Episode 16 - Jarboe, the Living

Swans: Swallow You from “New Mind” (1987) - [4.16] Byla and Jarboe: 15:35 from “Viscera” (2007) [16.31] – Swans: Can’t Find my way Home from “The Burning World” (1989) [4.48] – Jarboe: Mouth of Flames from “Mahakali” (2008) [4.43] - Swans: Hypogirl from “Soundtracks for the Blind” (1996) [2.44] – Jarboe: Mississippi from “Anhedoniac” (1998) [1.44] – Swans: Children of God from “Children of God” (1986) [4.22] – Jarboe: Scarification from “Disburden Discipline” (2000) [5.03] – Swans: Mother/Father from “The Great Annihilator” (1994) [4.07] – Jarboe: My Buried Child from “Sacrificial Cake” (1995) [2.11] – Swans: Greed from “Greed/Holy Money” (1985) [6:12]

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Episode 15 - Persistence of Time

Iron Maiden: The Ides of March/Wratchild from “Killers” (1980) [3.99] - Black Sabbath: The Sign of the Southern Cross/Heaven and Hell (continued) from “Live/Evil” (1982) [7.16] - W.A.S.P.: Inside the Electric Circus from “Inside the Electric Circus” (1986) [3.26] - Testament: Over the Wall from “The Legacy” (1987) [4.06] - Scorpions: Big City Nights from “Love at First Sting” (1984) [4.10] - Alice Cooper: Teenage Frankenstein from “Constrictor” (1986) [3.32] - Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love from “Led Zeppelin II” (1969) [5.34] - Van Halen: Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love from “Van Halen II” (1978) [3.50] - Judas Priest: Beyond the Realms of Death from “Stained Class” (1978) [6.51] - Metallica: Master of Puppets from “Master of Puppets” (1986) [8.36] – Dillinger Escape Plan: Unretrofied from “Miss Machine” (2004) [5.37] - Kylesa: Insomnia for Months from “Static Tensions” (2009) [2.04] - Motorhead: Ace of Spades from “Ace of Spades” (1980) [2.49] - Anthrax: Got the Time from “Persistence of Time” (1990) [2.44]

This episode of Complete Communion Podcast is dedicated to my youth. Most of this music is what I was listening to when 17, and I'm still proud of it.

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Episode 14 - Explosions in the Sky

Godspeed You Black Emperor: East Hastings from “F#A#Infinity” (1998) [17.58] – John Fahey: How Green Was My Valley from “The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death” () [2.18] – Trans Am: Ragged Agenda from “Red Line” (2000) [3.40] – Tim Buckley: Starsailor from “Starsailor” (1970) [4.35] – Don Caballero: Cold Knees (In April) from “Don Caballero 2” (1995) [10.59] – Robbie Basho: Seal of the Blue Lotus from “The Seal of the Blue Lotus” (1965) [7.10] - Fugazi: Link Track from “Instrument Soundtrack” (1999) [1.26] – Shellac: Song of the Minerals from “At Action Park” (1994) [4.24] – Minutemen: Nature Without Man from “Double Nickels on the Dime” (1984) [1.46] – Stereolab: The Noise of Carpet from “Emperor Tomato Ketchup” (1996) [3.05] – June of 44: June Leaf from “Tropic and Meridians” (1996) [5.10]

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Episode 13 - Patterns

The Rotkho Chapel

Krzysztof Penderecki: Canticum Canticorun Salomonis (1970/73) [16.52]

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: Cinque Sintesi Radiofoniche from “Musica Futurista – The Art of noises” (1980) [13.08]

Harry Partch: Time of Fun Together from “Delusion of the Fury” (1969) [8.08]

Joan La Barbara and John Cage: Sonnekus from “Singing Through” (1990) [17.08]

Morton Feldman: The Rothko Chapel (1971) [23.47]

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Episode 12 - Signs/Reality Transitions [Pt. 2]

Ryoji Ikeda: + from “+/-“ [10.55] (1996) - Witold Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto (1970) [23.05] - Ryoji Ikeda: - from “+/-“ [6.36] (1996) - Olivier Messiaen: Séquence du Verbe, Cantique Divin (Dieu Présent en lui-meme) from “Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine (1943-1944) [6.46] - Ryoji Ikeda: - from “+/-“ [11.51] (1996) - Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro Pezzi su una Nota Sola II (1959)[4.40] - Ryoji Ikeda: - from “+/-“ [13.24] (1996) - Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry: Les Monstres from “Orphée” [3.25] (1953) - Ryoji Ikeda: +-- from “+/-“ [1.05] (1996)

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Episode 11 – Signs/reality transitions [pt. 1]

Helmut Lachenmann: Dal Niente (Intérieur III) for clarinet solo (1970) [14.21]

Ryoji Ikeda: + from “+/-“ (1996) [2.50]

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zeitmasse for five woodwinds (1955-56) [12.51]

Ryoji Ikeda: + from “+/-“ [5.57] (1996)

Luigi Nono: stage music from Ermittlung (1965) [22.12]

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Episode 10 – They say don’t worry (for James Baldwin)

Curtis Mayfield: Don’t Worry (if there’s a Hell Below) from “Curtis” (1970) [7.51] – Terry Callier: Bowlin’ Green from “Just Can’t Help Myself” (1974) [7.57] - Serge Gainsbourg: Brigade des Stups from “Aux Armes Et Caetera” (1979) [2.05] – Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come from “Ain’t That Good News” (1964) [3.14] – Pop Group: Don’t Call me Pain from “Y” (1979) [5.35] – Nina Simone: Backlash Blues from “Protest Anthology” (2008) [3.03] – Al Green: Listen from “Let’s Stay Together” (1971) [2.30] – Betty Davis: If I’m in Luck I might get Picked up from “Betty Davis” (1973) [5.00] – Laura Nyro: Eli’s Comin’ from “Eli and the 13th Confession” (1968) [3.58] – Booker T. and the Mg’s: Green Onions from “Green Onions” (1962) [2.55] – Carla Bozulich: Baby That’s the Creeps from “Evangelista” (2006) [5.55] – Nancy Sinatra w/ Lee Hazelwood: Some Velvet Morning (1967) [3.38] – Led Zeppelin: No Quarter from “The Song Remains The Same” (1976) [12.29] – Doris Duke: By the Time I get to Phoenix from “The Swamp Dog Sessions and More” (2005) [4.01] – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: I had a Dream, Joe from “Henry’s Dream” (1992) [3.42] – Johnny Cash: God’s Gonna Cut You Down from “American V: A Hundred Highways” (2003) [2.38]

James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.

Baldwin's essays, such as the collection Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, vis-à-vis their inevitable if unnameable tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing. Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976).

His novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks yet also of male homosexuals—depicting as well some internalized impediments to such individuals' quest for acceptance—namely in his second novel, Giovanni's Room (1956), written well before the equality of homosexuals was widely espoused in America. Baldwin's best-known novel is his first, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953).

[from Wikipedia]

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