Art of War

Aired February 25, 2009. Featured chapters from The Art of War (on audiobook) by Sun Tzu, played with King Cobb Steelie and the Leeds-based improvizing trio of Hession/Wilkinson/Fell.

Part 1

1. My American Partner - King Cobb Steelie
2. War - DOA
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. 12 Minutes for George - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
5. International Master - King Cobb Steelie
6. Horror of Yig - GWAR

Part 2

1. Vlad the Impaler - GWAR
2. The Alphabet Poised Like Twenty-six Frozen Ducklings - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
3. Sound Baffle - King Cobb Steelie
4. World War 3 - DOA
5. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere - Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
6. Deadbeat - King Cobb Steelie
7. Maggots - GWAR
8. Sailin' On - Bad Brains

This Cleaving & this Burning ...

Episode 14 aired February 18, 2009, and featured the poetry of Hart Crane read live in the CJTR studio with Arnold Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16 (1949 Revision), as well as tracks from John Coltrane's Love Supreme, The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines, gypsy punks Gogol Bordello, and The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir.

Part 1

1. Sweet Tooth - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Acknowledgment - John Coltrane
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Life is Long - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
5. Summer Morning by a Lake - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra -- Legend - Hart Crane, Repose of Rivers - Hart Crane
6. Burnin' Inside - King Khan & the Shrines
7. Peripetia - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra
8. Taking it Out - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Part 2

1. Torture - King Khan & the Shrines
2. Resolution - John Coltrane
3. Illumination - Gogol Bordello
4. The Obligatory Recitative - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra -- Possessions - Hart Crane
5. Outta Harm's Way - King Khan & the Shrines
6. Premonitions - Arnold Schoenberg / London Symphony Orchestra
7. Mishto! - Gogol Bordello

Mostly Monsters

Episode 13 concerned mostly monsters, featuring Guerilla Funk Monster's Triptophonic, Monster Magnet from their store of treasures downloadable at http://www.monstermagnet.net, and The Bomboras' It Came from Pier 13. Passages from the anonymous Medieval epic Beowulf were read over several movements from Edgar Varese's Deserts.

Part 1
1. It Came from Pier 13 - The Bomboras
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Organic Space - Guerrilla Funk Monster
4. Deserts (1st episode) - Edgar Varese
5. Alone - Guerrilla Funk Monster
6. Live for the Moment - Monster Magnet
7. Deserts (2nd interpolation) - Edgar Varese
8. Break my Bones - Guerrilla Funk Monster

Part 2
1. Interlijeridoo - Guerrilla Funk Monster
2. Pier Thirteen - The Bomboras
3. Deserts (3rd interpolation) - Edgar Varese
4. Unsolid - Monster Magnet
5. Savages - Guerrilla Funk Monster
6. Into the Void - Monster Magnet
7. drunkbot robot jam - Guerrilla Funk Monster
8. Deserts (4th episode) - Edgar Varese
9. Leapin Lizards - Monster Magnet
10. puddle pants - Guerrilla Funk Monster
11. It Came from Pier 13 (Reprise) - The Bomboras

Microorganisms & Explosions

Usually, on this show I have mixed various musical works with spoken or recorded texts. In this episode, that was done for me, because I featured The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra, from London, England, and their dadaist music & spoken word masterpiece, A Life in a Day of a Microorganism. Also featured were some tracks from Canadian Blast & the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Part 1

1. Introduction – The primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
2. Changed – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Anarchavid – Lederhosen
5. A Life in a Day of a Microorganism (a) Prelude - the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
6. Fairweather – Shikasta
7. A Life in a Day of a Microorganism - (b) Morning - the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
8. No Feelings – Cheerleader 666


Part 2

1. '78 Style - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 3) – Alexina Louie; Erica Goodman on harp
3. Water Main - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
4. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 1) – Alexina Louie; Erica Goodman on harp
5. Biological - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
6. A Life in a Day of a Microorganism - (c) Afternoon and Afterlife - the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra
7. Geneve – Raking Bombs
8. Jacques and Madeleine – Run Chico Run
9. From the Eastern Gate (Haiku 2) – Alexina Louie; Erica Goodman on harp
10. Sailin' On – Bad Brains

Nutshell Cosmos

This eleventh episode featured Stephen Hawking's audiobook The Universe in a Nutshell with The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra and 2 bands from Hamilton Ontario: psychedelic rockers Simply Saucer and indie-rockers Tristan Psionic. Aired January 28, 2009.

Part 1

1. Nebulae – Sun Ra
2. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. Other Worlds – Sun Ra
5. Illegal Bodies – Simply Saucer
6. Of Heavenly Things – Sun Ra
7. Zone of Compass Unreliability – Tristan Psionic

Part 2

1. Mole Machine – Simply Saucer
2. The Cosmos – Sun Ra
3. Clearly Invisible – Simply Saucer
4. Thither & Yon - Sun Ra
5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Gunshots & Bloodletting

Words in this episode come from Take All of Murphy, a story played from Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, an audiobook of true stories from the operating theatre. Lam's descriptions of medical students cutting into their first cadavers were accompanied for the most part by the ethereal instrumentals of The Hylozoists' CD La Nouvelle Gauche, and complemented by the controlled chaos of John Zorn's Naked City, which was itself offset by the low-fi blues groove of The Pack A.D. and violent experimental rock of the Butthole Surfers' Locust Abortion Technician. Aired January 21, 2009.

1. intro -- The Hylozoists - The Hylozoists
2. You Will Be Shot – John Zorn
3. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
4. A Shot in the Dark – John Zorn
5. Bang – The Pack AD
6. Reanimator – John Zorn
7. Newrealmsofvibration – The Hylozoists
8. James Bond Theme – John Zorn
9. Paper Bag – The Pack AD
10. Weber – The Butthole Surfers
11. Hardtack Saloon #1 – The Pack AD

Part 2

1. Bone Handle – The Pack AD
2. Blood Duster – John Zorn
3. Parisianeyes – The Hylozoists
4. The O-Men – The Butthole Surfers
5. Thecrippledgiant – The Hylozoists
6. Demon Sanctuary – John Zorn
7. Graveyard – The Butthole Surfers
8. Graveyard Shift – John Zorn
9. Gold Rush – The Pack AD
10. Igneous Ejaculation – John Zorn
11. Outro -- Human Cannonball – The Butthole Surfers

Guitars & Birds & Freedom

Episode 9 explored the nature of freedom by reading the bird poems (sprung-rhythm Petrarchan sonnets) of 19th Century Jesuit monk Gerard Manley Hopkins with some ground-breaking solo improvizations from the late British guitarist Derek Bailey. Added to the mix were some Zappa, Hendrix, and several tracks from DOA's 2008 release Northern Avenger, named after Joe Keithley's guitar.

AS a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage
Man’s mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells—
That bird beyond the remembering his free fells;
This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life’s age.

Though aloft on turf or perch or poor low stage,
Both sing sometímes the sweetest, sweetest spells,
Yet both droop deadly sómetimes in their cells
Or wring their barriers in bursts of fear or rage.

(Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1877)

Part 1

1. This Machine Kills Fascists – DOA
2. intro -- M1 – Derek Bailey
3. Human Bomb – DOA
4. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Theme from Captain Black – James Blood Ulmer
6. M2 – Derek Bailey -- As Kingfishers Catch Fire – Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. Revealing – James Blood Ulmer
8. Set Them Free – DOA
9. M6 – Derek Bailey -- The Sea and the Skylark – Hopkins
10. Golden State – DOA

Part 2

1. But Who Was Fulcanelli? – Frank Zappa
2. Flux Capacitor - The Surfadelics
3. M5 – Derek Bailey -- The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins
4. Woodstock Improvization – Jimi Hendrix
5. Last Chance – DOA
6. M7 – Derek Bailey -- The Caged Skylark - Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. California Hardcore Last Chance - DOA
8. M8 – Derek Bailey
9. Villanova Junction – Jimi Hendrix
10. For Duane – Frank Zappa -- outro