Minute Men Blather Routine

No.201, aired January 30, 2013, with further readings from J.H. Prynne’s Poems. The 2003 poem “Biting The Air” was continued from episode 200, then two portions published in 1971 were read: “Night Square,” and “On Sanguine Fire” from the book Brass.

Part 1

1. Fuel’s For Fools – Emetics
2. POWMIA – Brutal Knights
3. Pounds of Squelch – Emetics
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Free For All – Art Blakey & Friends -- Biting The Air (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
6. Kontakte (Teil 2) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Biting The Air (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
7. Want Action – Kill Cheerleader
8. Kontakte  (Teil 2, con’t) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Biting The Air (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
9. Bad Habit – Kill Cheerleader

Part 2

1. Kontakte  (Teil 2, con’t) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Night Square – J.H. Prynne
2. Find Your Own Way Home – Kill Cheerleader
3. Kontakte II (Teil 2, con’t) – Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Night Square (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
4. One By One – Art Blakey & Friends -- On Sanguine Fire – J.H. Prynne
5. Gobot’s Giver – Emetics
6. Living By Yourself – Brutal Knights
7. Septui 2 – Emetics
8. Gypsey – Art Blakey -- On Sanguine Fire (con’t) – J.H. Prynne
9. Why The Beard – Brutal Knights

Whipping Toy Forms

No.200, aired January 23, 2013, with readings from J.H. Prynne’s 2003 poem Biting The Air.
 
The first half of the program was devoted to a musical thot experiment in which I played tracks from GWAR’s 1988 Hell-O alternating with 3 pieces from John Colrane’s 1959 Giant Steps.
 
The ear loves the unexpected, and is easy to fool. In marketing terms, Giant Steps is jazz, merely: society music, co-opted, recuperated, safe – & in the past that is how I have received it. Even for jazz musicians Giant Steps is considered an “exercise” – something to master & then move on from. And the hard-core habit can also be a great deadener, even the monstrous perversity of GWAR warms into a fuzzy bath if not lifted out of its sci-fi punk/metal niche market.
 
So I am mixing the two. Is this epicurian eclectisism, the aesthete requires variety in his consumption? The contrast brings out the distinct flavours? Yes, but more than that. The aural miscegenation spurs actual thot.
 
In Love with a Dead Dog is a depraved joke that nevertheless follows the conventions of a love song, invokes those cliches, laughs at them. At the climax, the love object dies, then the heavy metal riff returns & order is restored. This is illness. Then the drums at the beginning of the Coltrane quartet’s Countown dramatize the moment of illness. Coltrane’s Tenor sax appears and I can hear it as breakdown, madness. In the GWAR context I can hear the frantic energy of the players. It sounds insanely fast compared to what jazz should be - jazz on speed. Occasional conventional jazz runs embedded in the session sound parodic. This segues into GWAR's Slutman City, which, after the warm accoustic aura, sounds ugly and threatening. Something really awful is happening - another gruesome GWAR character arrives at a city of life without shame, & again, GWAR delivers on the violent promise of rock. But these sleezy riffs & perverse anthems would be nearly inaudible if the CD was played straight through. Coltrane’s Spiral comes on but the ear is still living in the slums of Slutman City - the jazz band is playing in a club, but the horror show is still going. The music is jazz, but it is describing, or accompanying, some abominable act in an aggressively detached way – is that possible? The band is telling a story about something very human and very touching. There is a musical argument here as well. The musical mind keeps wandering, then catches itself again. Hiddeous monsters are dancing in an elegant ballroom. Are they feasting on human flesh? Am I hearing this quartet’s underlying anger, or is it only my own fantasy? It is music for a TV show or movie. Quick-cutting, tons of action into a small space, a drama as memory-dream sequence. Then a slower GWAR track, War Toy, feels epic, like I have been listening for a hundred years. It describes a toy, but it sounds like the depraved narrator has a child slave. The track seems like a review of something, the toy or the GWAR album itself, or rather GWAR's stage show & mythos - “Let's all go drink and kill and fart ... Now sure it's fun but is it art?"
 
The above was written the weekend before my program, when I plugged in the GWAR disc, but thanks to my media player’s shuffle feature heard instead “Countdown” from Giant Steps, and was shocked. During the program, I read poetry by J.H. Prynne that added a hole nuther level of nasty to the mix, but I haven’t had time to make detailed notes, except that the song “War Toy” is introduced with the following words, read at the end of “Spiral” – “You didn’t know that oh really how extended even so familar / whipping toy forms as a habit too lapped across its place setting nroe sougth nor bought fancy never braved: infinity”
 
Part 1

1. Ein Stitcher – Emetics
2. Captain Crunch – GWAR
3. Cousin Mary – John Coltrane
4. I’m In Love (With A Dead Dog) – GWAR
5. Countownd – John Coltrane
6. Slutman City – GWAR
7. Spiral – John Coltrane
8. War Toy - GWAR
 
Part 2

1. Obawa The Collar Boy – Emetics
2. 10-30 Train – Ugly Ducklings
3. You’d Better Register – Static Eyesore
4. Creatures Of Habit – Contaminate
5. Lil’ Copulator – Emetics
6. This Means War – Contaminate
7. Pinch It – Static Eyesore
8. Freakin – Emetics
9. Just In Case You Wonder – Ugly Ducklings
10. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
11. Jinx The Larynx – Emetics
12. Hell Is Other People – Contaminate
13. I Need Your Love – Ugly Ducklings
14. Barry Bongwater – Contaminate
15. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Hardcore Jollies Utopica With Tencer Tentacles

No.199, aired January 16, 2013, with live performance of New York poet Michael Tencer’s latest verbal compositions & a few passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses on audiobook. Main accompanying event, musically speaking, was Luigi Nono’s La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura played simultaneously with 4 percussion pieces by Iannis Xenakis. Best episode ever (& I mean it this time!).

Part 1

1. Loose Heels – White Lung
2. Hardcore Jollies – Funkadelic
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Hand It To The Devil – Sailboats Are White
5. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, For Violin & 8 Magnetic Tapes – Luigi Nono -- Okho / Rebond B – Iannis Xenakis

Part 2

1. La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, For Violin & 8 Magnetic Tapes (continued) – Luigi Nono -- Rebond A / Psappha – Iannis Xenakis
2. Who Says A Funk Band Can’t Play Rock? – Funkadelic
3. 1,000 Cigarettes – MSTRKRFT

Rake Cancelled Rungs Of The Backbone Vault

No.198, aired January 9, 2013, with readings from Stuart Calton’s poem “The Torn Instructions For No Trebuchet Digest Part One” accompanied by two Canadian improvizing trios: Rake and Simon Abbott & Bent Spoon Duo.

Part 1

1. Five Songs, Op.4 – IV – Anton Webern

2. Calling – Rake -- poetry by Stuart Calton

3. Call Me Rover – Skull Kontrol

4. Five Songs, Op.4 – I – Anton Webern

5. Aristocrat – White Lung

6. There – Rake -- poetry by Stuart Calton

7. Five Songs, Op.4 – II – Anton Webern

8. Falling - Rake -- poetry by Stuart Calton

9. How The East Was Lost – Sailboats Are White

Part 2

1. Saigon You Crazy Diamond (part 2) - Simon Abbott & Bent Spoon Duo -- poetry by Stuart Calton –- 3 of Webern’s Five Songs, Op.4 played simultaneously with SA & BSD: song III (at beginning), song IV (midway), song V (end)

2. Camoflage – Skull Kontrol

3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa

4. Satan Is Jesus To Me – Skull Kontrol

5. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Holiday in Babylon

No.197, aired January 2, 2013. Featuring Michael Tencer’s Holiday In New York, Stuart Calton reading Out To Lunch’s F’Luke, and the complete Burnt Weenie Sandwich album by the Mothers of Invention, whose immaculate sandwich structure has been adopted in many forms in the programming strategy of NAIA. Title is a reference to the Book of Daniel, in which Hebrew youth exiled in Babylon become reluctant prophets and enjoy the favours of the king. Unplanned serendipitous moment was hearing the line from F’Luke “pushing us into a new dimension” to the accompaniment of Forbidden Dimension’s Invisible Dimension.

Part 1

1. I Do Nothing – Brutal Knights
2. Igor’s Boogie, Phase One – The Mothers Of Invention
3. Atlanta – White Lung
4. Overture To A Holiday In Berlin – The Mothers Of Invention
5. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans -- Holiday In New York – Michael Tencer
6. Theme From Burnt Weenie Sandwich – The Mothers Of Invention -- Book of Daniel Chapter 1
7. Firing Squad – Subhumans
8. Igor’s Boogie, Phase Two – The Mothers Of Invention
9. I Hate Chores – Brutal Knights
10. Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown – The Mothers Of Invention -- Book of Daniel Chapter 11
11. Bad Choice – Brutal Knights
12. Aybe Sea – The Mothers Of Invention

Part 2

1. WPLJ – The Mothers Of Invention
2. Little House I Used To Live In – The Mothers Of Invention
3. Invisible Dimension – Forbidden Dimension -- F'Luke – poem by Out To Lunch read by Stuart Calton
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. Valerie – The Mothers Of Invention

Horns At War With Santa

No.193, aired December 26, 2012 [episode number is out of sequence because I forgot to use 193 and didn’t want to renumber].

A continuation of the End of the World theme, with Chapters 7-10 from the Book of Daniel and the second half of THF Drenching’s Tape Team J19, which made the baby Jesus smile.

Part 1.

1. It’s After The End Of The World – Sun Ra & the Intergalactic Research Arkestra
2. This Is The End – SNFU
3. We’ll Wait For You – Sun Ra & the Intergalactic Research Arkestra
4. Joy Ride – SNFU
5. TTJ11 – TTJ14 – THF Drenching
6. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
7. Bodies In The Wall – SNFU

Part 2

1. Single – THF Drenching
2. Get Off Your Ass – SNFU
3. TTJ16 – TTJ18 – THF Drenching
4. Journey Through Outer Darkness – Sun Ra & the Intergalactic Research Arkestra
5. Rand – THF Drenching
6. Loser At Life/Loser At Death - SNFU

Don’t They Know It’s End Of The World!?

No.196, aired December 19, 2012, with two simultaneous audiobooks: Climate Watch Audio Series: Impacts, and The Book of Daniel, from the Commuters Audio Bible.

Part 1

1. The Night Nothing Became Everything – Nomeansno
2. A House Of Beauty – Sun Ra
3. Ragnarok – GWAR
4. The Sun Myth – Sun Ra
5. Waiting For You – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Slaughter In A Grave – Voivod
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. The End Of All Things – Nomeansno
4. Cosmic Chaos – Sun Ra
5. Crush, Kill, Destroy - GWAR