CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

Laurel Halo scored the 2018 experimental documentary Possessed, which came out as a soundtrack last year, so this week profiles this wild electronic composer. We also talk Laurie Anderson, the Beats in Space radio show and eulogize Yoshi Wada and Franco Battiato. 1. Laurie Anderson: Big Science (Big Science, 1982) Warner Bros 2. Loscil: Lines (Faults, Coasts, Lines, 2020) self-released 3. Tornado...

For your Victoria Day transmission, we pay tribute to the Spanish composer Antón García Abril (1933-2021) with selections from his score from the film Texas Adios and the TV series El Hombre Y La Tierra. We also remember Bay City Roller Les McKeown, actor Helen McCrory, singers Anita Lane & Fredi and astronaut Michael Collins. 1. Bay City Rollers: Ain't It Strange (Rollin', 1974) Bell 2. Connect_i...

gak missed 24 Hours of Radio Art earlier this year, so with a 17th landing on a Monday at long last, experience 2 hours of experimental music along with some kitchen appliance silliness. 0. gak: interview with the dishwasher (2021) self-released [in para//e/ with] /. The Avalanches: Star Song. IMG (We Will Always Love You, 2020) Modular 2a. Robert Filliou: Whispered History of Art [excerpt] (Fluxu...

Along with a preview of this year's Vancouver Doxa Documentary Film Festival, we pay tribute to the French director Bertrand Tavernier (1941-2021) and we feature some of the jazzy sounds from his 1986 film 'Round Midnight. 1. Squid: Documentary Filmmaker (Bright Green Field, 2021) Warp 2. Laurie Spiegel: Three Modal Pieces - III. A Myth [1983] (Obsolete Systems, 2001) Electronic Music Foundation 3...

With the Oscars done, we focus on smaller films. In this mostly electropop episode, we profile Electric Youth & Pilotpriest's score to the 2020 Canadian scifi horror Come True. 1. The Conet Project: 555 Konec (The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations, 1997) Irdial 2. Electric Youth: Modern Fears [Pilotpriest Come True version] (Come True OST, 2021) Milan 3. Pilotpriest: Forgiven...

Oscar season is over and gak gambled on the right film in the short turnaround to airtime. In honour of its Best Picture win during the 93rd Academy Awards, we profile Chloé Zhao's film Nomadland along with the Oscar winning score to Soul and the best original song from Judas & The Black Messiah. 1. Kamasi Washington: Announcement (Becoming OST, 2020) Young Turks 2. Nomadland Cast: On the Road Aga...

For our 5th & final Oscar nominees profile, we listen once more to Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross with their nominated score from the Pixar film Soul. We also hear the final nominated song from the film The Life Ahead. We also pay tribute to War bassist BB Dickerson, actors George Segal & Jessica Walter and Blue Peter singer Paul Humphrey. 1. Sharon Musgrave: Giving You Everything [radio...

Part 4 of our annual Oscar music profile for your April listening, focusing on Trent Reznor's & Atticus Ross' nominated score from Mank along with the nominated song from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. gak thinks like he's over his non-Covid cold but it sure doesn't sound like it. Roll sound, speed! 1. Dry Cleaning: Strong Feelings (New Long Leg, 2021) 4AD 2. Heiki: April Dub (Du...

Part 3 of our annual Oscar music profile for your April listening, focusing on James Newton Howard's nominated score from News of the World along with the nominated song from The Trial of the Chicago 7. We also pay tribute to synthesizer pioneer Malcolm Cecil, musician/cartoonist Gary Leib and welcome a weird baseball season. 1. World News: Descenending (Descenending single, 2021) Safe Sounds 2. T...

Part two of our annual Oscar music profile is here, focusing on Terence Blanchard's nominated score from Spike Lee's latest film Da 5 Bloods along with the nominated song from One Night in Miami... We also pay tribute to jazz bassist Paul Jackson, French producer Jean Pierre Masseira & the recent shooting in Boulder, Colorado. 1. The Headhunters: God Made Me Funky [w. The Pointer Sisters] (Surviva...

The nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards were announced last monday, so over the next five weeks, we'll do our annual profile on the nominees for Best Original Score & Song. First up in our Oscar business: Minari & Judas and the Black Messiah. (Pardon any odd tonal shifts between dialogue and songs.) 1. Beck: Hollywood Freaks (Midnite Vultures, 1999) DGC 2. Khotin: Dream Mentor (Dream Mentor EP, 2...

As Daft Punk have broken up, we pay tribute to the humans behind the masks with selections from their 28 year career, including their work from the films Tron: Legacy and Electroma. Remixes, covers, samples & only one bad French vocoder attempt: the back half of this episode shows their prowess as they became a force in pop culture. 01. Breakwater: Release the Beast (Splashdown, 1980) Arista 02. H...

Monday marks International Women's Day, so for our 7th installment of all-ambient episodes, the future will be all female too. 1. Emily A Sprague: Water Memory Poem (Water Memory/Mount Vision, 2019) Rvng Intl. 2. Chika Asamoto: Obsession (Gypsy Moon, 1988) Columbia 3. Pauline Anna Strom: Spatial Spectre (Spectre, 1984) Trans-Millenia Consort Recordings 4. Pauline Anna Strom: The Eighteen Beautiful...

Ringo the greyhound recently crossed the rainbow bridge so in that good boy's honour, we have Ennio Morricone's scores from the 1965 spaghetti westerns A Pistol for Ringo and The Return of Ringo. 1. Lorne Greene: Ringo (Welcome to the Ponderosa, 1964) RCA Victor 2. Shabason, Krgovich & Harris: The Flowers in My Parents' Yard (Florence, 2021) Idée Fixe 3. Akron/Family: Onward, Trainstop, Bookmark (...

In honour of the Canadian actor Christopher Plummer (1929-2021), we feature music from some of his films, including The Sound of Music, The Silent Partner, The Man Who Would Be King, An American Tail, The Insider, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Beginners, All the Money in the World and Knives Out. 1. Stereolab: Dimension M2 (Electrically Possessed: Switched On Volume 4, 2021) Duophonic UH...

It's Family Day here in BC so this hodge-podge of an episode is mostly in honour of director Michael Apted (1941-2021) and music from his films Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorky Park & The World is Not Enough. 1. Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams: Without Us [Theme from Family Ties] (Television's Greatest Hits - Volume 6: Remote Control, 1996) TVT 2. The Animals: It's My Life (It's My Life 7", 1965) Col...

Fundrive 2021! CITR's annual fundraiser needs your help to keep the airwaves and devices humming with unique programming -- https://citr.ca/donate This episode profiles Ennio Morricone's music from Sergio Leone's spaghetti western epics that make up the Dollars Trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. 1. Delia Darbyshire: Door to Door (BBC Radiophonic...

In honour of Black History Month and all sorts of other political pageantry, this mostly jazzy episode profiles Kamasi Washington's score to the 2020 Netflix Documentary on Michelle Obama: Becoming. 1. Norah Jones: American Anthem (The War: A Ken Burns Film OST, 2007) Legacy 2. Gordon Grdina's Nomad Trio: Nomad (Nomad, 2020) Skirl 3. Fucked Up: Year of the Ox (Year of the Ox 12", 2010) Merge 4. Ge...

As a new dawn rises, we pay tribute to the French composer Claude Bolling (1930-2020) and listen to selections from his scores to Borsalino, California Suite & Le Magnifique. 1, Jim Heath: Theme from Commander in Chief (Commander in Chief OST, 2005) ABC 2. Blackalicious: Paragraph President (Blazing Arrow, 2002) Quannum/MCA/Mahogany Sun 3. Markus Floats: Forward Always (Third Album, 2020) Constell...

On this Dr Martin Luther King Jr day, we zigzag over to Iceland with Frank Hall's score to the 2017 film I Remember You based on the recent release of that soundtrack. We'll have other Icelandic classical for you along with a bit of noise since I skipped this year's 24 Hours of Radio Art. 1. Public Enemy: By the Time I Get to Arizona (Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black, 1991) Def Jam/Columbi...

gak marks his 13th anniversary at CITR with one wary eye from last week's autogolpe at the US Capitol. Our profile: Jon Batiste's jazzy songs and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross' electronic score to the recent Pixar film Soul. We also tackle the music from the controversial video game Cyberpunk 2077 amidst talk of sedition, treason, Boba Fett & Chuck Yeager. 1. Johnny Cash: Thirteen (American Recordin...

We've made it into 2021! gak digs up old plans from an episode devoted to Carter Burwell's score to the Coen Brothers' 1996 classic Fargo and its weird spiritual successor, 2015's Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter with a soundtrack by The Octopus Project. Wintry topics arise but we'll avoid the Minnesota accent. 1. Calamine: Theme from Sealab 2021 (Sealab 2021 OST, 2001) Adult Swim 2. AG Cook: 2021 (7G,...

With 2020 almost in hindsight, we review the year with songs that represent this difficult time along with a profile on Ludwig Göransson's score to the Christopher Nolan film Tenet, which is indicative of the struggles faced by many over the past twelve months. 01. The Avalanches: Ghost Story [w. Orono] (We Will Always Love You, 2020) Modular 02. Gorillaz: Strange Timez [w. Robert Smith] (The Song...

Our annual tradition regarding Yuletide numbers that you won't hear anywhere else continues -- it's our counter-Christmas carol episode! That said, with a rotten year almost kicked to the curb, this episode profiles the music from the 1983 holiday classic A Christmas Story along with hymns from the dead and newish solstice music. BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE: 1. Driptapes: Intro (A Very Merry Dripsma...

Composer Harold Budd (1936-2020) created super minimal music, so in his tribute, we return again to our all-ambient well with plenty of his music, including his scores from the recent HBO series I Know This Much is True and the 2014 film White Bird in a Blizzard (co-scored by Robin Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins). 1. Robert G Hamilton & The Frankford High School A Cappella Choir: El Yivneh Hagalil/T...