RADIOTHON 2013

No.231, aired October 2, 2013. Includes readings and vocal-gestural interpretations of Out To Lunch’s Smooch Tentet Resolve (Veer, 2010). I only realized during the live playing of this episode back that aside from my Radiothon plugs, the 2nd half of the program, on the topic of how great it is to be alive, contains two exhortations to the telephone - Storm Large advises would-be television talk-show participants to call 1-800-LUCIFER; later, the Mothers of Invention provide 2 phone numbers to their own audience of “consenting adults.” 

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Part 1

1. Looks Like An Angel – John Korsrud (with Joe Keithly on vocal)
2. 60 Revolutions – Gogol Bordello
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Fifty-Fifty – Frank Zappa
5. Sound Baffle – King Cobb Steelie -- Smooch Tentet Resolve – Out To Lunch
6. Underdog World Strike – Gogol Bordello
7. Ghetto Booty – FPG

Part 2

1. Running Meredith – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
2. Great Day – Storm Inc.
3. You Spin Me Round ’86 - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet -- Smooch Tentet Resolve – Out To Lunch
4. Call Any Vegetable – The Mothers Of Invention
5. The Gods Were Fucking – Swelter
6. Aunt Invasion - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet -- Smooch Tentet Resolve – Out To Lunch
7. It’s So Fuck’n Great To Be Alive – Jungle
8. Never Wanna Be Young Again – Gogol Bordello

Bleed The Dying Elephant

No.230, aired September 25, 2013. Titled after Threat From Outer Space CD used. Audiobook was Stephen Lewis’s – Race Against Time, about how macroeconomic policy (IMF, World Bank, free trade, structural adjustments, etc.) creates poverty in Africa & exacerbates the AIDS pandemic.

Part 1

1. Folk Songs: Little Nightingale – Luciano Berio (composer) / Jard van Nes – mezzo-soprano
2. Boy After Boy – Muscle Bitches
3. Folk Songs: Dance - Luciano Berio (composer) / Jard van Nes – mezzo-soprano
4. Elephant – Muscle Bitches
5. Folk Songs: The Ideal Woman – Luciano Berio (composer) / Jard van Nes – mezzo-soprano
6. Boy After Boy II – Muscle Bitches
7. Folk Songs: May The Lord Send Fine Weather – Luciano Berio (composer) / Jard van Nes – mezzo-soprano
8. Hellephant – Muscle Bitches
9. Duetti for 2 violins – Luciano Berio
10. Worldwide – Threat From Outer space
11. Duetti for 2 violins – Luciano Berio
12. Elephant Bell – Monster Magnet
13. Duetti for 2 violins – Luciano Berio
14. Space Out – Threat From Outer space

Part 2

1. Cogito, Trompe l’Oeil – Iancu Dumitrescu
2. Rip Apart – Threat From Outer space
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Evil – Monster Magnet

Mulrooney’s Last Stand

No.229, aired September 11, 2013. Audiobook was the Commuters Library edition of (The Best Of) Have Gun Will Travel, Show 2: No Visitors. This was a radio program that originally aired in 1957. The audiobook preserves the original radio advertisements, several of which were featured here.

Part 1

1. Have Gun Will Travel theme music
2. Horse Latitudes North - Grountruther
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. While Heaven Fell – IKS
5. Cheyanne – Bo Diddley
6. Making Gestures – The Pack A.D.
7. Equator – Groundtruther
8. Don’t Have To – The Pack A.D.

Part 2

1. Stormy High – Black Mountain
2. Blackout – The Pack A.D.
3. Hitchcock – IKS
4. Evil Ways – Black Mountain
5. Hitchcock (continued) – IKS
6. Ride On Josephine – Bo Diddley
7. Hitchcock (continued) – IKS
8. Horse Latitudes South – Grountruther
9. Sailing - Ripcordz

How To Spit It Out Bright Steed & Become Dead Skunk Check

No.228, aired September 4, 2013. Audiobook was Don Gobor’s How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends. Included readings of four poems by Duncan Hose from Forward Slash (“/”) – a journal of contemporary Canadian & Australian poetry published by Black Rider Press & edited by Matthew Hall & Jeremy Balius.

Part 1

1. Sixteen Tons – Bo Diddley
2. Sinfonia IV – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
3. Ass Clamp Anthem – FPG
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Alright – FPG
6. Sinfonia I – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- Golden Leaflets Of Shoji – Duncan Hose
7. Pedestrian – Spiral Beach
8. Cadillac – Bo Diddley
9. Sinfonia V – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- Faire Du Skeptique – Duncan Hose

Part 2

1. Shake Yah Dam Head - FPG
2. Casual – Spiral Beach
3. Sinfonia III – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- Liquor' Not Like That – Duncan Hose
4. Summertime – Booker T Jones & The MGs
5. Dilly – FPG
6. Sinfonia II – Luciano Berio (comp.) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- The Paul Revere Girls – Duncan Hose
7. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Wound Response

No.227, aired August 28, 2013, with a complete reading of JH Prynne’s Wound Response.

Part 1

1. North Pole – Groundtruther -- Treatment In The Field – JH Prynne
2. War – D.O.A.
3. Divertissement For String Quartet – Pierre Mercure -- The Blade Given Back – JH Prynne
4. War Party – GWAR
5. Suliman – Infected Mushroom -- Cool As A Mountain Stream / Thanks For The Memory / Pigment Depot – JH Prynne
6. I Hate You – D.O.A.
7. Gag Odor – Forbidden Dimension
8. You Can’t Kill Terror – GWAR

Part 2

1. Fight War Not Wars / Women – Crass
2. Concerto For Piano & Orchestra – Michael Conway Baker -- Of Movement Toward A Natural Place – JH Prynne
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Bring Back The Bomb – GWAR
5. Elan For Orchestra – Linda Bouchard -- Landing Area / Chromatin / Melamin / An Evening Walk – JH Prynne
6. Class War – D.O.A.
7. Arctic Circle – Groundtruther -- An Evening Walk (con’t) / Again In The Black Cloud – JH Prynne
8. Bonesnapper – GWAR -- Again In The Black Cloud (con’t) – JH Prynne
9. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic

Destroy All Cars!

No.226, aired August 7, 2013. Includes a complete reading of a fictional high school essay called “DESTROY ALL CARS” by a novel of the same title by Blake Nelson, plus more readings from Colin Smith’s Carbonated Bippies! and a bit of Georgius Agricola’s De Re Metallia, a classic work of metallurgy.

Here the text I wrote during the first Jaworzyn/Wilkinson track & read out during the second:

The traffic as imagined by Jaworzyn & Wilkinson, unlike in heavy metal, is not the smooth engine hum or muffled street drone, or the stuff of smooth flow, but an abrupt tangle-jangle & plaintiff honks & squeels, it’s the sound of jam traffic & bang traffic & fender benders & bloody blenders & piles-up & smash-ups & victims screaming. This is the systemic violence wreaked on the world by big auto & big oil & all their subsidiaries. No steady drum or cozy guitar fuzz here folks – this is reality.

Part 1

1. Spokes For The Wheel Of Torment – Buckethead -- Destroy All Cars – Blake Nelson
2. Destroy All Automobiles - Bunchofuckingoofs -- Destroy All Cars (continued) – Blake Nelson
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. In Dog We Trust - Bunchofuckingoofs
5. Fist Full Of Flies – Metallic Taste Of Blood -- Destroy All Cars (continued) – Blake Nelson
6. Excerpts From A Typical Hard Bop Blowing Session - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson -- Campbell – Colin Smith
7. Alcoholiday Turned Alcoholocaust - Bunchofuckingoofs

Part 2

1. Warriors Of Ice – Voivod
2. David Murray Dons A Cunning Alan Wilkinson Disguise And Blags His Way Onto A Bill At The Termite Club - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson -- Odious Twerpus / The Renderer Of Cold Realm – Colin Smith
3. Coke: The Real Thing For Real Assholes - Bunchofuckingoofs -- The Renderer Of Cold Realm (continued) – Colin Smith
4. King Cockroach – Metallic Taste Of Blood -- De Re Metallica – Georgius Agricola
5. Hogs Of War – Bunchofuckingoofs
6. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer -- De Re Metallica (continued) – Georgius Agricola

Carbonated Bippies & Royal Jelly

No.225, aired July 31, 2013, featuring readings from Royal Jelly (Black Rider Press, 2011) by Saskatoon’s Matthew Hall (1st half), and Desprit, from Carbonated Bippies! (Nomados, 2012) by Winnipeg’s Colin Smith (2nd half). I realized after air-time that Desprit should probably be pronounced less like a French word and more like "desperate."

Part 1

1. Royal Jelly 1 – Matthew Hall
2. Sickness – Royal Red Brigade
3. Symphony No.3, Op.18, I: Adagio-Allegro – Jacques Hetu -- Royal Jelly 2,3,4,5,6,7 – Matthew Hall
4. Piece Of Mind – Reminiscence Quartet -- Royal Jelly 7,8 – Matthew Hall
5. M13 – Derek Bailey -- Roal Jelly 9,10,11,12 – Matthew Hall
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Whiskey River – Comets On Fire

Part 2

1. Renegades - Royal Red Brigade
2. Symphony No.3, Op.18, II: Adagio – Jacques Hetu -- Desprit – Colin Smith
3. Death In The Suburbs – Diodes
4. Symphony No.3, Op.18, III: Allegro Vivace-Lento – Jacques Hetu -- Desprit (continued) – Colin Smith
5. Inner Space – Soundscape -- Desprit (continued) – Colin Smith
6. Piece Of Mind – Reminiscence Quartet -- Desprit (continued) – Colin Smith
7. M5 – Derek Bailey