Black Forest Myth

No.155, aired January 25, 2012. This episode began with the arrival of a double-CD live set of Sun Ra from the early 1970s – Black Myth / Out In Space – and from there it was only a matter of finding supporting material from Buckethead’s Cuckoo Clocks of Hell CD, Schoenberg’s psychodrama set in the woods, Erwartung, and a live reading from pages 76-79 of the densest forest in English Literature, Finnegans Wake.

Part 1

1. Erwartung, Scene I – Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Janis Martin (Soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra
2. No End In Sight – Contaminate
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. The Black Forest – Buckethead
5. Black Forest Myth – Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra
6. India Speaks Cryptically To The World – Swelter
7. Erwartung, Scene II – Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Janis Martin (Soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra
8. Numbskull – Contaminate
9. Friendly Galaxy No.2 - Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra
10. Swift Pulls A Fast One – Swelter

Part 2

1. Oblivion Trail - Swelter
2. Erwartung, Scene III – Arnold Schoenberg (composer) / Janis Martin (Soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra
3. Deadly Sins – Contaminate
4. Strange Worlds / Black Myth / It’s After The End Of The World - Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra
5. Dismal Land – Swelter
6. Woods Of Suicide – Buckethead
7. Zone Of Compass Unreliability – Tristan Psionic

Foam Frenzy In Nodular Fore-Swim

No.154, aired January 18, 2012, including a reading of “Northumbria” from Out To Lunch’s poetry collection Swift Blab Residue, published by Veer Books in 2009, accompanied by two guitar pieces by Frank Zappa and the 24 minute opening track from Saigon You Crazy Diamond by the improvizing trio of Simeon Abbot & The Bent Spoon Duo.

Also featured “Boning Up With Baudelaire & Tomlinson,” an audio mash-up made from the third meeting of the Association of Musical Marxists – this file can be downloaded for free at http://www.unkant.com/.

Part 1

1. That Ol’ G Minor Thing Again – Frank Zappa -- Northumbria – Out To Lunch
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. New Clientele – The Shades
4. Low Sound IsThe Voice – Emetics
5. Boning Up With Baudelaire & Tomlinson: AMM3 At The Blue Posts 15-xii-2011 – The Association Of Musical Marxists
6. What Do You Want Me To Be – The Furies
7. German Bells – Emetics
8. Republicans – Frank Zappa – Northumbria (continued) – Out To Lunch

Part 2

1. 634 Dog – AKA & The Charlatans
2. Saigon You Crazy Diamond (1) – Simeon Abbot & The Bent Spoon Duo -- Northumbria (continued) – Out To Lunch / Metamorphoses (Flood Episode from Bk.1) - Ovid
3. I Don’t Give A Shit - Biz

Mothers In It For The Money

No.153, aired January 11, 2012. First ever two-hour episode running 9 – 11 pm (some previous editions ran 10 – 12). Featured the complete We’re Only In It For The Money album by The Mothers Of Invention, released in 1968. Also included more passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses on audiobook.

Part 1

1. Your Inner Mind – Emetics
2. I Don’t Love You – Dishrags
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Dance Of The Swamp Woman – Five Man Electrical Band
5. Boomer’s Hill Road – Zubot & Dawson
6. I Wanna Be A Girl – The Generators
7. Efg – Emetics
8. I Wanna Be A Girl – King Khan & The Shrines
9. Hoedown – Zubot & Dawson
10. Aunti Anti – Emetics
11. Barbra – Modernettes
12. The Last Waltz Of John Kordic – Joel Fafard

Part 2

1. Go Stoned Bees – Emetics
2. Divided By Three – Female Hands
3. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
4. We’re Only In It For The Money (side 1): Are You Hung Up? / Who Needs The Peace Corps? / Concentration Moon / Mom & Dad / Telephone Conversation / Bow Tie Daddy / Harry, You’re A Beast / What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? / Absolutely Free / Flower Punk / Hot Poop – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
5. M5 – Derek Bailey

Part 3

1. Partner – Lungbutter
2. We’re Only In It For The Money (side 1): Nasal Retentive Calliope Music / Let’s Make The Water Turn Black / The Idiot Bastard Son / Lonely Little Girl / Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance / What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (reprise) / Mother People / The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
3. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer
4. Money Back Guarantee – Five Man Electrical Band

Part 4

1. Parenthetical Squeeze – Emetics
2. Land Of The Freak – King Khan & The Shrines
3. Uncle Meat Variations – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
4. Red Tube Brule – Emetics
5. 1/28 Silverfish Macronix – Derek Bailey (guitar & vocals) / Out To Lunch (text)
6. Circle, With Tangents, no.2 – John Beckwith
7. Liar For Hire – D.O.A.
8. Art 3 – Jaworzyn / Wilkinson / Fell
9. Meditation 1 & 2 – Pericardium
10. Bodies - Pericardium

Sun Ship

No.152, aired January 4, 2012, still celebrating the Solstice season with three tracks from John Coltrane’s 1965 Sun Ship LP and the Phaithon episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (on audiobook), where the human son of Apollo usurps the sun chariot with disastrous consequences.

Part 1

1. Off The Deep End – Insex
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Dearly Beloved – John Coltrane
4. Nothing Holding You – Active Dog
5. Amen – John Coltrane
6. Awakening – Mahavishnu Orchestra
7. Suicide Ride – CPC Gangbangs

Part 2

1. Don’t Go Lookin’ For Trouble – Mose Scarlett
2. The Noonward Race – Mahavishnu Orchestra
3. (Right On) Thru – L7
4. Sun Ship – John Coltrane
5. Beautiful Sun – Little Miss Higgins
6. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
7. I Control, I Fly – Monster Magnet

Antifreeze

No.151, aired December 28, 2011, featuring live readings from Cambridge Avant-Garde poet Keston Sutherland’s book Antifreeze, which, bizarrely enough, I discovered was last used for this program on December 29, 2010 – must be something about that book that invokes the end-of-time – or else this is the time of year I start to feel cold (and therefore need antifreeze!).

This was a special episode in that I played all of the remaining tracks from Lungbutter’s classic 37-track CD Available Now that I had never played before on the program, including their 5 “Public Service Announcements.” The end of Available Now features a strange cluster of lyrical themes related to the idea of chemical ingestion & mortality – antifreeze, brainfreeze, mouthwash, birth defect, coroner – fun stuff!

Part 1

1. From Enslavement To Obliteration – Napalm Death
2. Antifreeze Ain’t That Bad – Lungbutter
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Sound Spectra / Spec Sket – Sun Ra -- The Little Match Girl – Keston Sutherland
5. Lucid Fairytale – Napalm Death
6. Brainfreeze – Lungbutter
7. Unchallenged Hate – Napalm Death
8. Pleasure – Sun Ra -- A Bang Covers Me / Insomnia – Keston Sutherland
9. Coroner – Lungbutter
10. Think For A Minute – Napalm Death

Part 2

1. Private Death – Napalm Death
2. Mouthwash Mosh – Lungbutter
3. Other Planes Of There – Sun Ra – Insomnia (con’t) / A Break For Two / A Countdown To Repeat / Do You Blossom / An Accidental Elegy For GATT – Keston Sutherland
4. Birth Defect – Lungbutter
5. Uncertainty Blurs The Vision – Napalm Death
6. Room For Rent – Lungbutter
7. Sailing – Ripcordz
8. Partner – Lungbutter

The Mystery Of The Reality And The Reality Of The Mystery Of Our Cosmic Existence

No.150, aired December 21, 2011 – the Winter Solstice special, featuring a playing of Regina poet Robert Betteridge’s Trilogy #2, from the great cerebral orb contesting the primitive coconut to the final invocation of the Sun’s Power in The Second Coming Scam, an incredible text to be played on the darkest day of 2011.

Part 1

1. Incantation – Voivod
2. Permeability – Hylozoists -- Prologue – Robert Betteridge
3. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.1 – Arnold Schoenberg
4. Helldriver – Voivod
5. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
6. There Ain’t No Santa Clause On The Evenin’ Stage - Captain Beefheart
7. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.2 – Arnold Schoenberg -- Trilogy #2 (a) Premoe Moe And Humoe - Robert Betteridge
8. Quo Vadis – King Cobb Steelie -- Trilogy #2 (a) (continued)

Part 2

1. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.3 – Arnold Schoenberg
2. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.4 – Arnold Schoenberg -- Trilogy #2 (b) All One – One All (SiFi) A Temporary Myth - Robert Betteridge
3. Voivod – Voivod
4. 5 Pieces For Orchestra, Op.16, no.1 – Arnold Schoenberg – Trilogy #2 (c) The Second Coming Scam - Robert Betteridge
5. Reprise – Hylozoists -- Trilogy #2 (c) (continued)
6. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (version from Hendrix in the West)

Cosmo-Orgazmic Finale

No.149, aired December 14, 2011. This was the finale of the Orgazmo-Cosmic Ascension series, featuring the 1st edit of John Coltrane’s Ascension (the 2nd was played on June 1, 2011 to kick off the series).

The episode culminated with a playing of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (on audiobook) with the final few minutes of Ascension – an episode wherein Neptune raises his trident as the sea rises apocalyptic and armies of dolphins invade the woods – unplanned but strangely appropriate!

Part 1

1. Whatever Would Beckett Have Said - Swelter
2. Descent Garden – Emetics
3. Cage Around The Sun – Monster Magnet
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Ascension, edit 1 – John Coltrane

Part 2

1. Ascension, edit 1 (continued) – John Coltrane
2. Caving In – Emetics
3. Dinosaur Vaccum – Monster Magnet