Citr -- Exploding Head Movies

With the passing of the actress Monica Vitti (1933-2022), we listen to a wide range of music associated with her films, ranging from comedies to Michaelangelo Antonioni's moody new wave films. There were also a lot of concerts happening in Vancouver that week -- for podcast listeners, it's not so relevant anymore -- but it's a full raft of the usual mayhem. 1. Le Rose: Monica Vitti (Le Rose, 2010) Pippola 2. Johnny Hammond: Big Sur Suite (Higher Ground, 1974) Kudu 3. The Magnetic Fields: I've Got a Date with Jesus (Quickies, 2020) Nonesuch 4. Destroyer: Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread (Labyrinthitis, 2022) Merge 5. Mono: To See a World (Pilgrimage for the Soul, 2021) Pelagic/Temporary Residence 6. Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers: Junk Man (Spencer Gets It Lit, 2022) In the Red 7. Night Court: Boat in Idle (Nervous Birds! One, 2021) Debt Offensive/Snappy Little Numbers 8. Apocalyptica: Path (Death Stranding: Songs from the Video Game, 2020) Mondo/Masterworks 9. Snail Mail: Glory (Valentine, 2021) Matador

With the Major League Baseball season starting last week, this episode pays tribute to that pasttime with a profile on James Horner's score to the 1989 sports fantasy Field of Dreams. We also recognize Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022) with songs from his 1971 film The Last Picture Show. Podcast subscribers: yep, citr.ca was offline for a month so you'll see all the recent episodes starting popping up in your feed and on your devices as we play catch up. 1. Mira Calix: Fundamental Things (Absent Origin, 2021) Warp 2. Brother Superior: Trini Groove (A New Beginning, 1978) Mabel 3. Slow: Against the Glass (Against The Glass EP, 1985) Zulu 4. The Sadies: Stop and Start (2021) Dine Alone 5. The Ventures: 2000 Pound Bee (The Versatile Ventures, 1967) Liberty 6. Fine Mist: I Could Shout [w.Nick Krgovich] (CITR Pop Alliance: Volume 2, 2011) CITR 7. Altin Gün: Ordunun Dereleri (Yol, 2021) Glitterbeat 8. Ron Grainer & His Group: Happy Joe [Signature Tune from Comedy Playhouse] (Happy Joe 7", 1962) Pye 9. Black

With awards season over, it's time an overdue Part 8 of our all-ambient episodes, this time focusing on soothing sounds that came out last year. 1. Kaleema: Ambrosia (Útera, 2021) Wonderwheel 2. Area 3: Whale (Amb, 2021) Khotin Industries 3. M Crook & Oxherding: Shelter in Place (Shelter in Place, 2021) self-released 4. A Winged Victory for the Sullen: The Celestial City (Invisible Cities/Le Città Invisibili, 2021) Artificial Pine Arch Manufacturing 5. Connect_icut: Lonely in the House (Talisman, 2021) CSAF 6. Christina Chatfield: Nameless Islet (Sutro, 2021) Mysteries of the Deep 7. These Liminal Days: Space 1.1 (Empty Spaces 1, 2021) self-released 8. Deborah Martin & Jill Haley: The Stillness of Forest Bathing (The Silence of Grace, 2021) Spotted Peccary 9. Carlos Niño & Friends: Cloud Prayer (The Lagniappe Sessions, 2021) Aquarium Drunkard 10. Dean Hurley: Val Verde Horizon (Concrete Feather, 2021) Boomkat Editions/Sacred Bones 11. Kuma: Twelve Words for Cosmos (A Beautiful Use of Negative Spac

Our Oscar season draws to a close as the 94th Academy Awards were handed out yesterday in a wild ceremony. Along with a recap of the winners, we'll profile Marius De Vreis' score from this year's Best Picture: Coda. 1. Emilia Jones: Beyond the Shore (CODA OST, 2021) Republic 2. Loscil: Clara (Clara, 2021) Kranky 3. Hans Zimmer: Leaving Caladan (Dune OST, 2021) WaterTower 4. Hans Zimmer: Ornithopter (Dune OST, 2021) WaterTower 5. Hans Zimmer: Visions of Chani (Dune OST, 2021) WaterTower 6. Billie Eilish: No Time to Die (No Time to Die OST, 2021) Darkroom/Interscope 7. The 5th Dimension: Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' to Ya [Live at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival] (Summer of Soul ...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised OST, 2022) Legacy/Sony 8. Jonny Greenwood: Viola Quartet (The Power of the Dog OST, 2021) Lakeshore 9. Austra: I Am Not Waiting (HiRUDiN, 2020) Domino 10. Beach House: Once Twice Melody (Once Twice Melody, 2022) Sub Pop 11. Germaine Franco: El Camino de Mirabel (Encanto OST, 2

Since we've wrapped up our profiles on the best original scores for this Sunday's Academy Awards, Part 6 of our annual Oscar episodes focuses on the nominated songs from the films No Time to Die, Encanto, King Richard, Belfast & Four Good Days. We'll touch upon some songs that missed the cut and then pay tribute to Canadian director (1963-2021) with music from some of his films & television series. 1. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul: It Hit Me (Topical Dancer, 2022) Deewee/Because Music 2. No Translation: The Place of Flowers (Rust & Remain, 2022) A Red Thread/Katuktu 3. Cluster: Oh Odessa (Curiosum, 1981) Sky 4. D-Drifters-5: Today I am Leaving for the Battle (D-Drifters-5 Sing and Play Traditional and Original Ukrainian Songs, 1964?) V/MSC 5. Aasthma: Fragments (A Dove has Spread Her Wings: Relief for Ukraine, 2022) Northern Electronics 6. Reba McEntire: Somehow You Do (Somehow You Do - Single from the Motion Picture Four Good Days OST, 2021) Rocking 'R/MCA Nashville 7. Van Morrison: Down to Joy (B

For the 5th part of our annual Oscar profiles, we'll listen again at Hans Zimmer's score to Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune since it became nominated since we last spoke about it. We'll also a lot of live music options in Vancouver this week as pandemic mandates lift amongst more Ukrainian music and tributes to the recently deceased. 1. Dragobrath: Intro (Fra Myrer Taake, 2010) Eastside 2. The Chieftains: The Foggy Dew [w.Sinéad O'Connor] (The Long Black Veil, 1995) RCA Victor 3. Thomas Kotcheff: Foggy Dew (Frederic Rzewksi: Songs of Insurrection, 2020) Coviello Contemporary 4. Spada & Korolova: Be Strong (2022) Armada Electronic Elements 5. 6th Crowd: Sokolonko (2022) self-released 6. Yan Cook: Hacked (Dnepr_Vancouver 1.0 EP, 2015) Reclaim Your City 7. Betty Davis: Game is My Middle Name (Betty Davis, 1973) Just Sunshine 8. Ann Peebles: If We Can't Trust Each Other (I Can't Stand the Rain, 1973) Hi Records 9. The Bo-Keys: Hi Roller (Got to Get Back!, 2011) Electraphonic 10. Todd Rundgren & S

Part IV of our annual Oscars profile looks at Alberto Iglesias' nominated score to Pedro Almodóvar's 2021 film Parallel Mothers. We also pay tribute to Mark Lanegan (1964-2022) and the continued Ukraine resistance. 1. PJ Harvey: Ballad of the Soldier's Wife (September Songs: Music of Kurt Weill, 1997) Sony Classical 2. Robert Fripp: Elegy [Nashville 2006 March 1] (Music for Quiet Moments, 2021) Discipline Global Mobile/Panegyric/Wowow/Inner Knot 3. The Polka Drifters: A Soldier's Lament (Ukrainian Times, ????) Ukrainian 4. Mickey & Bunny: Out Behind the Barn (Mickey and Bunny sing This Land is Your Land, 1964) V Records 5. Mike Domish Orchestra: Ukrainian Hopak (Alpine Polka, ????) Alpine/RCA Victor 6. Ummagma: Ty i Ya (Caravan single, 2019) self-released 7. Montag: Sunflower (Des Cassettes et un Walkman Jaune, 2009) self-released 8. Paul Leonard-Morgan & Philip Glass: Tales from the Loop [theme] (Tales from the Loop OST, 2020) Mondo/Hollywood 9. Squid: Peel St. (Bright Green Field, 2021) Warp 10.

As Oscar season continues, we dive into Nicholas Britell's nominated score to Adam McKay's satire Don't Look Up. We also explore music associated with a defiant Ukraine and wars since apparently, a pandemic wasn't enough strife on this planet. Go invade yourself; we aren't doomed despite how the sky feels. 1. Gavin Friday: You Me and World War Three (Shag Tobacco, 1995) Island/Polygram 2. Aidan Baker: Jigras (The Sheep Look Up, 2022) Bibliotapes 3. Valentin Silvestrov via Radio Ukraine International [UKR]: The Dream [05/20/2005, 7440 kHz ~0200 UTC] (ShortWaveMusic 2005-2008, 2005) Myke Weiskopf 4. Blakkr Nið: Odessa [w.King Brude] (Holy Visions, 2015) self-released 5. Valentina Goncharova: Passageway to Eternity (Recordings 1987-1991: Volume 1, 2020) Shukai 6. Vassyl Yemetz: Z Ukrainskyce Stepiw (Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World's Music, 2020) Dust-to-Digital 7. Zeellia: Oj Tam U Polju Dub Horyt (Zeellia, 1998) self-released 8. Gail Archer: Chacona (Chernivtsi: Contemporary Ukrain

Part 2 of our annual Oscar nominee profile dives into the world of Encanto, the recent Disney film with a nominated score by Germain Franco and a song by Lin-Manual Miranda. We also profile plenty of associated Colombian and Latin urban music amidst tributes to Dallas Good, Bappi Lahiri and the completed Beijing Olympics. Happy Family Day! 1. Spoon: The Hardest Cut (Lucifer on the Sofa, 2022) Matador 2. Mount Maxwell: Entropics (Senescent Vivarium, 2022) Hotham Sound 3. The Sadies: Wasn't Born to Follow (Tremendous Efforts, 2001) Outside Music 4. The Sadies: Message to Belial (2022) Dine Alone 5. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: Memories of Gay Paree (Sport Fishin': The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook, 1993) Cargo/Jetpac 6. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: The Jehrney (Sport Fishin': The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook, 2016) Yep Roc 7. Bappi Lahiri: Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja [w.Parvati Khan] (Disco Dancer OST, 1982) EMI/His Master's Voice 8. The Roots: The Seed [2.0, extended radio edit w

Oscar season is upon us again, so since the nominees for the 94th Academy Awards were announced last week, we bring our profiles on the nom'd scores and songs by focusing on Jonny Greenwood's score to the 2021 film The Power of the Dog, allowing us to also discuss other recent soundtrack work by the Radiohead member for films like Spencer and Licorice Pizza. It's also Valentine's Day and our first episode after CITR's recent Fundrive, so prepare to bask in the love. 1. Tsunxmi: Station ID (Broken on Reflection, 2021) GIVE/TAKE 2. Lady Wray: Thank You (Piece of Me, 2021) Big Crown 3. T Gowdy: Emerald Teeth (Corona Borealis Longplay Single, 2020) Constellation 4. Snail Mail: Valentine (Valentine, 2021) Matador 5. Mitski: Valentine, Texas (Laurel Hell, 2022) Dead Oceans 6. Yes/And: More Than Love (Yes/And, 2021) Driftless 7. Ada Lea: My Love 4 U is Real (One Hand on the Steering Wheel, The Other Sewing a Garden, 2021) Saddle Creek 8. Delilah Montagu: Love Me with All Your Heart (Moominvalley OST, 2019)

It's Fundrive time again at CITR! This year's theme is "Plenty of Fish in the Sea...Eye Tea Arrrrr" so amongst some vague piscine themes, we'll profile music from Edgar Wright's latest film, 2021's Last Night in Soho. If you can, donate today during the month of 2022 February: https://www.citr.ca/donate Fundrive programming will go until February 10th. Des chansons pour des poissons: 1. The Marvelettes: Too Many Fish in the Sea (The Marvelettes Greatest Hits, 1964) Motown 2. Yves Léveillé: Une Nuit Sur Soho (Soho, 2006) Effendi 3. Damien Jurado: WKRP in Cincinnati (Lagniappe Sessions, 2019) Aquarium Drunkard 4. The Sports: Who Listens to the Radio (Don't Throw Stones, 1979) Mushroom/Arista 5. Danny Elfman: Big Fish (Music for a Darkened Theatre - Film & Television Music: Volume 3, 2009) MCA 6. Mr Scruff: Fish (Keep It Unreal, 1999) Ninja Tune 7. Cub: Go Fish [live] (Live from Thunderbird Radio Hell: 1992 October 01, 1992) CITR 8. John Lurie: Ahhh... Fishing (Fishing with John OST, 1998) Strange

In honour of actor/director Sidney Poitier (1927-2022), we feature some of the music associated with his long history in filmmaking, which shares some overlap with songwriter Marilyn Bergman (1928-2022) who worked on many a Hollywood song. February also marks the start to Black History Month and the Year of the Tiger so let's begin the beguine. 1. St Vincent: Year of the Tiger (Strange Mercy, 2011) 4AD 2. Hélène Vogelsinger: Apparition (Reminiscence, 2021) Modularfield 3. Fucked Up: Year of the Tiger [w.Jim Jarmusch] (Year of the Tiger 12", 2012) Matador 4. Moe Koffman: Tiger Claw (Jungle Man, 1976) GRT 5. Possum: I am the Tiger (Space Grade Assembly, 2019) Garment District 6. Apollo Ghosts: Pink Tiger (Pink Tiger, 2022) You've Changed 7. Alan Howarth: Wing Kong White Tiger [from Big Trouble in Little China] (Live at Hollywood Theatre, 2018) Wyrd War/BSX 8. Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band: Say Goodbye to Hollywood (Say Goodbye to Hollywood 7", 1977) Epic/Cleveland International 9. The Ronettes:

With The Matrix: Resurrections widely released, we listen to Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer's score from that film along with Don Davis' music from the original series from 20 years ago. We also pay tribute to Vancouer singer Megan MacDonald who died suddenly last weekend. 1. Mount Eerie: Do Not Be Afraid (Singers, 2005) self-released 2. Roland Kayn: Matrix (Simultan, 1977) Colosseum 3. The Poison Dart: All Things Said Must Pass (Get Hot, 2006) Marriage 4. International Falls: Ghouls 'n' Ghosts (The Plateau, 2006) Probably 5. Fine Mist: Stop or Start [The Blankket remix] (Nite Sweats Pt 1, 2011) self-released 6. Fine Mist: O Wake (Public Domain, 2010) self-released 7. COOL: Saffron (Paint, 2014) Yellow Plum 8. Matty: 41edocrazytalk (ARKIVE, 2021) self-released 9. Severed Heads: Now, an Explosive New Movie (City Slab Horror, 1984) Ink 10. Viagra Boys: 6 Shooter (Welfare Jazz, 2021) Year0001 11. Light Blending In: Conquering Fears (The Prettiest Flowers Have the Sharpest Thorns, 2021) self-released 12.

Prepped for this year's 24 Hours of Radio Art but missing a cutoff time, this is a superlong version of Alvin Lucier doing his seminal sound art piece I Am Sitting in a Room from a 1980 recording. You can hear that generation loss and overtone frequency collection build up over the 45 minutes. This will eventually air at a later time on CITR as part of a capsule radio art episode via Bepi Crespan's show, which you can listen on Fridays 2-3:30pm Pacific or anytime via https://www.citr.ca/radio/bepi-crespan-presents/ [unknown] Open Tones Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room (I Am Sitting in a Room, 1980) Lovely Music Suzanna Ciani: Analogue Mountain (Music for Denali EP, 2020) Finder Keepers

24 Hours of Radio Art lands on a Monday this year, so Exploding Head Movies morphs in honour of all the noise that mixes field recordings from parts of the world that feel even further away during a pandemic along with newish experimental music and tributes to those composers who recently left us, including the main chair sitter himself Alvin Lucier (1931-2021). [01] Socotra Soundscapes: 2013-03-13 Al Mukalla, Yemen - Felix Airways Takeoff Announcement & Pre-Flight Prayer [Riyan to Socotra] (Socotra Soundscapes: Field Recordings from the Archipelago, 2017) Faulty Machine Recordings Service [02] Apartment House: Fourteen (John Cage's Number Pieces, 2021) Another Timbre [03] Alvin Lucier: Music on a Long Thin Wire [edit] (OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-1980, 1980) Ellipsis Arts [04] Anthony Burr, Charles Curtis & Robin Hayward: Alvin Lucier's Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Tuba (Chamber Music: Alvin Lucier & Morton Feldman, 2019) Important [05] Pauline Kim & Conrad Harris: Alvin Lucier's Love S

gak marks 14 years on CITR with a long-overdue countrified episode tied to Merle Haggard (1937-2016), the western sound of Bakersfield, California and music from the video game Red Dead Redemption 2. Yeehaw! 1. Laura Cantrell: 14th Street (Humming by the Flowered Vine, 2005) Matador 2. Jeff Gunn, Koi Anunta & Mike Sleath: Spiritus Momentous [Never Give Up, Opus 2] (Momentum, 2022) self-released 3. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Going Where the Lonely Go (Raise the Roof [deluxe edition], 2021) Rounder/Concord/Warner Bros 4. Big Thief: Spud Infinity (Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, 2022) 4AD 5. The Hang Ten Gallon Hats: Cactus Juice (Giddy Up Surfboard, 2021) Dive In 6. The Cactus Blossoms: Mississippi (You're Dreaming, 2016) Red House 7. Rank & File: Amanda Ruth (Sundown, 1982) Slash/Warner Bros 8. Rubber Rodeo: The Theme from Rubber Rodeo (Rubber Rodeo EP, 1982) Eat 9. Jerry Reed: Amos Moses (Georgia Sunshine, 1970) RCA Victor 10. Beastie Boys: 5-Piece Chicken Dinner (Paul's Boutique, 1989

The year is 2022 and despite all our hopes, we enter uncertain times, which we'll underscore since this new year is the setting of the 1973 dystopian science fiction film Soylent Green with music by Fred Myrow. We play catchup with recent departed souls along with digging up some best-of songs from 2021 whilst teasing at music already due out this year. 1. Ann-Margret: New Year's Greetings (Christmas/New Year's Greetings 7", 1963) RCA Victor/Groove 2. The Beatles: Like Making an Album?/I've Got a Feeling [Take 10] (Let It Be [Super Deluxe version], 2021) Apple 3. Sarah Neufeld: The Top (Detritus, 2021) 4. The Monkees: Daily Nightly (Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd, 1967) Colgems 5. The Moody Blues: We're Broken (A Slight Disturbance in My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds of 1966, 2020) Grapefruit 6. Vincent Parker: Waiting on Bad News (For Nothing Tho..., 2021) self-released 7. Andrew Gold: Thank You for Being a Friend (All This and Heaven Too, 1978) Asylum 8. Sonny Curtis: Love is

As 2021 draws to a merciful close, we take stock of the music released this year and focus on Japanese Breakfast, who had a busy year, including the soundtrack to the video game Sable. We don't do "best of"'s here; we review the past 12 months and press forwards. 1. CFCF: welcome.WAV (Memoryland, 2021) BGM 2. DJ Harrison: 2021 Disco (Tales from the Old Dominion, 2021) Stones Throw 3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra: Movement 6 (Promises, 2021) Luaka Bop 4. TV Priest: Journal of a Plague Year (Uppers, 2021) Sub Pop/Hand in Hive 5. Clown College Dropout: 2021 (2021, 2021) 155 6. Parquet Courts: Walking at a Downtown Pace (Sympathy for Live, 2021) Rough Trade 7. Modwump: Vaccine for the Masses (Music for Bunkers, 2021) Submarine Broadcasting Company 8. Squid: Narrator [w.Martha Skye Murphy] (Bright Green Field, 2021) Warp 9. Circuit des Yeux: Vanishing (-io, 2021) Matador 10. Bell Orchestre: Closing (House Music, 2021) Erased Tapes 11. Vanille: Phonème (Soleil '96, 2021)

For our 14th annual holiday episode, Mr Kent of Toronto nobly volunteered to sift through hundreds of weird Christmas songs to come up with a joyful selection of atypical carols amidst the doom & continued gloom that is Covid Christmas II. Tweaks were made for airtime amongst other recently released tunes & other related updates as we profile Henry Mancini's & Leslie Bricusse's music from 1985 Santa Claus: The Movie. Ho ho ho! Read Kent's reviews with his comrade Toast of visual media: https://wedisagree.blogspot.com/ (do note that they often agree with each other). Remember kids: Christmas trees and gasoline don't mix. 1. The Vancouver Midmores to the Regina Midmores: Christmas Greetings (Christmas Greetings 10", 1952) CKWX/Audiodisc 2. Maylee Todd: I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You (Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada 4, 2012) The Line of Best Fit 3. Sinikka Langeland: Winter Rune (Wolf Rune, 2021) ECM 4. Nicole Atkins: Every Single Christmas (Every Single Christmas 7", 2020) self-released 5. The Dears:

Tonight, tonight, we pay tribute to the great American musical composer Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021), tackling only some of his notable pieces in his glorious songbook (since he wrote a lot of great pieces), leading up to the recent Steven Spielberg remake of West Side Story. 1. David Bowie: New Angels of Promise [Omikron: The Nomad Soul version, remastered] (Brilliant Adventure 1992-2001, 2021) Parlophone/ISO 2. Modula: Omicron Ballad [Sisterhood remix] (Omicron Ballad 12", 2014) Tief 3. Courtney Barnett: Take It Day by Day (Things Take Time, Take Time, 2021) Milk!/Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists 4. Light Blending In: Moving Onwards (The Prettiest Flowers Have the Sharpest Thorns, 2021) self-released 5. Badbadnotgood: Unfolding/Momentum 73 [w.Laraaji] (Talk Memory, 2021) XL/Innovative Leisure 6. The Magnetic Fields: Take Ecstasy with Me [w.Susan Anway] (Holiday, 1994) Feel Good All Over 7. The Jazz Butcher: The Party's Over [live] (Brave New Waves Sessions, 2017) Artoffact 8. Hildur Guðnadóttir: Floods (