Mayday! & The Return of the Esemplasm

No. 65, March 10, 2010. This episode featured the return of Frankfurter Ahnung (see episode no.6), a collection of true audio experimentalism curated by Ben Watson, host of Late Lunch With Out To Lunch on Resonance FM in London, UK. Avant-Garde music and spoken-word snippets from that disc were interspersed with Canadian Punk from the MAYDAY! All Canadian Oi! And Streetpunk Compilation. Also featured a live reading from Out To Lunch's book of poetry KRYATL.

Part 1

1. “A Right Cutter” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
2. Hostage Radio – Knucklehead
3. “I Didn’t Know It Segued That Way” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Watch Out – Derek Bailey
6. Drunken Skinhead – The Prowlers
7. Ian Howard – T.H.F. Drenching
8. “Esemplasticists?” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
9. Song Of Nymphs II0049 – Marjan Mozetich (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- KRYATL - Out To Lunch

Part 2

1. “Baggie Dogs” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
2. Persevere – Wednesday Night Heroes
3. Mouth Poem – Out To Lunch
4. “But If You Got Rid Of All The Space ...” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
5. A Day At The Mall – The Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra
6. No Justice – The Class Assassins
7. Song Of Nymphs IV – Marjan Mozetich (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)-- KRYATL - Out To Lunch
8. “Are You An Anarchist, Gamma?” – Frankfurter Ahnung Chorus
9. The Old Git Song – Diary
10. Sailing – Ripcordz

Sharks & Beaches

No. 64, aired March 3, 2010, the fourth episode to feature the audiobook presentation of Moby Dick (chapter numbers listed below, see also episode nos. 58, 59, 62)

Xenakis’s Rebonds B was played in full in Part 1 but was also used at various points as percussive backing to the text & other music.

Part 1

1. A Dark Chapter – Disembarkation
2. Hawaii – Huevos Rancheros
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Theme From Masterburner – Monster Magnet -- Ch.63 (The Crotch)
5. Mindless Aggression – Maow
6. Day’s Eye – Soft Machine -- Ch. 62 (Stubb Kills A Whale)
7. Rebonds B Pour “set” de percussions – Iannis Xenakis (composer) / Pedro Carneiro (percussion) -- Ch. 62 (cont’d)
8. D.I.S. – Soft Machine -- Ch. 62 (con’t)
9. Are U Ready – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Lemme Take You To The Beach – Frank Zappa
2. Beach Blanket Blackout - Huevos Rancheros -- Ch. 64 (Stubb’s Supper)
3. Into The Vortex – Helios Creed -- Ch. 64 (con’t)
4. King Of The Monsters - Man Or Astroman? -- Ch. 64 (con’t)
5. Friendly Love I – Sun Ra -- Ch. 64 (con’t)
6. Illumination – Gogol Bordello (dedicated to Aleks)
7. Sailing - Ripcordz

Pure As Arctic Snow

No. 63, aired February 24, 2010.

A very geological episode featuring an on-air reading from Christian Bok’s Crystallography, a book of ice so clean you can see yourself in it.

Part 1

1. Trapped Under Ice - Metallica
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. New Meteors & Pulsars – Iancu Dumitrescu / Hyperion Ensemble -- Geodes – Christian Bok
4. Pure As The Arctic Snow – GWAR
5. I (Fuck) Mountains – Pink Mountaintops

Part 2

1. Call Of The Triumphant – Thor
2. No Emotion – Hanson Brothers
3. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid – Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO -- (epigraph to Crystallography by M.C. Escher) / Krystallos / Katharsis / Kalokagathia / Crystals (Preliminary Survey) / The Hagiography of Snow: Preface / Krystalloneiros / Crystals / “Turbulent winds ...” / Crystals (Euclid & His Modern Rivals) – Christian Bok
4. Electric Jewels – April Wine

Bad Brains & Wild Rumours

No. 62, aired February 17, 2010.

This episode plunged further & deeper into the darkness that is Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (see also nos. 58 & 59).

Part 1

1. Hearst - King Cobb Steelie -- Ch.41 (Moby Dick)
2. I - Bad Brains
3. Dark Chi – Atomic Bitchwax
4. Son Of Heldenleben – Murray Schafer (composer) / Orch. Symphonique de Montreal -- Ch.41 (con’t)
5. I Against I – Bad Brains

Part 2

1. F.V.K. (Fearless Vampire Killers) – Bad Brains
2. East – Murray Schafer (composer) / National Arts Centre Orch. -- Ch.41 (con’t)
3. Big Takeover – Bad Brains
4. Destroyer – Atomic Bitchwax
5. La Vendetta – King Cobb Steelie -– Ch.52 (The Albatross)
6. Voyage Into Infinity – Bad Brains
7. In Memoriam Alberto Guerrero – Murray Schafer (composer) / Vancouver Symphony Orch. -- Ch.59 (The Squid)
8. Sailing - Ripcordz

Avian Cartography

No. 61, aired February 10, 2010.

This episode presented a bird's-eye view of the earth & an earth-eye gaze at the sky, featuring four tracks from the Mahavishnu Orchestra's 1973 album Birds of Fire, two from the Buttless Chaps' Cartography, five from a Mayday records punk compilation, Chris Cutler's Life On Earth, and a live reading of Charles Olson's poem Kingfishers.

Part 1

1. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters - Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. We Gotta Go - Borderguards
4. Cartography - Buttless Chaps -- Kingfishers - Charles Olson
5. Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
6. Behind Your Screen - The Class Assassins
7. The Flight Of The Bumblebee - Disembarkation
8. Zone Of Compass Unreliability - Tristan Psionic
9. One Last Chance - Knucklehead

Part 2

1. Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love - Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Don't Tread On Me - Wednesday Night Heros
3. Life On Earth - Chris Cutler / Hyperion Ensemble -- Kingfishers - Charles Olson
4. Miles Beyond - Mahavishnu Orchestra
5. Rise Above - Riot 99
6. Broken Transit Broken Soil - Buttless Chaps
7. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic

Airway To Heaven

A starry vault, a firmament dividing celestial waters, paradisiacal mind state, cloud city, New Jerusalem, City of God ... What's your conception of Heaven or the heavens? Can you get there by air? From 10pm to midnight on February 3, 2010 Naval Aviation In Audio tried, reading the poetry of Canadian Christopher Dewdney (Radiant Inventory) and Brit Keston Sutherland (Antifreeze) with Alexina Louie's From the Eastern Gate and other music. This episode included the entire Hairway to Steven album by the Butthole Surfers, and just to make sure things didn't get too serious, 3 blasphemous tracks from Frank Zappa's You Are What You Is. Second ever Double Episode.

Part 1

1. Ricky - Butthole Surfers
2. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Exit Plexit - Simply Saucer
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. John E. Smoke - Butthole Surfers
6. From The Eastern Gate 1 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Radiant Inventory / This My Emissary - Christopher Dewdney
7. Sun Ship - John Coltrane
8. I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas - Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Sol, Pt. 1 - Wooden Shjips -- Ten Past Nine - Keston Sutherland
2. From The Eastern Gate 4 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Fart Song - Butthole Surfers
4. Attaining - John Coltrane
5. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing - Frank Zappa
6. From The Eastern Gate 3 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Jettison Khaki - Christopher Dewdney

Part 3

1. From The Eastern Gate 6 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
2. Jimi - Butthole Surfers
3. Dumb All Over - Frank Zappa
4. From The Eastern Gate 5 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Winter Central - Christopher Dewdney
5. Mole Machine - Simply Saucer -- Among The Golden Sheaves - Keston Sutherland
6. Julio Iglesias - Butthole Surfers

Part 4

1. Rocky - Butthole Surfers
2. Amen - John Coltrane
3. From The Eastern Gate 7 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Heaven - Christopher Dewdney
4. Backass - Butthole Surfers
5. Heavenly Bank Account
6. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
7. Sailing - Ripcordz

Conquistador

No. 59, aired 10pm - midnight, January 27, 2010. First ever Double Episode!

And fittingly, this 2-hour epic episode featured more chapters from Herman Melville's epic novel Moby Dick (see #58), with each of the four 30-minute segments featuring at least one epic-length musical track.

Part 1

1. M10 - Derek Bailey -- Ch.14 (Nantucket)
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
4. Because Because Because - Escapade -- Ch.24 (The Advocate), Ch.19 (The Prophet)

Part 2

1. Deadly Sinners - 3 Inches of Blood
2. Rasas I - Norma Beecroft -- Ch.35 (The Mast-Head)
3. Telephone Song - Tim Postgate -- Ch.35 (con't)
4. M1 - Derek Bailey -- Ch.35 (con't)
5. Two Went To Sleep - Norma Beecroft

Part 3

1. Time We Left This World Today - Hawkwind -- Ch.37 (Sunset)
2. Conquistador - Cecil Taylor -- Ch.36 (The Quarter Deck)
3. Revenge Is A Vulture - 3 Inches of Blood

Part 4

1. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic -- Ch.48 (The First Lowering)
2. Pathways to Unknown Worlds - Sun Ra -- Ch.48 (con't)
3. Filthy Habits - Frank Zappa -- Ch.48 (con't)
4. M11 - Derek Bailey
5. Destroy The Orcs - 3 Inches of Blood