European Rocket Fuel

No.219, aired June 12, 2013. Blake’s Europe read with Ana-Maria Avram’s two epic desert pieces. The audiobook of Ezekiel with Acid Blues Project. A trump of doom for the urban dunes.

Part 1

1. Answer Me - Satanatras
2. Winds Of The Desert – Ana-Maria Avram
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Black Betty – Spiderbait
5. Going To New York City – Acid Blues Project
6. Sweatin To The Gallows – Kathleen Turner Overdrive

Part 2

1. Rocket Fuel – Spiral Beach
2. Dig This – Acid Blues Project
3. Voices Of The Desert – Ana-Maria Avram
4. Astro Girls – Spiral Beach
5. Wild And Fuzzy - Satanatras

Acousmatic Provoker

No.218, aired June 5, 2013. Right before I went on air one week earlier (Wednesday, May 29), I realized I had the wrong CDs in my hand - instead of the planned selections, I was holding some extras I had brought along, and in briefly wondering what kind of show I could create with only those five CDs, I experienced a moment of creative freedom – thus this follow-up program.

Here are the five CDs:
Minute Album - Emetics
Sex Mad – Nomeansno
Primipara - Static Eyesore
New Hot Spirits - Tangiers
Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life: Because Your Life Has Meaning - by Rav Michael Laitman PHD

No, I did not limit the show entirely to these five items. In the first place, I got bored of Michael Laitman’s audiobook, and secondly, I found Static Eyesore’s minimal electronic music could not carry the program’s entire instrumental requirement. The answer to both deficiencies was Iancu Dumitrescu – an interview text from Cosmic Orgasm: The Music Of Iancu Dumitrescu, a new book by Unkant press, edited by Andy Wilson, which had arrived at my house that day; and Harryphonies (Epsilon), a 19-minute work for soloists and orchestra from Dumitrescu’s ED MN 1003.

Part 1

1. No Fkuicgn – Nomeansno
2. Gravel Villain – Emetics
3. Red Stone Rocks – Tangiers
4. Mju 16 – Emetics
5. Upon Jade Flute – Static Eyesore -- Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life
6. Dead Bob – Nomeansno
7. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
8. Wreckless Drivers – Emetics
9. Keep The Living Bodies Warm – Tangiers
10. Sporin, The Destructor Sun – Static Eyesore -- Iancu Dumitrescu – Acousmatic Provoker – Interview by Josh Ronsen, Gilles Peyret, Serge Leroy
11. Shocked – Tangiers

Part 2

1. Sex Mad – Nomeansno
2. Harryphonies (Epsilon) – Iancu Dumitrescu / Orchestre National De Chambre De Roumaine -- Iancu Dumitrescu – Acousmatic Provoker – Interview by Josh Ronsen, Gilles Peyret, Serge Leroy
3. Love Thang – Nomeansno
4. Air Traffic Control – Tristan Psionic -- Iancu Dumitrescu – Acousmatic Provoker – Interview by Josh Ronsen, Gilles Peyret, Serge Leroy

To Fly Where No Pigeon Has Flown Before!

No.217, aired May 29, 2013. With a reading of Colin Smith’s Desprit, from Carbonated Bippies! (Nomados, 2012), and more passages from Charles Darwin’s The Origin Of Species (Tantor audiobook ed., read by David Case). Episode title references a line in Carbonated Bippies – at page 20, with “pigeon” substituted for “Seagull” – and a notice on a window at the landing between the 2nd & 3rd floor of the old GMC Building (where CJTR’s studio and offices are) saying to keep the window closed, as a pigeon had gotten into the building. Fittingly, Darwin, through Case, lectures at length on wild & domestic pigeons. It may be worth mentioning that Smith’s poem Desprit, at pg.8, contains a reference to a pigeon (or a dove rather, which to a naturalist is no more than a white pigeon, despite the symbolic resonance of colour) – “May the Seven Doves rest on your shoulders.”

Part 1

1. Race Riot – D.O.A.
2. Lettre A Un Ami – Denis Gougeon -- Desprit – Colin Smith
3. Into The Void – Monster Magnet
4. Nazi Training Camp – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Slave To My Dick – Subhumans
2. l’Odyssee d’Alfred Le Serpent – Myke Roy – Desprit (con’t) – Colin Smith
3. I Want More – Monster Magnet
4. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
5. 48 Hours In A Resolute Atmosphere – Hession/Wilkinson/Fell
6. Communication Breakdown – D.O.A.
7. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans

Creation Creating Is Creator

No.216, aired May 22, 2013, with live readings of two theses from Guy Debord’s Society Of The Spectacle (see notes in playlist), and passages from the audiobook edition of Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life: Because Your Life Has Meaning, by Rav Michael Laitman PHD, replete with references to “Figure 4”, etc., which I imagine must be referring to the sound figures created by Sun Ra & Burro, as there are no print materials in the CD package.

If I had pre-listened to the Laitman CD, I would have included some poetry by Robert Betteridge, who wrote, in Poem No.7 of a cosmic word horde called “Polar Perambulations” –

THERE ARE NONE
THERE ARE NOT
      ANY
THAT ARE NOT
      A PART
OF THE “THAT”
      THAT IS
THAT IS THE “IS”
THAT IS ISING
FOR
CREATION CREATING
       IS CREATOR
CREATOR CREATING
       IS CREATION
THE ALL IN ONE
THE ONE IN ALL
        EVOLVING

Which, like the poetry of Sun Ra, is a less stageist, more concise statement of macro/micro cosmic creative wholeness. Guy Debord steps in to remind us of the historical basis for class-based separation of creation & creator under capitalism, revealing Laitman’s “steps” as class struggle.

A correction: I attributed the quote “everything is possible, nothing is permitted” to William S. Burroughs. That quote is my own, although a quick google search confirms it is far from original. The Burroughs quote I was thinking of, which appears in various places in his writing, is "Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted." Now I wonder what’s the relationship between Burroughs and Burro. Draw your own conclusions, space traveller.

This episode receives a “Best Episode Ever” nomination from the religious wing of the Universal Inventory Of Existence.

Part 1

1. MAD – Napalm Death
2. Gobots Giver – Emetics
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Septui 2 – Emetics
5. Diving Death – Napalm Death
6. Chelsea Boys – Burro -- Thesis No.24 – Guy Debord
7. The Magic City – Sun Ra

Part 2

1. The Magic City (con’t) – Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra
2. Alpha Punk – Ripcordz
3. Burnt Sonic Toast – Burro -- Thesis No.25 – Guy Debord
4. Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

4th Anniversary Special

No.210, aired November 14, 2012, between episodes numbered 192 and 194, but was never blogged until now. Then I realized there was no. 193 so used that number for a different episode, then discovered this one when sorting my papers, so it gets to be no 210. Featuring bands I had never heard of before the past 12 months, plus tracks from Frank Zappa’s Lather, the CD that inspired Naval Aviation In Audio’s violent approach to musical genre.

Part 1

1. New Rock Kritic – Skull Kontrol
2. VAP DIST For Orchestra, Mvt.1 -- More Delicious Prey – Maggie O’Sullivan
3. Honey Don’t You Want A Man Like Me – Frank Zappa
4. Hell Is Other People – Contaminate
5. Maladaptive – Metallic Taste Of Blood -- What Is Behind That Where The Curtains That CCCCC Urtain Gently Blowing? – Maggie O’Sullivan
6. Punky’s Whips – Frank Zappa

Part 2

1. Two Winds – Rake
2. Combing The Desert – Pigment Vehicle
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Let’s Set Up North On Fire – Sailboats Are White
5. The Purple Lagoon – Frank Zappa -- Prelude To Through The Eastern Gate – Alexina Louie / Erica Goodman
6. 1,000 Cigarettes - MSTRKRFT

The Crest And Crash Of Waves On The Broken Surface Of Flax

No.215, aired May 15, 2013. Featured performances of Matthew Hall’s Hyaline (Black Rider Press, 2013), with music by Iancu Dumitrescu (the subject of a new book titled Cosmic Orgasm, edited by Andy Wilson for Unkant press), Grant Green, and Bill Laswell.
 
Part 1
1. Eisenhower & The Hippies – U-J3RK5
2. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
3. Television Man – Man Or Astroman?
4. Grand Ourse – Iancu Dumitrescu -- Anointment / Seasons – Matthew Hall
5. Planet Collision – Man Or Astroman?
6. Disco Sucks – D.O.A.

Part 2

1. Real Thing – The Pointed Sticks
2. I Am Somebody – Grant Green -- Artiface – Matthew Hall
3. Mystery Train – The Scissors
4. Music Is Your Body – The Moral Lepers
5. Cybotron – Bill Laswell -- Eclogue (Killdeer) / A Pattern Of Settlement / The Woods / Homestead: A Palimpsest / Six Preludial Songs Called Captivity – Matthew Hall
6. March Of The Crabs – Anvil
7. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains

Death To The Sickoids

No.214, aired May 1, 2013, with more of Charles Darwin’s The Origin Of Species and Ornette Coleman’s 1961 album Free Jazz. Evolution is envisioned as world-wide collective improvization – with a running death theme. The Subhumans title “Death To The Sickoids” (not to mention their band name) becomes a joke on “natural” selection, an argument for human agency in evolution – rather than the losers in competition for survival, the “sickoids” are the ruling class, a class that will cease to exist in an time of socialist revolution.

Part 1

1. Death To The Sickoids – Subhumans
2. Free Jazz – Ornette Coleman

Part 2

1. Free Jazz (con’t) – Ornette Coleman
2. Dead Bob – Nomeansno
3. Naval Aviation In Art? – Frank Zappa
4. Death Was Too Kind – Subhumans
5. The Death Of Time – Secret Saucer -- Neigbourhood In A Brain Cell - Colin Smith
6. Pissed Off ... With Good Reason – Subhumans
7. Sailin’ On – Bad Brains