Young Bear, Young Spirit

No.166, aired April 18, 2012, featuring two of the drum bands who played at the 34th annual Spring Celebration Pow Wow at Regina’s Brandt Center.

Part 1

1. Necklace Breaker – Young Bear
2. Ley de Vida – Cerebros Exprimodos
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Severe – Young Bear
5. Roots Bloody Roots - Sepultura
6. Stan The Man – Young Bear
7. Bad Luck Blues – Guitar Slim
8. YB Style – Young Bear
9. Choke – Sepultura
10. Young Bear Family – Young Bear

Part 2

1. Contest – Young Spirit
2. Kairos – Sepultura
3. Intertribal – Young Spirit
4. Trouble Don’t Last – Guitar Slim
5. Intertribal – Young Spirit
6. Romper la Red – Cerebros Exprimodos
7. Jingle Side-Step
8. Relentless – Sepultura
9. Contest – Young Spirit
10. Yukatan – Sun Ra

Sepultura & Metamorphoses

No.165, aired April 11, 2012. Primarily a primer for the Sepultura concert at the Exchange. Included some more passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses on audiobook.

Part 1

1. CAKE! – A Band
2. Ratamahatta – Sepultura
3. 4 Songs For Voice & Piano, op.12, no.1 – Anton Webern
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Skulls In The Closet – Les Georges Leningrad
6. Arise – Sepultura
7. 4 Songs For Voice & Piano, op.12, no.2 – Anton Webern
8. Scissorhands - Les Georges Leningrad
9. 4 Songs For Voice & Piano, op.12, no.3 – Anton Webern
10. Septicschizo – Sepultura
11. 4 Songs For Voice & Piano, op.12, no.4 – Anton Webern
12. Deathboy – Kill Cheerleader

Part 2

1. RefuseResist – Sepultura
2. Fast – John Weinsweig
3. Attitude – Sepultura
4. They Think They’re Packing Up, But They’re Not – A Band
5. Escape To The Void – Sepultura

Apprehension Of The Unfolding

No.164, aired March 28, 2012.

This episode had readings of the “Time and History” chapter of Guy Debord’s Society of The Spectacle alongside passages from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine audiobook.

The key to interpreting Wells was found in Debord’s 125th thesis: “Man’s appropriation of his own nature is at the same time the apprehension of the unfolding of the universe.”

In The Time Machine, the universe unfolds humanity into two different species, one permanently childish, naive, indolent & sensual, and the second nocturnal, calculating, pragmatic & predatory. No doubt this text was an admirable nod to Darwinism when first published in the 1890s, but with the help of Debord’s Thesis no.125, the real meaning of Wells’ two-species humanity becomes plain. Wells has apprehended a two-fold nature in his own humanity, a passive consumer on the one hand and a joyless labourer on the other. He unfolds his futuristic world according to this bipolar vision – the light of enlightenment apart from the darkness of industry.

And in case it needs to be said, the class system in The Time Machine has little or no relation to existing class relations in late capitalist society, it more resembles the twilight of the aristocracy, when the kings & queens & dukes & knights became increasingly like helpless, caged animals. In the modern world, division of labour is the determinate factor in class relations. Labour, productivity is the most basic human quality, therefore Wells’ passive pastoral species is not human at all but a breed of post-human cattle. And the meaning of the Sex Pistols' “God save the Queen / She ain’t no human being” was thus revealed.

Featured album was Ornette Coleman’s The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Part 1

1. Organic Space – Guerilla Funk Monster
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Fuera de Control – Cerebros Exprimidos
4. Eventually – Ornette Coleman
5. puddle pants / Savages – Guerilla Funk Monster
6. Lonely Woman – Ornette Coleman
7. interligeridoo / How Long ‘Til We Get There – Guerilla Funk Monster

Part 2

1. No Sabes Que Existo – Cerebros Exprimidos
2. Bent Time – Burro
3. Wake Today – Guerilla Funk Monster
4. Chronology – Ornette Coleman
5. Introduce The Metric System In Time – The Hives
6. March Of The Crabs – Anvil

The Executioner’s Rite Of Spring

No.163, aired March 21, 2012, the annual “Rite Of Spring” Episode, where an innocent audiobook is sacrificed to the punishing rhythms of Stravinsky’s violent modernist ballet. This year’s sacrificial victim “The Four Disciplines Of Execution,” a corporate manifesto by Steven R. Covey and Chris McChesney, was rudely interruped with songs by The Subhumans, Capleton, and some tracks from Voivod’s recently uncovered early masterpiece, To The Death ’84.

Part 1

1. Stop And Go – Emetics
2. Young Girl’s Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
3. Bursting Out – Voivod
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Mock Abduction – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Danger Zone – Capleton
7. Round Dances – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Death To The Sickoids – Subhumans
9. Games Of Rival Tribes / Wise Elder’s Procession – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
10. Live For Violence – Voivod
11. Dance Of The Earth – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Part 2

1. Dance Of The Earth / Mystic Circles – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2. Apt Urbane – Emetics
3. The More Them Try – Capleton
4. Glorification / Summoning The Ancients – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5. No Productivity – Subhumans
6. Ancients’ Ritual – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Condemned To The Gallows – Voivod
8. Sacrificial Dance – Igor Stravinsky (comp.) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
9. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason - Subhumans

Our Proclivities As Cosmo-biologico-social Necessities

No.162, March 14, 2010, in which Naval Aviation In Audio declares its solidarity with the Association Of Musical Marxists and reads their Manifesto on air with Iancu Dumitrescu’s Galaxy, and reads the first 14 theses from Guy Debord’s Society Of The Spectacle.

Part 1

1. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet
2. Free Love – Dog Eat Dog
3. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
4. Anarchavid – Lederhosen Lucil
5. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
6. New World Order – Dog Eat Dog
7. Galaxy – Iancu Dumitrescu
8. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Geneve – Raking Bombs
2. No Feelings – Cheerleader 666
3. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
4. Situation – Tangiers
5. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
6. Fairweather – Shikaska
7. Inner Constellation – Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet (con’t)
8. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT

Rent Me A Gap In The Earth

No.161, aired March 7, 2012. Played the entire 1989 landmark of west coast punk, Last Scream Of The Missing Neighbours by Jello Biafra & D.O.A. Featured texts were further readings from Sean Bonney’s Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud, and more passages from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine on audiobook. While Bonney and Last Scream have a direct political affinity, The Time Machine interacted with both texts at the levels of concept and image.

Part 1

1. That’s Progress – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
2. Tchorb - Rake
3. Attack Of The Peacekeepers – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
4. Functions & Relations – King Cobb Steelie
5. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
6. Skree – Rake

Part 2

1. Power Is Boring – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Beak – Rake
4. Full Metal Jackoff – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.
5. Elan For Orchestra – Linda Bouchard
6. I Wish I Was In El Salvador – Jello Biafra & D.O.A.

Outside His Circled Limpid World

No.160, aired February 29, 2012 – a double (2-hour episode).

This episode contrasted two texts – a live reading of Sean Bonney’s Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud, and an audiobook of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Wells envisions a class-bassed society polarized to the point of total segregation, as observed from the top down by Wells’ detached, alien narrator. Bonney registers the effects of class society on subjectivity, the tortured imagination of participants in the struggle at street level, in a whirl of sensation – there is no privileged place to look down from.

Part 1

1. The Fifty Minute Hour – Hylozoists
2. Ghosts Of Griffintown – Ripcordz
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Corrupted – Pericardium
5. Kuilenn – Iannis Xenakis
6. 25th Century Quaker – Captain Beefheart

Part 2

1. Lunchmeatophobia – Funkadelic
2. Tear Ya Down – Motorhead
3. Elementary Particles – Hylozoists
4. Gimme That Harp, Boy – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. Phlegra – Iannis Xenakis

Part 3

1. Everything Pisses Me Off – Sarcastic Mannequins
2. Smiley Smiley – Hylozoists
3. The Opportunist – Pericardium
4. Ittidra – Iannis Xenakis
5. Kandy Korn – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
6. No Class – Motorhead

Part 4

1. Lashed Out And Gashed - Pericardium
2. Maggot Brain – Funkadelic
3. Charlie Don’t Surf – Sarcastic Mannequins
4. Kai – Iannis Xenakis
5. Punk Nation – Ripcordz
6. Strait Is The Gate – Hylozoists
7. Moanin At Midnight – Howlin Wolf