Citr -- Exploding Head Movies

October primarily means a horror month in the lead to Hallowe'en but with the Vancouver International Film Festival bringing Michael Abels to town for a talk, we'll profile his score to Jordan Peele's latest scary film Nope. We'll also do the usual film listings, tributes to the recently deceases, acts in town and some Iranian noise in support of protestors. 1. James Devane: Sudden Oak Death (Beauty is Useless, 2022) Umeboshi 2. SUNN O))): Troubled Air (Life Metal, 2019) Southern Lord 3. Mama's Broke: October's Lament (Narrow Line, 2022) Free Dirt 4. TV SETS: Gold October (An Embarrassment of Riches, 2022) self-released 5. The Cyrillic Typewriter: Tell All the Poets (Buzz, 2022) JAZ 6. The Feelies: Raised Eyebrows (Crazy Rhythms, 1980) Stiff 7. The Golden Palominos: Omaha (Visions of Excess, 1985) Celluloid 8. Nick Storring: IV (Music from Wéi, 2022) Orange Milk 9. Friend & Lover: Reach Out of the Darkness (Reach Out of the Darkness, 1968) Verve Forecast 10. Coolio: Fantastic Voyage [Timber mix] (

In tribute to French new wave director Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022), we hear an array of music from his definitive Nouvelle Vague films from the 1960s. We also mark the upcoming National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, finally hear the 2022 Polaris Prize winner and prepare for the 41st annual Vancouver International Film Festival starting later this week. 1. Pierre Kwenders: Coupé (José Louis and the Paradox of Love, 2022) Arts & Crafts 2. Sarah Davachi: Vanity of Ages (Two Sisters, 2022) Late Music 3. Thaïs: Banksy (Tout est Parfait: Acte Deux, 2022) Bravo 4. April March: Californian Fall (In Cinerama, 2022) Une Vie/Omnivore 5. Jack Nitzsche: Last Dance (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest OST, 1975) Fantasy 6. Jasmyn: Green Nature (In the Wild, 2022) Anti- 7. Ivan Martishchuk: Kozachok [Dance Song] (Music of Ukraine, 1951) Ethnic Folkways Library 8. Ummagma: Cretu (Compass, 2019) self-released 9. Sudan Archives: Copycat [Broken Notions] (Natural Brown Prom Queen, 2022) Stones Throw 10. Chvrches: Dea

With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022), we pay tribute to her as a person whilst wondering what a monarchy means in the 21st century. We'll profile Alexandre Desplat's score to the 2006 film The Queen as we juggle other queens amongst the usual round of other topics, including some Polaris Prize nominee catch-up -- along with a Waiting for Godot moment for a winner that happened well after airtime -- recent Emmy news and other things going wrong around the world in this dense episode. Giddy up, go pony! Regular podcast subscribers: yes, there are 2 missing episodes based on numbering. The station logging server ran out of memory and the appropriate people who regularly look at it were away so down the road, expect a hybridized Ep. 615 + 616 fusion that tries to replicate both chaotic transmissions. What you hear! 1. Quincy Jones: Britannia & Mr Bridger, If You Please Nº2/God Save the Queen (The Italian Job OST: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition, 2019) Quartet 2. Shandi Sinnamon: Charles in C

In honour of director Wolfgang Petersen (1941-2022), we'll profile music from two of his best known films: 1981's Das Boot and 1984's The Neverending Story. We also survey what's left of August as school starts to return. [Podcasts are currently unavailable so bear with us until the server can sort itself out.] 1. Gaten Matarazzo: Never Ending Story (Stranger Things 3: Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series, 2019) Lakeshore/Invada 2. Kuma: Spahn (Buy the Tools You Need with Time, 2022) self-released 3. Q Lazzarus: Goodbye Horses (2013) All Nations/Garvey 4. Yves Tumor: Jackie (The Asymptotical World EP, 2021) Warp 5. Moat Bells: Missed Cues (Forest City Series: Volume 5, 2022) A Person Disguised as People 6. Kamikaze Nurse: Never Better (Stimuloso, 2022) Mint 7. Megamall: Two Faced [live] (Fishbowl Sessions: Live from CITR/Discorder, 2020) CITR 8. Light Blending In: Fire & Air (2022) self-released 9. Shad: Work [w.Skratch Bastid] (TAO, 2021) Secret City 10. Ouri: Fonction Naturelle (Frame of

This week, we profile Robin Carolan & Sebastian Gainsborough's score to Robert Egger's Viking-inspired 2022 film The Northman. MP3 forthcoming, pending a good old fashioned podcast server technical investigation. 1. Folklore ensemble of the village of Krivonosovka: Picking Berries in the Forest [Summer Berry Picking song] (Ukrainian Music: Anthology of Folk Music, 2011) Melodiya 2. Biosphere: Transfigured Express (Shortwave Memories, 2022) Biophon 3. Four Tops: Standing in the Shadows of Love (Reach Out, 1967) Motown 4. Lamont Dozier: The Picture Will Never Change (Love and Beauty, 1974) Invictus 5. Lamont Dozier: Blue Sky and Silver Bird (Black Bach, 1974) ABC 6. Teenage Head: Bonerack (Hard Core Logo, 1996) BMG Music 7. Mdou Moctar: Chismiten (Afrique Victime, 2021) Matador 8. Allumette: Cuvette (Auberge du Soufre, 2018) self-released 9. Warpaint: Champion (Radiate Like This, 2022) Virgin 10. Lido Pimienta: Para Transcribir [Sol] (Miss Colombia, 2020) Anti- 11. Alessandro Cortini: Corri (Scuro

Wanna hear a story? As late summer soldiers forth in the northern hemisphere, we'll profile Mica Levi's beguiling score to the 2020 Twitter-based film Zola. We also pay tribute to Olivia Newton-John, Jim Seals from Seals & Crofts and play catch-up on the 2022 Polaris Prize nominees. Are there weird starts to songs and gaps in others? Why yes, sigh. And is there a weird crackle in the audio? Also yes and also sigh. Technology isn't infallible but people are looking into the latter; I have to find rarer and rarer iPods since I don't trust modern things that rely on streaming. [NOT A HAIKU] 1. Willie Hutch: Brother's Gonna Work It Out (The Mack OST, 1973) Motown 2. Ian William Craig: Sentimental Drift (Music for Magnesium_173, 2022) FatCat 3. Olivia Newton-John: Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee (Grease OST: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, 1978) RSO/Universal 4. Olivia Newton-John: Magic (Xanadu OST, 1980) MCA/Jet 5. Electric Light Orchestra: Drum Dreams (Xanadu OST, 1980) MCA/Jet 6. Seals & Crofts: Diamon

In honour of the actress Nichelle Nichols (1932-2022), we'll deep into the first two Star Trek films and their scores by Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner. We also have various summer songs also in mind as we juggle technology and astronomy simultaneously. 1. Bob & Doug McKenzie: Black Holes (Great White North, 1981) Anthem 2. Meco: Star Trek Medley (Music from Star Trek and The Black Hole, 1980) Casablanca 3. Wallgrin: Yet Again the Wheel Turns (Yet Again the Wheel Turns/Psuedoreligion, 2022) self-released 4. Courtney Barnett: Sunfair Sundown (Things Take Time, Take Time, 2021) Mom+Pop/Remote Control 5. Michael Red: Star (Gateways, 2022) Hotham Sound 6. Mitski: The Only Heartbreaker (Laurel Hell, 2022) Dead Oceans 7. The KVB: Sunrise Over Concrete (Unity, 2021) Invada 8. Animal Collective: Zapata Falls (Crestone: Original Score, 2021) Domino 9. Jack J: The Only Way (Opening the Door, 2022) Mood Hut 10. Patrick Holland: The Shame of It All (You're the Boss, 2022) Sinderlyn 11. Aurora Halal: Just Te

For your civic holiday in Canada, BC Day specifically here in Vancouver, this episodes goes 80s chirpiness with selections from Harold Faltermeyer's soundtracks to Beverly Hills Cop, Fletch and a bit of Top Gun. Dollar days are upon us, pray tell. 01. Sally Shapiro: Holiday (Italians Do It Better, 2021) Italians Do It Better 02. Arushi Jain: Under the Lilac Sky (Under the Lilac Sky, 2021) Leaving 03. Universal Togetherness Band: More Than Enough (Saturday Night 7", 2014) Numero Group 04. Charlie Houston: Lately (2022) Arts & Crafts 05. Makoto Inoue: Sunset World (Synthetic Space, 1978) RCA 06. Burna Boy: Ja Ara E (The Lion King: The Gift, 2019) Parkwood/Columbia 07. Sade: Nothing Can Come Between Us [Pomo edit] (2013) self-released 08. FWY! Subdivision (San Clemente, 2012) Moon Glyph 09. Breeze: Bummer (Only Up, 2021) Hand Drawn Dracula 10. Plum: Diamond (Pull Back the Sky, 2022) self-released 11. Jason Zumpano: Falling Forward Again (Village Lights: Piano 2001-2002, 2022) Jaz 12. JayWood: Pray

Plan B is go as gak deals with substantial home music library problems, so we'll dig up Francis & Carmine Coppola's score to the 1979 epic war film Apocalypse Now and the unused David Shire score that was released a couple years ago. Let's all head up river with our grocery list. 1. UNKLE: UNKLE Main Title Theme (Psyence Fiction, 1998) Mo'Wax/London 2. Marc Sabat: Swing in Sweetest Summer [for Glissando Flute and Electronics] (2013) Plainsound 3. The Sadies: No One's Listening (Colder Streams, 2022) Yep Roc 4. Steve Lacy: Give You the World (Gemini Rights, 2022) L-M 5. Pauline Anna Strom: I Still Hope (Angel Tears in Sunlight, 2021) Rvng Intl. 6. Julia Jacklin: Love, Try Not to Let Go (Pre Pleasure, 2022) Polyvinyl 7. Men I Trust: Hard to Let Go (2022) self-released 8. Boredoms: GO!!!!! [excerpt] (Super Roots Sampler, 2008) Vice 9. PVA: Hero Man (Blush, 2022) Ninja Tune X. À La Mode: Est-ce Qu'on S'aimera (2017) self-released 11. Helena Hauff: Thalassa (@0, 2021) Ahead of Our Time 12. Kali Malo

gak's back after a few weeks in both literal and figurative wildernesses. At long last, we pay tribute to the Greek composer Vangelis (1943-2022) and only some of his synthetic epics. 1. Kraftwerk: Home Computer [2021 single edit] (Remixes, 2022) Kling Klang/Parlophone 2. Ingram Marshall: Prelude/The Bay (Alcatraz, 1994) New Albion 3. Alexandra Spence: Blue Waves (Calliope, 2022) Hotham Sound 4. Marina Herlop: Shaolin Mantis (Pripyat, 2022) Pan 5. Deborah Martin & Jill Haley: Fountains (The Silence of Grace, 2021) Spotted Peccary 6. Nite Jewel: Show Me What You're Made of (No Sun, 2021) Gloriette 7. Ouri: Fonction Naturelle [Joni Void remix] (Reel2Reel2, 2021) Everyday Ago 8. x/o: Chrysalis Wrath (Chaos Butterfly, 2022) Precious Metals 9. VILDÃ: Utsjoki-Disco (Vildaluodda, 2019) Bafe's Factory 10. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges: Chocolate Hill (Texas Moon 12", 2022) Dead Oceans 11. Sofia Kourtesis: Juntos (Fresia Magdalena EP, 2021) Technicolour 12. Purity Ring: Unlucky (Graves EP, 2022) The Fellowshi

gak went away to Finland for a few weeks to the only pre-recorded episode made available is Part 9 of our all-ambient series, focusing on mostly Canadian artists for the then-leadup to Canada Day. He doesn't talk over Sarah Davachi for once and there are longer drone pieces in the back half. ProtoU: Somniat Praeterita (Memory Alpha, 2022) Cryo Chamber Museum of No Art: Flight on Carpet (Museum of No Art, 2020) Séance Centre Sarah Davachi: Magdalena (Antiphonals, 2021) Late Music Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann: Red Sky (Mother of Pearl, 2021) Recital Sarah Davachi: Diaphonia Basilica [version] (Figures in Open Air, 2020) Late Music Habalayon: A Day Inside (Forest City Series: Volume 4, 2021) A Person Disguised as People Ben Grossman: Uruzi [The River] (Guelph Tomorrow, 2020) Blunderspublik anthéne: We're Here (Away from Your Shadow, 2021) Home Normal loscil: Century (The Sails Pt. 2, 2022) Frond Temple Volant: Sealestia (Force Field, 2020) self-released Hymns57: On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused M

All the holidays are upon us as Bloomsday and Juneteenth have passed, then National Indigenous Peoples Day and Midsummer approach. We'll tackle all that along with Joe Strummer's score to the 1987 film Walker plus a preview of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. 1. Fontaines DC: Bloomsday (Skinty Fia, 2022) Partisan 2. Brian John McBrearty: Second Story Tune (Blue Twenty-Three, 2017) Blue Tapes 3. Charlotte Cardin: Daddy (Phoenix, 2021) Cult Nation/Atlantic 4. Gladys "Fatso" Bentley: June-Teenth Jamboree (Bob Dylan: Radio Radio - Theme Time Radio Hour: Volume 2, 1920) Mischief Music 5. Anthony Davis, James Newton & Abdul Wadud: Juneteenth (I've Known Rivers, 1982) Gramavision 6. They Might Be Giants: Moonbeam Rays (Book, 2021) Idlewild 7. "Weird Al" Yankovic: Hardware Store (Poodle Hat, 2003) Volcano/Way Moby 8. Moat Bells: Circles in June (Bones of Things, 2022) A Person Disguised as People 9. Men I Trust: Ante Meridiem (Untourable Album, 2022) Return to Analog 10. Jr. Gone Wild: I Don't Kn

The actor Ray Liotta (1954-2022) was a distinctive force, so amongst various highlights, we'll profile music from Martin Scorsese's 1990 epic Goodfellas and then the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. He did amuse us so. 1. Mahotella Queens: Wozani Mahipi (Next Stop...Soweto: Volume 2, 2010) Strut 2. Jamani Duo: Open Window (Timeline, 2021) self-released 3. Julee Cruise: Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Floating into the Night, 1989) Warner Bros 4. Syl Johnson: Different Strokes (Dresses Too Short, 1968) Twilight/Numero Group 5. Holy Fuck: No Error (Deleter, 2020) Holy Ef/Last Gang 6. Bobby Oroza: I Got Love (The Otherside, 2022) Big Crown 7. Kaina: Blue [w.Helado Negro] (It Was a Home, 2022) City Slang 8. Joe Hisaishi: Mononoke Hime (Symphonic Suite: Mononoke Hime, 1997) Studio Ghibli/Milan 9. Joe Hisaishi: Princess Mononoke Theme [instrumental] (Princess Mononoke OST, 1997) Studio Ghibli/Milan 10. Ludovico Einaudi: Almost June (Underwater, 2022) Decca 11. Ludovico Einaudi: Underwater (Underwat

In tribute to actor William Hurt (1950-2022), we profile a wide swath of the actor's films, primarily focusing on John Barry's sultry score to the 1981 neo-noir Body Heat and selected music from 1998's sci-fi puzzler Dark City amongst other film scores. 1. Kamikaze Nurse: Aileen (Stimuloso, 2022) Mint 2. Mount Maxwell: Senescent Vivarium (Senescent Vivarium, 2022) Hotham Sound 3. Iggy Pop: The Passenger (Lust for Life, 1977) RCA 4. Depeche Mode: Any Second Now [Voices] (Speak & Spell, 1981) Mute 5. Depeche Mode: Pimpf (Music for the Masses, 1987) Mute 6. The Judds: Why Not Me (Why Not Me, 1984) RCA Nashville 7. The Tragically Hip: Wheat Kings (Fully Completely, 1992) MCA 8. M Netchai: Wedding Melodies for Drymba (Music of Ukraine, 1951) Ethnic Folkways 9. Kate Bush: Running Up That Hill [A Deal with God] (Hounds of Love, 1985) EMI 10. Tori Amos: Flowers Burn to Gold (Ocean to Ocean, 2021) Decca 11. Ólafur Arnalds: Still/Sound (Some Kind of Peace, 2020) Decca/Mercury 12. Charlotte Day Wilson: Kee

gak raced back from out east so this haphazardous episode profiles Joe Hisaishi's score from the iconic Studio Ghibli film My Neighbour Totoro whilst previewing the 2022 edition of Vancouver's Music Waste festival. You can smell the jet lag. Ichi, ni, san, yon, go! 1. Otoboke Beaver: Yakitori (Super Champon, 2022) Damnably 2. ToToro: Cats Eggs (Tings in Boots 3, 2019) Push & Run 3. Joseph Shabason: So Long (The Fellowship, 2021) Western Vinyl/Telephone Explosion IV. The Gap Band: You Dropped a Bomb on Me [12" single edit] (Gap Band IV, 1982) Total Experience 5. Mtume: Juicy Fruit (Juicy Fruit, 1983) Epic 6. Koichi Sugiyama: Overture (Symphonic Suite Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, 2019) King 7. The Golden Age of Wrestling: Rottweiler (Matriarch/Rottweiler [Double A side single], 2021) Surviving the Game 8. Apollo Ghosts: But I'll Be Around [acoustic] (Pink Tiger, 2022) You've Changed 9. King Cobb Steelie: Pass the Golden Falcon (Junior Relaxer, 1997) EMI 10. Midnight Oil: Nobody's Child

It's Victoria Day up Canada way and as gak jets off in multiple directions, this prerecorded episode promises to go Everything Everywhere All at Once (score by Son Lux). 1. Folklore Ensemble of the Village of Stena, Tomashpol District, Vinnitsa Region, Podolie: We're Starting a Curved Dance [Springtime Round Dance] (Ukrainian Music: Anthology of Folk Music, 2011) Melodiya 2. Richard Reed Parry: New Descent (The Nest OST, 2021) Music on Vinyl 3. Young Thug: Big Tipper [w.Lil Keed] (So Much Fun, 2019) 300 Entertainment/Atlantic 4. Nigo: Come On, Let's Go [w.Tyler the Creator] (I Know Nigo!, 2022) Republic 5. Surprise Chef: Spring's Theme (Velodrome 7", 2022) Big Crown 6. Tom Tom Club: Lorelei (Tom Tom Club, 1981) Sire 7. The Beaches: Let's Go (Future Lovers EP, 2021) Universal Canada 8. Cortico: Swell (Aeolia, 2019) self-released 9. Molchat Doma & Ploho: Po Krayu Ostrova (Post-Punk 2021, 2021) Artoffact 10. The Tranzmitors: It's Not Your Call (You Get Around 7", 2010) Dirtnap 11. Chris Hauer: Night

May is Asian Heritage Month so we'll tackle a classic by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa that inspired part of Star Wars: 1958's The Hidden Fortress as scored by Masaru Satoh. We also pay tribute to a lot of fallen drummers as of late amongst talking concerts in the Lower Mainland this week. As with CITR's web server, podcasts are working again. 1. Jacques Greene: Taurus (Fantasy EP, 2022) LuckyMe 2. Moe Koffman: Taurus Rising (Live at George's, 1975) GRT 3. Kalush Orchestra: Stefania (Eurovision 2022 Selection, 2022) Sony 4. Faction: Obligatory War Song (Through the Window, 1982) 96 Tapes 5. Tomoyasu Hotei: Battle without Honour or Humanity (Kill Bill: Volume 1 OST, 2003) A Band Apart/Maverick/Warner 6. Toshiaki Tsushima: Yagyu Conspiracy (The Yagyu Conspiracy OST, 1978) Toho 7. Ash Ra Tempel: Daydream (Deutsche Elektronische Musik 1: Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1972-83, 2010) Soul Jazz 8. Klaus Schulze: Satz - Gewitter [Energy Rise/Energy Collapse] (Irrlicht, 1972) Ohr 9. The Wi

Iceland is on the mind as we profile a few recent posthumous releases by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, including 2 film scores from Chinese films that are now streaming in North America: Blind Massage & The Shadow Play. We also talk about concerts in Vancouver this week as we play catchup from the CITR web server outage, including the Verboden Festival. Jónsi: Salt Licorice [w.Robyn] (Shiver, 2020) Krúnk Sigur Rós: Rembihnútur [Liminal re-work by Paul Corley] (@0, 2021) Ahead of our Time Fontaines DC: A Hero's Death [Soulwax remix] (2021) Partisan Future Islands: Plastic Beach (As Long As You Are, 2020) 4AD Sigur Rós: 65º27'29.1'N 15º31'56.0'W (Route One, 2018) Krúnk bbno$: Mathematics (2022) self-released !!! My Fault (Wallop, 2019) Warp Deborah Martin & Jill Haley: Verdant Sanctuary (The Silence of Grace, 2021) Spotted Peccary Adult. Our Bodies Weren't Wrong (Becoming Undone, 2022) Dais Minimal Violence: Untitled Dream Sequence (InDreams, 2019) Technicolour Gazelle Twin: Triumph (Welcome to the Bl

Long desired & finally aired, this episode tried to avoid the feeling of devouring six bowls of colourful cereal on a Saturday morning by keeping the cartoony side towards the back third. Still, there's plenty of Carl Stalling's music from the original Warner Brothers' cartoons amongst other frantic music from films & TV both old & new amongst the usual frim fram. 1. Alabaster dePlume: The Sound of My Feet on This Earth is a Song to Your Spirit (Gold: Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love, 2022) International Anthem 2. Shackleton: Something Tells Me/Pour Out Like Water (Departing Like Rivers, 2021) Woe to the Septic Heart! 3. The Poppy Family: Happy Island (Which Way You Goin' Billy, 1969) London 4. Meat Loaf: Hot Patootie [Bless My Soul] (The Rocky Horror Picture Show OST, 1975) Ode/A&M 5. The Dust Brothers: Abort Mission (Fight Club OST [Special Edition], 1999) Restless/Mondo 6. Orchestra Harlow: Horsin' Up (Orchestra Harlow Presenta a Ismael Miranda, 1968) Fania 7. Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queen

For our 600th episode as Exploding Head Movies (DC for the Romans, 698 for long-time radio free gak listeners), we go mostly Gallic with music from Wes Anderson's 2021 film The French Dispatch. The podcast gods were amenable since I couldn't record this episode from home so we are successfully relying on the rebuilt server talking to the station logger properly to present what I feared would be a lost episode. Allons-y! 1. Sault: Reality (Air, 2022) Forever Living Originals 2. King Cobb Steelie: Technique (Project Twinkle, 1994) Lunamoth 3. King Cobb Steelie: Triple Oceanic Experience (Project Twinkle, 1994) Lunamoth 4. Guy Lafleur: Marquer un But (Lafleur! [edition français], 1979) 5. Showman & The Thunderous Staccatos: RP600 (Locked in to Surf & Rock'n Roll Instrumentals: Volume 1, 1996) Alopecia 6. Anchoress: Psychobabble (Stay Positive, 2022) Early Onset 7. Peach Pit: Drips on a Wire (From 2 to 3, 2022) Columbia 8. Nathan Shubert: Pub in London [51.538°, -0.045°] (Field Recordings: Volume 1, 2019