Pure As Arctic Snow

No. 63, aired February 24, 2010.

A very geological episode featuring an on-air reading from Christian Bok’s Crystallography, a book of ice so clean you can see yourself in it.

Part 1

1. Trapped Under Ice - Metallica
2. Naval Aviation in Art? – Frank Zappa
3. New Meteors & Pulsars – Iancu Dumitrescu / Hyperion Ensemble -- Geodes – Christian Bok
4. Pure As The Arctic Snow – GWAR
5. I (Fuck) Mountains – Pink Mountaintops

Part 2

1. Call Of The Triumphant – Thor
2. No Emotion – Hanson Brothers
3. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid – Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO -- (epigraph to Crystallography by M.C. Escher) / Krystallos / Katharsis / Kalokagathia / Crystals (Preliminary Survey) / The Hagiography of Snow: Preface / Krystalloneiros / Crystals / “Turbulent winds ...” / Crystals (Euclid & His Modern Rivals) – Christian Bok
4. Electric Jewels – April Wine

Bad Brains & Wild Rumours

No. 62, aired February 17, 2010.

This episode plunged further & deeper into the darkness that is Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (see also nos. 58 & 59).

Part 1

1. Hearst - King Cobb Steelie -- Ch.41 (Moby Dick)
2. I - Bad Brains
3. Dark Chi – Atomic Bitchwax
4. Son Of Heldenleben – Murray Schafer (composer) / Orch. Symphonique de Montreal -- Ch.41 (con’t)
5. I Against I – Bad Brains

Part 2

1. F.V.K. (Fearless Vampire Killers) – Bad Brains
2. East – Murray Schafer (composer) / National Arts Centre Orch. -- Ch.41 (con’t)
3. Big Takeover – Bad Brains
4. Destroyer – Atomic Bitchwax
5. La Vendetta – King Cobb Steelie -– Ch.52 (The Albatross)
6. Voyage Into Infinity – Bad Brains
7. In Memoriam Alberto Guerrero – Murray Schafer (composer) / Vancouver Symphony Orch. -- Ch.59 (The Squid)
8. Sailing - Ripcordz

Avian Cartography

No. 61, aired February 10, 2010.

This episode presented a bird's-eye view of the earth & an earth-eye gaze at the sky, featuring four tracks from the Mahavishnu Orchestra's 1973 album Birds of Fire, two from the Buttless Chaps' Cartography, five from a Mayday records punk compilation, Chris Cutler's Life On Earth, and a live reading of Charles Olson's poem Kingfishers.

Part 1

1. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters - Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. We Gotta Go - Borderguards
4. Cartography - Buttless Chaps -- Kingfishers - Charles Olson
5. Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
6. Behind Your Screen - The Class Assassins
7. The Flight Of The Bumblebee - Disembarkation
8. Zone Of Compass Unreliability - Tristan Psionic
9. One Last Chance - Knucklehead

Part 2

1. Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love - Mahavishnu Orchestra
2. Don't Tread On Me - Wednesday Night Heros
3. Life On Earth - Chris Cutler / Hyperion Ensemble -- Kingfishers - Charles Olson
4. Miles Beyond - Mahavishnu Orchestra
5. Rise Above - Riot 99
6. Broken Transit Broken Soil - Buttless Chaps
7. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic

Airway To Heaven

A starry vault, a firmament dividing celestial waters, paradisiacal mind state, cloud city, New Jerusalem, City of God ... What's your conception of Heaven or the heavens? Can you get there by air? From 10pm to midnight on February 3, 2010 Naval Aviation In Audio tried, reading the poetry of Canadian Christopher Dewdney (Radiant Inventory) and Brit Keston Sutherland (Antifreeze) with Alexina Louie's From the Eastern Gate and other music. This episode included the entire Hairway to Steven album by the Butthole Surfers, and just to make sure things didn't get too serious, 3 blasphemous tracks from Frank Zappa's You Are What You Is. Second ever Double Episode.

Part 1

1. Ricky - Butthole Surfers
2. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Exit Plexit - Simply Saucer
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. John E. Smoke - Butthole Surfers
6. From The Eastern Gate 1 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Radiant Inventory / This My Emissary - Christopher Dewdney
7. Sun Ship - John Coltrane
8. I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas - Butthole Surfers

Part 2

1. Sol, Pt. 1 - Wooden Shjips -- Ten Past Nine - Keston Sutherland
2. From The Eastern Gate 4 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
3. Fart Song - Butthole Surfers
4. Attaining - John Coltrane
5. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing - Frank Zappa
6. From The Eastern Gate 3 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Jettison Khaki - Christopher Dewdney

Part 3

1. From The Eastern Gate 6 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
2. Jimi - Butthole Surfers
3. Dumb All Over - Frank Zappa
4. From The Eastern Gate 5 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Winter Central - Christopher Dewdney
5. Mole Machine - Simply Saucer -- Among The Golden Sheaves - Keston Sutherland
6. Julio Iglesias - Butthole Surfers

Part 4

1. Rocky - Butthole Surfers
2. Amen - John Coltrane
3. From The Eastern Gate 7 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp) -- Heaven - Christopher Dewdney
4. Backass - Butthole Surfers
5. Heavenly Bank Account
6. From The Eastern Gate 2 - Alexina Louie (composer) / Erica Goodman (harp)
7. Sailing - Ripcordz

Conquistador

No. 59, aired 10pm - midnight, January 27, 2010. First ever Double Episode!

And fittingly, this 2-hour epic episode featured more chapters from Herman Melville's epic novel Moby Dick (see #58), with each of the four 30-minute segments featuring at least one epic-length musical track.

Part 1

1. M10 - Derek Bailey -- Ch.14 (Nantucket)
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Broken Ship - Immaculate Machine
4. Because Because Because - Escapade -- Ch.24 (The Advocate), Ch.19 (The Prophet)

Part 2

1. Deadly Sinners - 3 Inches of Blood
2. Rasas I - Norma Beecroft -- Ch.35 (The Mast-Head)
3. Telephone Song - Tim Postgate -- Ch.35 (con't)
4. M1 - Derek Bailey -- Ch.35 (con't)
5. Two Went To Sleep - Norma Beecroft

Part 3

1. Time We Left This World Today - Hawkwind -- Ch.37 (Sunset)
2. Conquistador - Cecil Taylor -- Ch.36 (The Quarter Deck)
3. Revenge Is A Vulture - 3 Inches of Blood

Part 4

1. Air Traffic Control - Tristan Psionic -- Ch.48 (The First Lowering)
2. Pathways to Unknown Worlds - Sun Ra -- Ch.48 (con't)
3. Filthy Habits - Frank Zappa -- Ch.48 (con't)
4. M11 - Derek Bailey
5. Destroy The Orcs - 3 Inches of Blood

Outward Bound

No. 58, aired January 20, 2010

Featured text was the Classics Library audiobook edition of Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, originally published in 1851, narrated by Frank Muller. Chapters played are indicated below with their accompanying music.

This episode is titled after Eric Dolphy's 1960 Outward Bound album (from which the 2 Dolphy tracks were played).

Part 1

1. Everything Is Alive - Beef Terminal -- Ch.1 (Loomings)
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Who - Brian Jonestown Massacre
4. Les - Eric Dolphy -- Ch.1 (cont'd)
5. Stormy High - Black Mountain
6. the hylozoists - The Hylozoists -- Ch.3 (The Spouter-Inn)
7. Revenge Of The Viper Three - Sheavy

Part 2

1. Lion's Gate - Helios Creed -- Ch.9 (The Sermon)
2. All Around You - Brian Jonestown Massacre
3. Leave A Message - Neon Tetra -- Ch.9 (cont'd)
4. G.W. - Eric Dolphy -- Ch.9 (cont'd)
5. All The Love (instrumental) - Helios Creed -- Ch.9 (cont'd)

Industrial Sabotage

No. 57, January 13, 2010.

Featured text was Issue no. 62 of Industrial Sabotage, a long-running experimental poetry organ published by Ottawa's jwcurry on his Curvd H&z imprint (#458, 2006). Also read David UU's Elemental Journey (Curvd H&z #444, 1999).

Part 1

1. Crunch Time - Ripcordz
2. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
3. Geneve - Raking Bombs
4. L'arbre de Borobudur - Gilles Tremblay -- Industrial Sabotage 62 (see list of individual poems below)

Part 2

1. Blood On The Floor - Ripcordz
2. Nettle Bed - Soft Machine -- Elemental Journey - David UU
3. Technocratic Manipulators - Voivod
4. Give a Man a Saxaphone and He'll End Up Playing Jazz - Stefan Jaworzyn & Alan Wilkinson
5. Sailing - Ripcordz
6. Batman - Voivod


The following poems were read during L'arbre de Borobudur in Part 1:

Stereoville / lexa red an mass a fear - Sam Andreyev
THE ONLY SOUND / REVELATIONS - Nelson Ball
Stoma 1351 / Stoma 1337: box pome- lost - Guy R. Beining
15 circus storeez - bill bissett
"somewhere blue ice is growing" - b. a. carver
.02.08.03 crow / .02.04.12.2 - Judith Copithorne
Due To The Success Of The Tonsilectomy / A Short History Of The Rebellion
The Taint / stuck in the back - David Fijino
37 RUE DE LA BOUCHERIE - Hans Jewinski
THE LAST CEDER (back in the daze) - Billy Little
the bell-wether - Michael Mann

For more information about Curvd H&z publications, write to:
jwcurry
#302-880 Somerset Street West
Ottawa, Canada K1R 6R7