CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

Sir George Martin (1926-2016) had a profound influence on music due to his time producing the Beatles, so in honour of his life, we profile some of his novelty releases, instrumental themes, his score to the James Bond film Live and Let Die plus some Yellow Submarine. 1. CITR: I've Suffered for My Music (S.U.B. Pop Compilation, 1993) CITR 2. Duffy: Live and Let Die (War Child presents Heroes, 2009...

Celebrating 40 years breathing air, gak takes some time to catch up on Black History Month (February, he's late) whilst anticipating International Women's Day with music from Pam Grier's blaxploitation films Foxy Brown, Coffy & Friday Foster. 1. Jimmy Carter: Political Campaign for President (Politicking: Volume 1, 2011) Funky Frolic 2. Silver Dapple: I Hate My Birthday (I Hate My Birthday EP,...

It's Leap Day for CITR's 2016 edition of the Fundrive! As part of our Oscar recap, we put the spotlight on Howard Shore's score to the winner of the Best Picture: Spotlight. http://citr.ca/donate 1. Tom Holkenborg [aka Junkie XL]: Claw Trucks [extended version] (Mad Max: Fury Road OST, 2015) Watertower 2. Lnrdcroy: Terragem (UNTHANK008 10", 2015) Firecracker 3. Ennio Morricone & the Czech National...

The 88th Academy Awards are handed out this Sunday (February 28) so since we heard all the nominated scores, it's time for all the original songs that were nominated. Along with representing films like Spectre, 50 Shades of Grey, The Hunting Ground, Racing Extinction and Youth, it's also time for our belated tribute to David Bowie (1947-2016) with his connection to film. 1. A Tribe Called Quest: A...

Not only do we have the 5th and final nominee for Best Original Score, Carter Burwell's Carol, Vancouver band Milk stops by and plays a live set. There's a rambolic interview with them (and Soft Serve head Kyle), poor jokes, sports & a contention about a Discorder review. 1. Les Paul & Mary Ford: Smoke Rings (Bye Bye Blues!, 1952) Capitol 2. Scuba: Solitary Confinement (Phenix 2 12", 2014) Hotflus...

Oscar season continues with the 4th nominated soundtrack nominated for Best Original Score: Thomas Newman's music for Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. We'll also dance about comedy, celebrate the Year of the Monkey and put blips and bloops in your magnetic mind. 1. Casey Mecija: Gonna Gun (Psychic Materials, 2016) self-released 2. Marie Davidson: Insomnie (Un Autre Voyage, 2015) Holodeck 3. Jes...

Our 3rd Oscar profile on this extended episode looks at Jóhann Jóhannsson's music from Sicaro, up for a Best Score Award amongst others. We also have Vancouver/Olympia band Underpass live in the show amidst tributes to the recently deceased. Jefferson Starship: Jane (Freedom at Point Zero, 1979) Grunt/RCA Sidewinder: Quest (Dnepr_Vancouver 1.0, 2015) Reclaim Your City Jefferson Airplane: Today (Su...

Oscar season continues with a profile on John Williams' latest addition to the Star Wars saga: The Force Awakens. As a bonus, there's also his score from the original Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back; Holst's big classical influence on George Lucas' series; some spacy David Bowie and a couple acts associated with the Vancouver Push International Performing Arts Festival. 1. John Williams...

Nicely timed for my 8th anniversary on air here at CITR, it's Oscar season! So here's the Oscar-nominated (and Golden Globe-winning) score from Ennio Morricone to Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. So much love to go around and then hide. 1. The Clash: Hateful (London Calling, 1979) CBS/Epic 2. Ron Hardly: Plus Hate (Worth It, 2014) Aural Sects 3. The BB Guns: Baby, I Hate You (Baby I Hate You...

Bonus episode: I couldn't come up with anything for this year's celebration of art's birthday, but I did appear on Sara Lapsley's adaptation of H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds", most famously made into a radio play by Orson Welles. Along with me, there are appearances from Jon Wurster, Kaj Korvela and Jane Turner.

The film won 3 Golden Globes this past Sunday but its score is ineligible for an Oscar due to "too many composers". We look at The Revenant and some music from Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto. This supersized episode also dissects New Order's Blue Monday and mourns David Bowie (1947-2016) -- expect a longer profile later once I get more sleep than this long show. 1. David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the...

To kick off a new year, it's time to listen to Disasterpeace. Along with his music from the recent indie horror film It Follows, there will be his chiptune score from the 2012 indie video game FEZ. Hello 2016, goodbye Lemmy (& Scott & JB). 1. CITR: A Date That Will Live in Infamy (SUB Pop, 1963) CITR 2. Radiohead: Spectre (2015) unreleased 3. AT/NU: Subsurface [extended mix] (PSI Grove, 2014) 1080...

Our annual year-in-review episode, taking songs that defined the past twelve months, along with the score to the key film of 2015 -- Mad Max: Fury Road, as composed by Junkie XL. What a lovely year. 1. The Chemical Brothers: Go [w. Q-Tip] (Born in the Echoes, 2015) Virgin EMI/Astralwerks 2. Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld: The Rest of Us (Never Were the Way She Was, 2015) Constellation 3. Beck: Drea...

Now time for a personal favourite: Vince Guaraldi and his music from not just A Charlie Brown Christmas, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but other Peanuts media, including other TV specials and film. Plenty of melodic jazz for the young at heart, whether you were a Snoopy fan or not. There are other Christmas songs to counterprogram against your usual mainstream selection. "Who cares a...

It is a time of impatience. Years of waiting for a profile on the legendary JOHN WILLIAMS and his music from the 1977 film STAR WARS is finally rescued from the clutches of obscurity by the rogue music dealer KORGA IKTHU aboard the scrappy starship C.I.T.R. However, after some distracting asteroids and related audio material, the ship overheats as Korga plots a controlled crash into an uncharted s...

Let's go on about the mechanism and touch upon Bonds new (Spectre) and Bonds old (From Russia with Love). Plus the Big Joy Festival and Mint Records' Ridiculously Early Christmas Party this weekend. Let me be the author of all your pain and then scribble some happy doodles in the margins. 1. David Arnold & Natacha Atlas: From Russia with Love (Shaken & Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project,...

Do I look like I sailed through space on a synthi-biscuit? Judge Dredd is our theme, as we dish out bits from released scores from Alan Silvestri and Paul Leonard-Morgan and unreleased ones from Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow. gak also plays a bad ukulele badly; he should feel bad. These are your new laws: 1. Fink Bros: Mutants in Mega City One [Mutie mix] (Mutants In Mega-City One 12", 1985) Zarjaz...

There have been better weeks. As unplanned go, along with what has happened in Paris, Baghdad, Lebanon, Egypt & Kenya this week, this partially improvised show looks at Allen Toussaint (1938-2015) and a score half-done earlier this week: Fumio Hayasaka's music from The Seven Samurai. 1. Panda Bear: Untying the Knot (Mr Noah EP, 2014) Domino 2. Suuns & Jerusalem in My Heart: 2amoutu I7tirakan (Suun...

FLASH! AH AH! Queen's bombastic score to the 1980 cheesy cult adaptation of Flash Gordon finally gets its due. Prepare the rocket sleds! Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé: Barcelona (Barcelona, 1988) Polydor/Hollywood Project Pablo: Always (I Want to Believe 12", 2015) 1080p Barcelona: Pasion (Extremo Nihilismo en Barcelona 12", 2015) La Vida Es Un Mus Hinds: Chili Town (Leave Me Alone, 2016)...

gak's back and he has Vancouver band Failing playing live along with an interview. Some of his European travels come to the fray, primarily Portugal. Not much soundtrack work this time, I'm afraid but picture this as its score to a film-to-be. Failing: https://failing.bandcamp.com/ 1. Watermelon: Fog (Cassette, 2013) Green Burrito 2. Brian Eno & Harold Budd: Failing Light (Ambient 2: The Plateaux...

A prerecorded episode originally for a Seattle trip, but aired two weeks later once I headed to Europe. However, most of the timing is preserved for Hallowe'en, looking at the music from the films of Wes Craven (1939-2015) - Charles Bernstein's synth work for A Nightmare on Elm Street and an early Marco Beltrami orchestral score for the original Scream. More or Les: Time & Space (Bigger on the Ins...

gak's back, though briefly, with a profile on John Carpenter, including his music from his 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13 and his collaboration with Alan Howarth for 1981's Escape from New York. Sinister synthesizers synchronize. Destroyer: Midnight Meet the Rain (Poison Season, 2015) Merge/Dead Oceans Dirty Beaches: Landscapes in the Mist (Drifters/Love is the Devil, 2013) Zoo Music Gang of Fou...

gak dips into the vinyl vault to share Ryuichi Sakamoto's half to the score to the 1987 film The Last Emperor. There's also some songs from Sakamoto's original band Yellow Magic Orchestra and references to the 34th annual Vancouver International Film Festival. If you haven't visited CITR's website recently, it's been updated massively. www.citr.ca - this show even has its own page now! www.citr.ca...

Back in full force and somewhat well-rested. 1. DJ Raff: Latino & Proud (Latino & Proud, 2011) Nacional 2. The Horace Silver Quintet: Sighin' and Cryin' (Song for My Father [reissue], 1989) Blue Note 3. Neon Indian: Annie (VEGA INTL. Night School, 2015) Mom + Pop/Transgressive 4. Onra: We Ridin' (Fundamentals, 2015) All City 5. Onra: I Wanna Go Back (Chinoiseries, 2007) Favourite 6. Pure Bathing C...