CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

In the midst of prerecorded shows or possible repeats, gak's back to do a proper light summer theme around pirates & sea shanties. We will not get all your favourites but we'll look into TV shows like Our Flag Means Death and do a brief run through some of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. We also try to cover a lot of what's going on in Vancouver festivals before he hits the high seas aga...

With gak elsewhere in Canada this week, this pre-recorded episode celebrates what this nation has with a profile on Michael Timmins' score to the 2016 biopic Maudie. Based on information available at the time of creation, no soundtrack announcements or weather synopses though an attempt is made to explain the Pacific waters map for future marine forecasts, which feels like someone trying to explai...

With the Vancouver International Jazz Festival underway, it's time to get jazzy again as we look at some of the acts performing in one of this city's true highlights of summer. We'll pay tribute to pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (1934-2026) along with saxophonist Sonny Rollins (1930-2026) and his only film score: 1966's Alfie. 01. Johnny Crawford & his Dance Orchestra: The Wilshire Grand Swing Suite "St...

With the coming Sunday sporting many holidays, we'll focus mostly on National Indigenous Peoples' Day with the score to 1966's Navajo Joe with some more Ennio Morricone as we profile many more Turtle Island musicmakers. We also bid farewell to a shortwave standard: CHU's time keeping. 01. Boards of Canada: Father and Son (Inferno, 2026) Warp 02. Gast: Boards of Yamaha (Pond 12", 2026) Ilian Tape 0...

With another large sports event coming to Vancouver, we'll talk both soccer & football as the world's most beautiful game has a tournament with 7 games in town. We'll talk about a couple films, Bend It Like Beckham & Shaolin Soccer, along with some other ephemera tied to kicking a ball around. We also talk about the recent Canadian Screen Awards & mourn CBS News. 01. Fundido & Emma Dufaux: Get a G...

Exploring the idea of the blue marble we live on, this explorative episode uses Daniel Blumberg's score to the 2020 film The World to Come to hit the globe. 01. Riccardo Cioni: In America [Luca Peruzzi & Matteo Sala remix] (2021) Atomika 02. Nova Pon & Turning Point Ensemble: World Within (Symphonies of Mother & Child, 2024) Redshift 03. Gremino: World is in Trouble (2026) EABE 04. The Halluci Nat...

Miles Davis was born 1926 May 26 so this week marks his centenary. Therefore, most of this episode is jazzy with one of Davis' soundtracks, the 1958 French film Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud, but we also make our 1st attempt to paying tribute to CITR's The Jazz Show with the late great Gavin Walker as I dig up some old segments from shows, including an interview with vibraphonist Milt Jackson. Technol...

For your Victoria Day programming (now 3 hours long), we pay tribute to the Japanese author Koji Suzuki (1957-2026) with dueling North American & Japanese film adaptations of The Ring & Dark Water. No one ever died from Betamax. 01. Addison Lea Thompson: Introductio (Vita, 2025) Cowpuncher 02.Clannad: Caislean Õir (Macalla: 40th Anniversary Edition, 2025) RCA 03. The Corrupting Sea & Anthéne: What...

With recent volcanic activity abounding (though presently, far from the Pacific Coast of Canada), we dust off hopes of a eruptive profile, nicely timed with a recent reissue of Pink Floyd's 1972 concert film Live at Pompeii. 01. Esa Pakarinen ja Pirteät Pelimannit: Lentävä Kalakukko (1951) Rytmi 02. Matt Thibideau: Memory Loss (Forest City Series: Volume 6, 2025) A Person Disguised as People 03. C...

May the fourth be with you! Despite a new Star Wars film on the horizon this month, we'll go with an Ennio Morricone score to a 1979 space film that apparently has an influence on The Mandalorian & Grogu. Prepare yourselves for L'Umanoide or A Man in Space. 01. Lisa Dalbello: Something's Happening Here (Rarities, 1986) Expo 86 02. Colin Stetson: Something Red (Something Very Bad is Going to Happen...

gak's back and still somewhat jetlagged as he dives into one of his favourite genres: musique concréte & early industrial as Cosey Fanni Tutti scored a 2020 documentary about the most iconic member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop -- "Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes". The four hour version of this show had lots of potential, though your host would've fallen asleep halfway throug...

It's been a while since we've gone all ambient, so with gak on the road again, let's listen to some of the beatless wonders that came out in 2025. 01. Mount Maxwell: Birds of Paradise (Birds of Paradise, 2025) Hotham Sound 02. Isostatic: Haystack Reveries (Reel Landscapes, 2025) Exosphere 03. Khotin: Vacation (Peace Portal, 2025) self-released 04. Anthéne & Simon McCorry: The Grove (Wellspring, 20...

With a bit more time and stroke of luck, we'll finally pay tribute to the actor Robert Duvall (1931-2026) with a focus on two Texan gems: the 1983 film Tender Mercies & the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove. Though we aspired to be quite country this episode, we veer off in multiple directions per usual. gak also deals with a wild pony as rescheduling a cancelled flight right before airtime and handle...

Since it's Easter, we'll explore the idea of rebirth via the story of Lazarus, mostly from the eyes of Shinichirō Watanabe and his latest anime series of the same name with a soundtrack by Bonobo, Floating Points & Kamasi Washington. Y'all get a Sunday school lesson on a Monday evening so break out your crayons. 01. U: Cold Lazarus (Archenfield, 2025) Lex 02. Bruce Haack: Stand Up Lazarus (Farad:...

There have been hopes to share the soundtrack to 1971's cult classic Harold & Maude for a long time but with the passing of Bud Cort (1948-2026), we've got some Cat Stevens amidst other tributes & concert previews in Vancouver. Let's count all the crickets. 01. Neil Sedaka: Bad Blood (The Hungry Years, 1975) Rocket Record 02. Parris: Why Can't Rabbits Wear Cowboy Boots (Passionfruit EP, 2024) Can...

Pivoting back to hard reality, with much of the world's focus on Iran, we finally dig into music from that country. We'll explore some recent reissued pop music from the diaspora and explore films such as A Girls Walk Home Alone at Night and Universal Language. 01. Kassa Overall: Ready to Ball (Animals, 2023) Warp 02. Jon Porras: Fields (Achlys, 2025) Shelter Press 03. Country Joe & the Fish: An U...

The 98th Academy Awards were handed out on Sunday so as we wrap up award season, we'll recap who won and we'll profile the score from the Best International Feature Film: Hania Rani's soundtrack from Sentimental Value. Everybody's famous, except me. 01. Rubel: Reckoner (Beleza, Mas Agora a Gente Faz o Que Com Isso?, 2025) Mr Bongo 02. Jonny Greenwood: I Need the Greeting Code/Operation Boot Heel/T...

With the 98th Academy Awards to be handed out on Sunday and we've already covered all the nominated songs & scores, we'll go with one that was on the shortlist but tied to a film with 9 other nominations: Daniel Lopatin [aka Oneohtrix Point Never] and his music from Marty Supreme. gak also deals with getting old and then going long. 01. Charanga 76: Music Trance (12", 1979) TR 02. Plastikman: Ping...

Not only is it Week 6 of our annual Oscars profile but it's also CITR's annual FUNDRIVE! As I profiled the 5 nominees for Best Original Song, which ties into a discussion of KPop Demon Hunters and a few other South Korean jams, if you're in a position to contribute, please visit http://donatetocitr.ca to help us raise CAD$20 000 to keep the station more than just humming. All the desks check in. T...

For our final Oscar-nominated score profile, leading up to next month's Academy Awards, we listen again to cues from Jonny Greenwood's work from Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, up for 13 Oscars in total. We'll dabble in Radiohead-adjacent works & covers whilst also looking at what else is going on in our conflicted world. Your host is running every minute these two hours...running...

It's Week 4 of our annual Oscars profile and first time nominee Max Richter has had a strong presence in modern classical music. His score to Hamnet ties into a lot of themes surround Family Day, Mardi Gras, Carnaval & the incoming Year of the Fire Horse. 01. Crosstown Traffic: Love Your Family (Party People 12", 1979) DC 02. Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt: Impulse Array (FRKWYS Volume 18: Extende...

Week 3 of our annual Academy Awards profile looks at Alexandre Desplat's Oscar nominated score to Guillermo del Toro's 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein. gak also offers a pronounciation guide to all the Finnish athletes participating at the Milano Cortina Winter Sports Thing. We've got a single channel and we're thriving on it. It's alive! 01. Frankenstein: This is the Fiend (Trick or Treat: Volume...

Week 2 of our annual Academy Awards profiles looks again at the music from 2025's Sinners, which has two musical nominations amongst its records 16 total: one song & Ludwig Göransson's score. Prepare for plenty of blues as we also pay tribute to one of the hosts of CITR's Code Blue program: Paul Hunter (1951-2026). 01. Mitch & Mickey: Kiss at the End of the Rainbow (A Mighty Wind OST, 2003) DMZ/So...

The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards were announced last Thursday. Thus begins our annual Oscar season profiles! We begin with Jerskin Fendrix's nominated score from Bugonia as we also explore some of the new additions into the public domain for 2026. >>>>> 01. The Besnard Lakes: In Hollywood (The Besnard Lakes are the Ghost Nation, 2025) Full Time Hobby 02. Stellarium: Sidereal Trailblazers (...

Since 2026 still has some spillover from the previous year, we'll hear selections from Tom Rowland's score to the 2025 limited TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century as we try to find cheer in a world refusing to ditch past bad habits. 01. Dry Cleaning: Evil Evil Idiot (Secret Love, 2026) 4AD 02. Bellbird: Blowing on Embers (The Call, 2025) Constellation 03. Olivia Boring: Too Much Tom Petty (The...