part 2
1. Dogs - Blah Blah 666 -- The Wolf Talks 1 - Howlin' Wolf
2. Evil - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
3. Erwartung, Sc.II - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
4. 666 - Anvil
5. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.1 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
6. Balls To the Wall - Muscle Bithches (originally performed by Accept)
7. Erwartung, Sc.IV, pt.3 - Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Ensemble InterContemporain
8. Evil - Monster Magnet
9. Cielito Lindo - Blah Blah 666
10. Wolf At Your Door - Howlin' Wolf

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Monster Spawned

This is the second episode to feature the visionary poetry of Regina's Robert Betteridge. #36, aired August 19, 2009.

Part 1
1. Medicine Men - Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey -- Mary Shepherd Letter - Robert Betteridge
2. Ultimate - Gogol Bordello
3. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 1 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
4. Stranger Than Kindness - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
6. Used To Be In Love - Dayglo Abortions
7. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 2 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano) -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max - Robert Betteridge
8. Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney! - Charles Mingus -- Micro Mini Duels Macro Max (continued)
9. Haram in Tuscany [Taranta] - Gogol Bordello

Part 2
1. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 3 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
2. Religious Bumfucks - Dayglo Abortions
3. Playroom - Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey -- YET - Robert Betteridge
4. Supertheory of Supereverything - Gogol Bordello
5. Flabby Preludes (for a dog) 4 - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano) -- Monster Spawned - Robert Betteridge
6. (Soul Fusion) Freewomen and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries - Charles Mingus
7. San Bernardo (1913) - Erik Satie (composer) / Eve Egoyan (piano)
8. I'm My Own God - Dayglo Abortions

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Spokes for the Wheel of Torment

Aired August 12, 2009, featuring a live reading of Chapter 1 of the Book of Ezekiel plus the Commuters AudioBible recording of Chapters 34, 35, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48 & 49 of The Book of Isaiah.

Part 1
1. Descent of the Damned - Buckethead
2. Circle, with Tangents Pt.2 - John Beckwith
3. She Danced for Gordie Howe - Tim Postgate
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Spokes for the Wheels of Torment - Buckethead
6. Circle, with Tangents Pt.4 - John Beckwith
7. Terminator - Tim Postgate
8. Parannoyed - Dog Eat Dogma
9. Arc of the Pendulum - Buckethead

Part 2
1. Circle, with Tangents Pt.3 - John Beckwith
2. Haven of Black Tar Pitch - Buckethead
3. The Apes of Wrath - GWAR
4. Circle, with Tangents Pt.1 - John Beckwith
5. Animal Farm - Dog Eat Dogma
6. Hoster City - Tim Postgate
7. The Escape Wheel - Buckethead
8. The Wheel - GWAR

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Out of the Storm & Into the Drains

Episode 34, Aired August 5, 2009. Featured a live reading of Issue 11 of Infiltration, "the zine about going places you're not supposed to go", an issue devoted to urban explorations of Storm Drains.

Part 1
1. Crackin' Up - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Great Day - Storm Inc.
4. Brainless Wonder - Nomeansno
5. I Wanna Be a Girl - King Khan & the Shrines
6. Support-A-Man - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
7. The Tower - Nomeansno
8. Rainstorms In My Knees - Agnostic Moutain Gospel Choir
9. In From the Storm - Jimi Hendrix

Part 2
1. Storm - Godspeed You! Black Emperor -- Infiltration Issue 11: Storm Drains (My First Eight Drains - Ninjalicious -- The Holy Grail of Minneapolis Draining - Peter M. Sand)
2. Water Main - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3. End of the World - Nomeansno