Baltimore, Cleveland, Cucamonga & Sun Village

No.240, aired December 4, 2013, a tribute to Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) on the 20th anniversary of his passing. The special thing here was I chose 3 or 4 Zappa CDs I wanted to play, chose the original side 2 of the Roxy & Elsewhere album (Tracks 4-6 on the CD) and two tracks from Does Humor Belong In Music? – and realized I had two of the rare songs Frank wrote about places where he had lived – What’s New In Baltimore and Village Of The Sun. In both cases, a subdued song about a place launches an extended instrumental adventure. I checked a third CD, Bongo Fury, for a short track to end the program with, and found Cucamonga, a third little song Zappa wrote about a little place where he had lived. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time to play the longer follow-up, Advance Romance.

Part 1

1. Peanut Butter Thing – Tim Posgate
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Village of the Sun – Frank Zappa
4. Echidna’s Arf (Of You) – Frank Zappa
5. Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing? – Frank Zappa
6. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
7. Punished By Funk – King Cobb Steelie

Part 2

1. Partner – Lungbutter
2. What’s New In Baltimore? – Frank Zappa
3. Lid Factor – Tim Posgate
4. Let’s Move To Cleveland – Frank Zappa
5. Cucamonga (with a bit of Black Napkins) – Frank Zappa

Textures Liminales, Yellowfields & Moral Panic

No.239, aired November 27, 2013. Another unplanned episode, with more readings from Yellowfield #8.

Part 1

1. Trynottothink – Moral Panic
2. Hurt The People You Love – Kill Cheerleader
3. State Demands The Interest Of The Capitalist Class – Moral Panic
4. Time and Place – Jon Hassell -- The Hat Trick – G.N. Gabbard
5. Yacub – Moral Panic
6. Textures Liminales (I) – Ana-Maria Avram -- Immodest Sonnets / Slow Construction – G.N. Gabbard
7. Dead Labour – Moral Panic
8. Sell Your Soul – Kill Cheerleader

Part 2

1. One Solution... Revolution – Moral Panic
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Happy New Year – Moral Panic
4. So Young – Kill Cheerleader
5. Textures Liminales (II) – Ana-Maria Avram -- In Memoriam: Teapot Dome – G.N. Gabbard / Colour Process (Americana) / Don’t Become – Anna Reckin
6. Set Them Free – D.O.A.
7. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT -- West End Blues – Pam Brown
8. Sailing On – Bad Brains

Brutal Outer Space Knight Stirring-Spout Fat-Stock Threat

No.238, aired November 20, 2013. An unplanned episode, including a reading of Little Marlborough At The Seashore by the late Norma Kassierer, from Yellowfield #8, an issue in her honour.

Part 1

1. Bad Choice – Brutal Knights
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Zone of Compass Unreliability – Tristan Psionic
4. I Do Nothing – Brutal Knights
5. A Hundred Stirring-Spout Pots – THF Drenching
6. I Hate Chores– Brutal Knights

Part 2

1. We Like To Fight – Threat From Outer Space
2. Sixty-Nine Fat-Stock Breviaries – THF Drenching
3. Guesswork – Threat From Outer Space
4. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
5. Monorails & Satellites – Sun Ra
6. Anime Eyes - The Awkward Stage

5th Anniversary Special

No.237, aired November 13, 2013. 5th Anniversary Episode, featuring the best musical artists I learned about in the last 12 months + tracks from Frank Zappa’s Lather album, poems from Ken Babstock’s Methodist Hatchet, and poems by Jay MillAr, Astrid Lorange, and Louis Armand from Forward Slash (“/”).  

Part 1

1. I Won’t Survive – The Grates
2. Soft Flesh For The Dungeon Of The Damned – B-Monster
3. Wet Brainz – FPG
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Red Shoes – Spiral Beach
6. 40th Parallel – Groundtruther
7. For The Young Sophisticate – Frank Zappa
8. Le Boeuf et la Grenouille – IKS
9. Run – Stiffed
10. O Argaleious – George Koufogiannakis
11. Powerful Wonderful - Satanatras

Part 2

1. Megots – IKS
2. The Dog – Spiderbait
3. Drop – James Rolfe (comp.) / Continuum Contemporary Music
4. Sleep Creep – White Lung
5. Organs – Comets On Fire
6. Be My Babysitter – Brutal Knights
7. Down In De Dew – Frank Zappa
8. Guesswork – Threat From Outer Space
9. Sept 16th, 2005 – Fond Of Tigers
10. 1,000 Cigarettes - MSTRKRFT

Penis?

Aired November 6, 2013, featuring four tracks from THF Drenching’s Cup Penis Open Penis Cup, and several of Lorna Crozier’s “Penis Poems.”

Part 1

1. Seven Kinder Dach Lieder 2 – THF Drenching
2. Space Weiner – Lungbutter
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Super Banana – Lungbutter
5. Seven Kinder Dach Lieder 3 – THF Drenching
6. Man-Size Sextet – PJ Harvey
7. Big Dick – Nomeansno
8. Kaelin’s Mood – George Koufogiannakis
9. Man-Size – PJ Harvey
10. Seven Kinder Dach Lieder 4 – THF Drenching
11. Snake – PJ Harvey
12. Dave’s Blues – George Koufogiannakis -- Osiris – Lorna Crozier
13. 50FT Queenie – PJ Harvie
14. Seven Kinder Dach Lieder 1 – THF Drenching

Part 2

1. Brainless Wonder – Nomeansno
2. Hors Tension – Emetics
3. Eat Steel – GWAR
4. Cure A Being Cruise – Emetics
5. Postcards On A Train – George Koufogiannakis -- Variations / Facts – Lorna Crozier
6. To Weezer – Emetics
7. Penis I See – GWAR
8. Kid Inspector – Emetics
9. As Poume – George Koufogiannakis -- Phallic / Their Smell / Tales For Virgins – Lorna Crozier
10. Sweetly Like Jake The Dildo – Emetics
11. Fight – GWAR
12. Larry Suffered For Larry – Emetics
13. March Of The Crabs – Anvil -- Overture – Lorna Crozier

Wolves! & Werewolves ...

Aired October 30, 2013. I noticed a lot of my discs have songs about wolves, and in some cases werewolves. So it only seemed natural to play them all in one episode, on the eve of Halloween. Included 4 spoken word tracks by Howlin’ Wolf and a live reading of Little Redcap by the Grimm bros.

Part 1

1. Where’s My Wolves? – Forbidden Dimension
2. Klavierstucke IV – Karlheinz Stockhausen (comp.) / David Tudor (piano) -- Howlin' Wolf Talks #2
3. The Wolves Do Their Own Hunting – Swelter
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa -- Howlin' Wolf Talks #4
5. I’m The Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
6. Wolves & Werewolves – Pack A.D.
7. Klavierstucke I – Karlheinz Stockhausen (comp.) / David Tudor (piano) -- Howlin' Wolf Talks #1
8. Werewolf – 5 Man Electrical Band
9. Klavierstucke VIII – Karlheinz Stockhausen (comp.) / David Tudor (piano)
10. Howlin’ Wolf Boogie - Howlin' Wolf

Part 2

1. Wulfblaster – Kleins96
2. Klavierstucke II & III – Karlheinz Stockhausen (comp.) / David Tudor (piano)
3. The Wolf Man Kindly Requests – Clutch
4. Moaning Wolf – Burro -- Howlin' Wolf Talks #3
5. Wild Old Wolfman – Forbidden Dimension
6. Madam, Your Grave Is Ready – Forbidden Dimension
7. The Wolf I Feed – Napalm Death
8. Gag Odour – Forbidden Dimension
9. The Wolf Is At Your Door - Howlin' Wolf

Part Bubbles In Brazen Kettles, Part Sputters On Spits, The Full Hour Dripping With Gore

No.234, aired October 23, 2013. A pre-Halloween episode with readings of 3 Odes by John Keats, and a fortuitously gorey portion of Ovid’s Metamorphoses where the vengeance of Procne & Philomena is wreaked to the tune of James Rolfe’s Revenge! Revenge!! Revenge!!! As always, the Ovid passage was a blind selection, the next in sequence, and the congruence with other audio material unplanned. “Bachanalian Vengeance” might have been an appropriate title, but the bloody Ovidean tale provided no end of more colourful possibilities – here are but a few: The Ravenous Bird Of Jove Has Dropped His Prize, The Barbarous Fellow Triumphs, Blood Smeared Over Plumage, The Savage Tyrant’s Wrath Aroused, Offered Her Throat To The Stroke, The Mangled Root Quivers While The Severed Tongue Lies Palpatating, The Severed Tail Of A Mangled Snake Twitches Convulsively, Soul Bent On The Thought Of Vengence, Night Resounds With The Shrill Clash Of Brazen Symbols, Dons The Array Of Frenzy, Mimics Your Madness, Oh Bacchas, Trappings Of The Bachic Rites, Still Warm And Quivering With Life, Invokes The Snaky Sisters From The Stygian Pit, To Seek The Bright Gleaming Fleece Of Gold ...

Part 1

1. Graveyard Line – Forbidden Dimension
2. Freddy’s Dead – James Rolfe (composer) / Continuum Contemporary Music (orchestra)
3. The Leper’s Honeymoon – Swelter
4. Defcon 2 – Man ... Or Astroman
5. Nothing Left Alive – GWAR
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Haunted – Forbidden Dimension
8. Devilled Swan – James Rolfe (composer) / Continuum Contemporary Music (orchestra)
9. Spiderbite – Forbidden Dimension

Part 2

1. Vulture Feed / Dreamdate – Forbidden Dimension
2. Electric Arc – Man ... Or Astroman
3. Revenge! Revenge!! Revenge!!! – James Rolfe (composer) / Continuum Contemporary Music (orchestra)
4. Staggering Into The Night – Swelter
5. Defcon 5 – Man ... Or Astroman
6. Wild Doll – Forbidden Dimension
7. Defcon 1 – Man ... Or Astroman