Compiled by Nannette Drake Oldenbourg (nannette@cape.com)

Audio and Other Products by AIR Members
For Gift-Giving and Your Own Listening: Members of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) offer varied and provocative fare for retail sale. Browse here for every thinking and toe-tapping friend on your gift list. (Please see the Member Directory and Member websites at www.airmedia.org for information about producers' professional services.)

Comedy

From Thomas Lopez and ZBS:
90-Second Cellphone Chillin' Theatre
90-second stories for download. Everything takes place on cell phones, in cemeteries, dentist offices, and other scary places. The funny, sick, tasteless, demented, Shorty Stories include "The Secret Smile of the Moaning Lisa," "The Hermits Horrible Smelly Secret," "The X Fillings, Dental Case #122, 'An Odious Extraction,'" "All My Cells Have Phones!" ... and more than 50 others.
In addition, the ZBS catalog holds more than 100 longer programs: Humor, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Political, Spiritual, etc.
Visit http://www.zbs.org/.

From Larry Josephson:
BobandRay.com (new name) has added a 22nd distinct CD to its Bob & Ray Classic Comedy collection. Bob & Ray's humor is timeless. These CDs make great gifts for younger listeners who discover and love the pair, as well as those who remember the offbeat characters and parodies. The extensively experienced Larry Josephson explains, "Our Bob and Ray project is not really a business; it does not make money. It's a labor of love, a personal obsession to keep Bob & Ray alive and available to you and to future generations." Each CD is unique, without repeated bits.
Visit http://www.bobandray.com/ and click on catalog.
Or call (212) 595-1837.

Dark Fantasy

From Henry Howard:
Warm and Blue Green as Teal Blood
Join master storyteller Thomas E. Fuller for a twilight journey down the Dark River as it runs through the Southland, hungry for the Gulf.
"The Dark River moves broad and slow, all warm and blue green as teal blood. And as it moves, it picks up tings like towns and ships and people. And Stories. Especially stories."
Fuller was head writer of the Atlanta Radio Theater Company until his death in 2002, taking influence of Poe and Lovecraft into the realm of modern dark fantasy. Produced by AIR's Henry Howard, Atlanta, GA.
5 stories, 68 minutes.
CD: $15, + $4 shipping.
Contact Henry Howard, at audiotheater@spamcop.net.

Documentary

From Dmae Roberts:
The Story of Ing (Doc) Hay
Produced by Dmae Roberts, this documentary tells the unusual and significant story of Doc Hay and his business partner and friend Lung On. The two ran the Kam Wah Chung store and medical practice in a small Eastern Oregon town shortly after the Gold Rush and into the 1950's. Unlike their counterparts in other parts of the country, where lynches and massacres of Chinese immigrants were the norm, these two men were respected members of the community and are still remembered by John Day residents.
Dmae Roberts, producer of 400 features, is executive producer of Crossing East, the first Asian American history series on public radio. Media Rites "promotes acceptance among diverse communities through the arts, education and media projects."
CD: $10, plus + $3 shipping.
Visit http://www.mediarites.org/store_dochay.htm
Or send checks to: MediaRites, 104 SE 57th Ave., Portland, OR 97215

From Rhoby Cook and Joseph Orozco:
Dying for Water: Indians, Politics & Dead Fish in the Klamath River Basin
"In the fall of 2002, disease raged through the warm and shallow water of the once-mighty Klamath River. Within days, 68,000 adult Chinook Salmon perished as they tried to return home to spawn. The story of this event flows through past and present, through the hearts, voices and songs of Tribal people who consider the fish their relatives, to the highest levels of government and corporate power."
What do you do if people don't agree that fish need water? See reviews at prx.org.
A Native radio documentary, part of the California Indian Radio Project, a co-production of Northern California Cultural Communications (NC3) (http://www.flickerfeather.org/) and KIDE-FM, Hoopa Tribal Radio (http://www.kidefm.org/).
58 minutes.
CD: $8 ($5 donation, plus + postage).
To purchase, contact Rhoby Cook at rhoby@pcweb.net.

From Barbara Bernstein:
Salmonlands
Without the salmon there would be no Pacific Northwest as we know it. Producer Barbara Bernstein takes us on a journey into the land of salmon, showing why they are so significant to the culture and community of the Pacific Northwest, and what it will take to keep them from disappearing. This hour-long documentary looks at how the transformation of the once wild Columbia River into an industrialized waterway destroyed both salmon runs and Native American cultural sites. It explores the connections between Native people's efforts to restore their fisheries and their cultural resources.
Hear it online at Salmonlands: http://www.wholecommunitiesradio.org/salmon web/salmonlands.html.
Other productions include 3 CDs in the series Radio Tales for the Road: Transformational Journeys Through Time, Space, and Memory, combining radio theater, documentary, and music. CD: $12. each, Checks payable to Feather & Fin Productions, P.O. Box 82777, Portland, OR 97202.
For more information, call (503) 235-5036.

Arts

From Angela Elam:
New Letters on the Air
A CD or cassette collection of New Letters on the Air will inspire anyone interested in the craft of writing and how life is transformed into art. Produced since 1977, this half-hour radio show features some of the world's best creative writers. The archives include Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award winners, and many other major prize recipients. All 800 programs contain readings by writers, and most, since the mid-1980s, contain interviews. The producer and host is Angela Elam.
30-minutes each.
CD: $13; cassettes and quantity discounts available.
Search archives, listen to the two latest programs, or order at: http://www.newletters.org/OnTheAir.asp.

Music

From David Gans:
*Solo Electric
The song "Who Will Save Us from the Saved," presented here on acoustic guitar, may become an anthem. Other cuts demonstrate how, with the aid of a digital recording device called the Loop Station, Gans can build his musical accompaniment in real time to a multi-layered sonic environment that sometimes leads to dancing. "He's not just a one-man band, he's the future of singer-songwriting," said Wired Mmagazine's Steve Silberman. "Some of the most exciting stuff emanating from one guy with a guitar that I've ever seen -- David Gans is the bastard child of Hank Williams, Jackson Browne, and Robert Fripp!" Gans is host and producer of The Grateful Dead Hour. (http://www.gdhour.com) Details, cover art, four complete tracks (MP3), and ordering via PayPal at http://www.dgans.com/perfectible.
Or mail $12 to Perfectible Recordings, 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730.