On October 5, 2004, Dig Up The Roots featured a program of DADA, Futurist, and Surrealist recordings from Tristan Tzara, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, and many others.. Love them or hate them, these artistic mavericks and malcontents of the early Twentieth century blew apart the traditional worlds of artist and audience, creating a foundation for generations of freaks and weirdos who followed to destroy rational thought in their own ways. It may be a stretch to call some of these recordings music… but that’s why radio dials spin. Interviews, Noise machines AKA Intonomuri , Sound poetry and word bending, dissonant neo classical music. This was a very enjoyable show to do and stretched the definitions of Roots music.

Here is the playlist:

Luigi Russolo
Veglio di uno Citta – 1914
dada FOR NOW A Collection of Futurist and DADA Sound Works
ARK Records DOVE 4

Antonio Russolo
Corale ane Serenata – 1921
dada FOR NOW

Filippo Tommaso Marintti
Definizione di Futurismo – 1924
FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED
Sub Rosa CD 012-19

Arthur Honegger
Pacifica 231 – 1923
dada FOR NOW

Hugo Ball
Gadji Beri Bimba & Seepferdchen und Flugfische – 1916
dada FOR NOW

Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck
L’amiral cherche une maison a louer – 1916
dada FOR NOW

Luigi Grandi
Cavalli + Acciaio – 1935
FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED

Filippo Tommaso Marintti
La Battaglia di Adriamopoli
FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED

Marcel Duchamp
La Mariee Mise a Nu…MeMe – 1980
FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED

Richard Huelsenbeck
Inventing Dada – 1959
FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED

Tristan Tzara
Dada into Surrealism – 1959
FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED

Kurt Schwitters
Cigarren – 1921
dada FOR NOW

Kurt Schwitters
The real disuda of the nightmare – 1946
dada FOR NOW

Raul Haussman
Soundrel – 1946
dada FOR NOW

Wyndham Lewis
End Of Enemy Interlude – 1940
FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED

Guillaume Apollinaire
Le Pont Mirabeau – 1912
FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED

Hugo Ball
Karawane, Wolken Katzen und Pfauen – 1916
dada FOR NOW

Jean Cocteau
La Toison d’Or + Les Voleurs d’Enfants – 1929
FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED

Brion Gysin
Interview

William S Burroughs
Origin Of Cut-Ups & Creepy Letter
The Best Of William S Burroughs VOL 4
Giorno Poetry Systems

Thomas Schmit
No. 13 from Sanitas-200 Theatre Pieces – 1962
Tellus#14 FluxTellus

George Brecht & James Tenny with George Maciunas
Entrance(excerpt)……Exit(excerpt) – 1962

The show ended with Talking Heads I Zimbra, which is a Hugo Ball poem, but this is not included on the recording. However, as a bonus and just when you thought the world was getting safe again for weirdos, there is this to show you how weird the main stream can be: Marie Osmond reading DADA poetry…