Lunchmeatophillia As Pinned-Up Chime Glistening

No.205, aired March 6, 2013. Another tribute to Late Lunch With Out To Lunch, recently taken Resonance FM in London due to listener complaints. Included readings and vocal-gestural interpretations of OTL’s Smooch Tentet Resolve (Veer, 2010).

Part 1

1. Tomatelo Con Soda – Ada Rave Cuarto
2. Wake Up – Nomeansno
3. Out To Lunch – Ada Rave Cuarto
4. The Hawk Killed The Punk – Nomeansno
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. Hat And Beard – Eric Dolphy
7. La Vendetta – King Cobb Steelie

Part 2

1. The Day Everything Became Nothing - Nomeansno
2. Lunchmeatophobia (Think! It Ain’t Illegal Yet!) - Funkadelic
3. Gazzelloni – Eric Dolphy
4. My American Partner – King Cobb Steelie
5. Dead Souls – Nomeansno
6. Art 3 – Jaworzyn/Wilkinson/Fell
7. Utopias Humanicas – Ada Rave Cuarto

Interweaving Morphic Resonances

No.204, aired February 20, 2013, featuring poetry from a collection called Polar Perambulations: Variations And Combinations Within A Four Course Meal by Regina’s Robert Betteridge. As a show of solidarity with Late Lunch With Out To Lunch, a radio show in London, U.K. that has been taken off the air due to complaints, I played the Late Lunch theme music (Make A Blues Noise Here by Marc Guillermont) while performing the opening page from OTL’s Smooch Tentet Resolve.

Part 1

1. The Old Git Song – Diary
2. Medicine Men – Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey
3. One Sin – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. Naval Aviation In Art – Frank Zappa
5. Blackout City Nights – Royal Red Brigade
6. Endless Burning Fire – Ana-Maria Avram
7. Lost Cause – Royal Red Brigade

Part 2

1. Biting The Hand – Kleins 96
2. Make A Blues Noise Here – Marc Guillermont
3. Rolling Home – Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
4. The Advocate – Tony Oxley & Derek Bailey
5. Trojan Whores – Kleins 96
6. Instant Events #1 – Ian Stonehouse & Sebastian Lexer
7. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic

Flexed Bowstrings & OOZE

No.203, aired February 13, 2013. Audiobook was Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Live readings were Out Of The Blue and Out You Come from Oort’s Cloud by John Wilkinson. Organization of materials was based on the letter O.

Part 1

1. Old Horse Whore – The Dinner Is Ruined Band
2. O Argaleios – George Koufogiannakis
3. Bobby Orr - The Dinner Is Ruined Band
4. Kaelin’s Mood – George Koufogiannakis
5. Douce Amnesie – Animal Slaves
6. Holwege For Solo Viola – Iancu Dumitrescu (comp.) / loan-Marius Lacraru (soloist)

Part 2

1. Work For Your Money – Howlin’ Wolf
2. Naval Aviation In Art – Frank Zappa
3. Yo Mo Oud – George Koufogiannakis
4. Behind Those Eyes – Diodes
5. Gnosis For Solo Doublebass – Iancu Dumitrescu (comp.) / Ion Ghita (soloist)
6. Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

The Plastic Duck Machine

No.202, aired February 6, 2013. Featured audiobook was Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, by Donovan Hohn, narrated by Christopher Evan Welch..

Part 1

1. Alligator Wine – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Snake Dance – Monster Magnet
4. String Quartet No.4, Op.37, Mvt.3 – Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet
5. I Wish You Would – Ugly Ducklings
6. Continent And Western – Fond Of Tigers

Part 2

1. Nothin’ – Ugly Ducklings
2. String Quartet No.4, Op.37, Mvt.4 – Arnold Schoenberg / New Vienna String Quartet
3. There’s Something Wrong With You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
4. Black Mastermind – Monster Magnet
5. Soheb – Fond Of Tigers
6. Rimb Nugget - Ugly Ducklings

Minute Men Blather Routine

No.201, aired January 30, 2013, with further readings from J.H. Prynne’s Poems. The 2003 poem “Biting The Air” was continued from episode 200, then two portions published in 1971 were read: “Night Square,” and “On Sanguine Fire” from the book Brass.

Part 1

1. Fuel’s For Fools – Emetics
2. POWMIA – Brutal Knights
3. Pounds of Squelch – Emetics
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Free For All – Art Blakey & Friends -- Biting The Air (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
6. Kontakte (Teil 2) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Biting The Air (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
7. Want Action – Kill Cheerleader
8. Kontakte  (Teil 2, con’t) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Biting The Air (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
9. Bad Habit – Kill Cheerleader

Part 2

1. Kontakte  (Teil 2, con’t) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Night Square – J.H. Prynne
2. Find Your Own Way Home – Kill Cheerleader
3. Kontakte II (Teil 2, con’t) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Night Square (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
4. One By One – Art Blakey & Friends -- On Sanguine Fire – J.H. Prynne
5. Gobot’s Giver – Emetics
6. Living By Yourself – Brutal Knights
7. Septui 2 – Emetics
8. Gypsey – Art Blakey -- On Sanguine Fire (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
9. Why The Beard – Brutal Knights

Whipping Toy Forms

No.200, aired January 23, 2013, with readings from J.H. Prynne’s 2003 poem Biting The Air.
 
The first half of the program was devoted to a musical thot experiment in which I played tracks from GWAR’s 1988 Hell-O alternating with 3 pieces from John Colrane’s 1959 Giant Steps.
 
The ear loves the unexpected, and is easy to fool. In marketing terms, Giant Steps is jazz, merely: society music, co-opted, recuperated, safe – & in the past that is how I have received it. Even for jazz musicians Giant Steps is considered an “exercise” – something to master & then move on from. And the hard-core habit can also be a great deadener, even the monstrous perversity of GWAR warms into a fuzzy bath if not lifted out of its sci-fi punk/metal niche market.
 
So I am mixing the two. Is this epicurian eclectisism, the aesthete requires variety in his consumption? The contrast brings out the distinct flavours? Yes, but more than that. The aural miscegenation spurs actual thot.
 
In Love with a Dead Dog is a depraved joke that nevertheless follows the conventions of a love song, invokes those cliches, laughs at them. At the climax, the love object dies, then the heavy metal riff returns & order is restored. This is illness. Then the drums at the beginning of the Coltrane quartet’s Countown dramatize the moment of illness. Coltrane’s Tenor sax appears and I can hear it as breakdown, madness. In the GWAR context I can hear the frantic energy of the players. It sounds insanely fast compared to what jazz should be - jazz on speed. Occasional conventional jazz runs embedded in the session sound parodic. This segues into GWAR's Slutman City, which, after the warm accoustic aura, sounds ugly and threatening. Something really awful is happening - another gruesome GWAR character arrives at a city of life without shame, & again, GWAR delivers on the violent promise of rock. But these sleezy riffs & perverse anthems would be nearly inaudible if the CD was played straight through. Coltrane’s Spiral comes on but the ear is still living in the slums of Slutman City - the jazz band is playing in a club, but the horror show is still going. The music is jazz, but it is describing, or accompanying, some abominable act in an aggressively detached way – is that possible? The band is telling a story about something very human and very touching. There is a musical argument here as well. The musical mind keeps wandering, then catches itself again. Hiddeous monsters are dancing in an elegant ballroom. Are they feasting on human flesh? Am I hearing this quartet’s underlying anger, or is it only my own fantasy? It is music for a TV show or movie. Quick-cutting, tons of action into a small space, a drama as memory-dream sequence. Then a slower GWAR track, War Toy, feels epic, like I have been listening for a hundred years. It describes a toy, but it sounds like the depraved narrator has a child slave. The track seems like a review of something, the toy or the GWAR album itself, or rather GWAR's stage show & mythos - “Let's all go drink and kill and fart ... Now sure it's fun but is it art?"
 
The above was written the weekend before my program, when I plugged in the GWAR disc, but thanks to my media player’s shuffle feature heard instead “Countdown” from Giant Steps, and was shocked. During the program, I read poetry by J.H. Prynne that added a hole nuther level of nasty to the mix, but I haven’t had time to make detailed notes, except that the song “War Toy” is introduced with the following words, read at the end of “Spiral” – “You didn’t know that oh really how extended even so familar / whipping toy forms as a habit too lapped across its place setting nroe sougth nor bought fancy never braved: infinity”
 
Part 1

1. Ein Stitcher – Emetics
2. Captain Crunch – GWAR
3. Cousin Mary – John Coltrane
4. I’m In Love (With A Dead Dog) – GWAR
5. Countownd – John Coltrane
6. Slutman City – GWAR
7. Spiral – John Coltrane
8. War Toy - GWAR
 
Part 2

1. Obawa The Collar Boy – Emetics
2. 10-30 Train – Ugly Ducklings
3. You’d Better Register – Static Eyesore
4. Creatures Of Habit – Contaminate
5. Lil’ Copulator – Emetics
6. This Means War – Contaminate
7. Pinch It – Static Eyesore
8. Freakin – Emetics
9. Just In Case You Wonder – Ugly Ducklings
10. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
11. Jinx The Larynx – Emetics
12. Hell Is Other People – Contaminate
13. I Need Your Love – Ugly Ducklings
14. Barry Bongwater – Contaminate
15. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Hardcore Jollies Utopica With Tencer Tentacles

No.199, aired January 16, 2013, with live performance of New York poet Michael Tencer’s latest verbal compositions & a few passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses on audiobook. Main accompanying event, musically speaking, was Luigi Nono’s La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura played simultaneously with 4 percussion pieces by Iannis Xenakis. Best episode ever (& I mean it this time!).

Part 1

1. Loose Heels – White Lung
2. Hardcore Jollies – Funkadelic
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Hand It To The Devil – Sailboats Are White
5. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, For Violin & 8 Magnetic Tapes – Luigi Nono -- Okho / Rebond B – Iannis Xenakis

Part 2

1. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, For Violin & 8 Magnetic Tapes (continued) – Luigi Nono -- Rebond A / Psappha – Iannis Xenakis
2. Who Says A Funk Band Can’t Play Rock? – Funkadelic
3. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT