Hour One

Donovan - The Song Of Wandering Aengus – HMS Donovan (1971)
Lyrics from the poem of the same name by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, written in 1897

Pink Floyd - Chapter 24 - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
Song lyrics paraphrased the text from Chapter 24 of the I Ching (The Book of Changes.) -- most likely the Richard Wilhelm translation. The albums title is taken from Chapter 7 of Kenneth Grahame's, The Wind in the Willows,

Nico – These Days - Chelsea Girl (1967)
The song was written by Jackson Browne and his demo was shopped around as I’ve Been Out Walking. Nico was the first to record it.

Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band – Live @ Cow Palace Daly City, CA (12/31/1976)
This was the second of the show’s three encores.

David Crosby – Laughing - If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971)
Crosby sang and played guitar and this track featured his friends Jerry Garcia on pedal steel, Phil Lesh on bass, Bill Kreutzmann on drums, and Graham Nash & Joni Mitchell on backing vocals.

Gong – Percolations > Love is How U Make It – Angels Egg (1973)
This album is the second of the Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy of albums.

King Crimson – Sheltering Sky- Discipline (1981)
Song title is taken from Paul Bowles 1949 novel "Sheltering Sky." The title is again referenced by the band in the lyrics to their song Walking on Air from their 1995 album Thrak. Drummer/percussionist Bill Bruford revealed that the distinctive percussion instrument that anchors this track “… is a “toy” version of an African log drum, or slit drum. It has eight tines, or tongues, is made of California redwood, and costs about $25 in a Hollywood tourist shop.”

David Byrne – In The Future – Music for "The Knee Plays” (1985)
The music on this album was composed for Robert Wilson’s Opera, The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down. Wilson coined the term "knee play" to describe an interlude between scenes, for the opera Einstein on the Beach. This massive five-act Opera also features music from Hans Peter Kuhn, Philip Glass and Gavin Bryars, although it has never been performed in its entirety.

They Might Be Giants – Mammal – Apollo 18 (1998)
They were only 17 Apollo missions—Apollo 18 was scheduled but cancelled. The album was also associated with International Space Year, for which They Might Be Giants were declared the official "musical ambassadors" by NASA.

Philip Glass – Islands – Glassworks (1982)
The composer is quoted as saying that Glassworks was intended to introduce my music to a more general audience than had been familiar with it up to then.” The cassette release proudly stated that it was "specially mixed for your personal cassette player"

Pink Floyd – The Crying Song – Soundtrack from the film More played and composed by the Pink Floyd (1969)
This was the first Pink Floyd album without founding member Syd Barrett. The film More was the directorial debut of Barbet Schroeder and the 1972 Pink Floyd album Obscured by Clouds was based on their the soundtrack to Schroeder’s second film, La Vallée.

Clogs – Last Song - The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton (2010)
Vocals here are from Matt Berninger, Clogs guitarist Bryce Dessner is a band mate of Berninger’s in the group The National. This Clogs album features guest performances by Aaron Dessner, Bryce’s twin brother and also a member of The National.

Hour Two

Basso Bongo:Robert Black & Amy Knowles–Big and Cheap– State of the Bass (1992)
Robert Black is a founding member of Bang On A Can.

Bang on a Can – Composer: Louis Andriessen – Hout (wood) - Industry (1995)

Martin Bresnick – Be Just – Works of A Poor Music (1995)
This piece is performed by Bang on a Can Allstars.

Robert Black – Composer: Orlando Jacinto Garcia – Piece no. 1 for double bass and Tape – State of the Bass (1992)

Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes – Fog Tropes • Gradual Requiem • Gambuh (1988)
John Adams is the conductor. Ingram Marshall said of this piece -- “In 1979 … I went around the San Francisco Bay and recorded a number of different fog horns. A kind of tape collage resulted, using not only fog horns but other sea sounds, falsetto keenings and gambuh (a Balinese flute). Much electronic processing and tape manipulation were visited upon the raw sounds. The idea of adding brass music as an overlay - or a trope, if you will - came when John Adams … suggested that "Fog" might benefit from some ‘live’ horns. A lot of people are reminded of San Francisco when they hear this piece, but not I. To me it is just about fog, and being lost in the fog. The brass players should sound as if they were off in a raft floating in the middle of a mist-enshrouded bay.”

Brian Eno –Through Hollow Lands (for Harold Budd) – Before and after Science (1977)
Robert Wyatt (listed as Shirley Williams) is credited on the album for "time" and "brush timbales" on Through Hollow Lands. The title of this piece is taken from a line in the poem, The Song Of Wandering Aengus by W. B. Yeats. (Yeah, it’s the same poem Donovan used at the beginning of the show.)

Grateful Dead – Little Nemo In Nightland (excerpt) - Infrared Roses (1991)
This album is a collection of live improvisations by the band from 1989-1990.

Ingram Marshall –Gradual Requiem Part 1- Fog Tropes • Gradual Requiem • Gambuh (1988)
Ingram Marshall is credited with synthesizers and voice; Foster Reed –mandolin.