Citr -- Exploding Head Movies

gak's back from a crazy long trip, helping with one move as he sorts his own. Amongst some catchup on news and road themes, we profile Natalie Holt's score from the Marvel TV series Loki. 1. Sparks & Jane Wiedlin: Cool Places (In Outer Space, 1983) Atlantic 2. Dogs versus Shadows: You are Here (You are Here/You are Not a Ghost/DVS, 2021) Submarine Broadcasting Company 3. Witch Camp (Ghana): I Must Build a New Home (I've Forgotten Now Who I Used to Be, 2021) Six Degrees 4. Jack Pine & The Fire: Home (Jack Pine & The Fire, 2011) self-released 5. Sanford Ponder: Thunder Bay (Tigers are Brave, 1986) Private Music 6. Tourist Board Sask: Experience Regina (2008) self-released 7. The Pack AD: BC is on Fire (We Kill Computers, 2010) Mint 8. Toshiro Mayuzumi: Olympic Finale (Tokyo Olympiad 1964 OST, 1965) Monument/Campi-Editore 9. Biz Markie: Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz (Goin' Off, 1988) Cold Chillin' 10. Beastie Boys: The Biz vs. The Nuge (Check Your Head, 1992) Capitol/Grand Royal 11. The Avalanc

It's Pride Week again in Vancouver, so for this LGBTQ2SIA+ episode, we'll profile k.d. lang's score to the 1993 film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. 1. The Gossip: Standing in the Way of Control [Soulwax Nite version] (Standing in the Way of Control, 2006) Kill Rock Stars/Back Yard 2. Coil: Alternative Theme from Gay Man's Guide to Safer Sex (The Gay Man's Guide to Safer Sex +2, 2019) Musique Pour La Danse 3. Cerrone: Love in C Minor (Love in C Minor, 1976) Cotillion/Atlantic 4. Le Knight Club: Chérie d'Amoure (Gator 12", 2001) Crydamoure 5. THP Orchestra: Weekend Two Step (#2 Tender is the Night, 1978) Butterfly/RCA Victor 6. Dax Pierson: Adhesion (Nerve Bumps: A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction, 2021) Dark Entries/Ratskin 7. Jackpot: Brief Encounter (Rvng of the Nerds: Volume 9 12", 2009) Rvng Intl. 8. Phillip & Lloyd: Keep On Moving (Disco Demands: Part 6, 2020) BBE Disco 9. YUF-O: Prance = Prance (You Eff Ohh 12", 2021) Superconscious 10. India Jordan: Only Said Enough (Watch Out! 12", 2021) Ninja Tun

After sixteen long months, gak returns to live radio as CITR reopens to some programmers as BC's Covid-19 situation improves. We profile the director Richard Donner (1930-2021) and music from his 1978 superhero defining film Superman along with the duduk player Djivan Gasparyan (1928-2021) and some of his film score appearances. Mistakes will be made right next to history! 1. Hello: New York Groove (Keep Us Off the Streets, 1976) Bell 2. Heiki: Provincial Dread (Dub Town, 2021) Paper+Sound 3. Washed Out: Don't Give Up (Paracosm, 2013) Sub Pop 4. Toro y Moi: Empty Nesters (What For?, 2015) Carpark 5. Richard Reed Parry: What We've Always Wanted (The Nest OST, 2021) Music on Vinyl 6. Meryem Aboulouafa: Welcome Back to Me (Meryem, 2020) Animal63 7. Aoleon Askari: Come Back Home (2021) self-released 8. Chris Hauer: Return Home (Minor Sleep Deprivation EP, 2015) self-released 9. Hinds: Take Me Back (The Prettiest Curse, 2020) Mom+Pop 10. John Sebastian: Welcome Back (Welcome Back, 1976) Reprise 11. Joe

Jon Hassell (1937-2021) was a trumpetter and composer of what he called "fourth world" music. Along with his own evocative pieces, we'll hear some of his contributions to scores by Ry Cooder and Peter Gabriel. 1. Talking Heads: Houses in Motion [edit] (Remain in Light, 1981) Sire 2. Kalte: Stenothermic (Morphology, 2020) self-released 3. Virginia Wing: Moon Turn Tides (private LIFE, 2021) Fire 4. Jennifer Castle: Monarch Season (Monarch Season, 2020) Paradise of Bachelors 5. Paradise Cinema: Liberté (Paradise Cinema, 2020) Gondwana 6. Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band: Red Champs (Banned, 2021) Flemish Eye/ANTI- 7. Tennyson: Face the Night (Different Water, 2019) self-released 8. Divide and Dissolve: Mental Gymnastics (Gas Lit, 2021) Invada 9. LOONY: Ours (Soft Thing EP, 2021) AWAL 10. Janette King: Cool Me Down [w.DijahSB] (What We Lost, 2021) Hot Tramp 11. Hélène Vogelsinger: Reminiscence (Reminiscence, 2021) Modularfield 12. Yu Su: Touch-Me-Not (Yellow River Blue, 2021) bié 13. Hannah Peel: Patte

It's July and this week, we'll profile Gazelle Twin's score to the film Nocturne, part of the Amazon series Welcome to the Blumhouse. Most of the selected songs are odd and jolty. -01- KPT: Absolution (Obliterate, 2021) Give/Take -02- B.Michaael: A Part of Heat (A Part of Heat, 2021) self-released -03- Fleck E.S.C: Responsible Grown Up (Responsible Grown Up, 2021) Woodwork -04- Acid Youth: Citrus (Citrus EP, 2021) self-released -05- Sébastien Guérive: Omega II (Omega Point, 2021) Atypeek -06- djb: Fruit Passage (Blue-Green/Fruit Passage, 2021) Datafruits -07- CFCF: Life is Perfecto (Memoryland, 2021) BGM -08- Faust: Läuft... Heisst das es läuft oder es kommt bald... Läuft (Faust IV, 1973) Virgin -09- Emissive: Constellation of Friends (City of Rooms EP, 2021) self-released -10- Disclosure: Etran [w.Etran Finatawa] (Energy [deluxe edition], 2020) Island -11- Vladislav Delay: Raaha (Rakka II, 2021) self-released -12- Morwell: Delirium (Souls, 2021) self-released -13- Alessandro Cortini: Lo Specchi

Good day, eh? With Canada Day this week, this episode's topic is the Great White North as we profile Bob & Doug McKenzie and the soundtrack to the 1983 SCTV offshoot film Strange Brew. Comedy abounds, both intentional and otherwise. 1A. Combustible Edison: Strange Brew (Four Rooms OST, 1995) WEA/Elektra 2A. Bob & Doug McKenzie: Welcome to Our Radio Show (Guest DJs, 1980) KZAP 3A. Eugene Mirman, Holly Schlesinger, Nora Smith, Loren Bouchard, Wendy Molyneux, Lizzie Molyneux & Bob's Burgers: Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! (The Bob's Burgers Music Album, 2017) Sub Pop 4A. Claude Desjardins & Eric Robertson: When the World Began (Canada: A People's History OST, 2000) CBC 5A. Joseph C Krause: I Need a Garbage Man in My Life [w.Stashu] (Iztac, 2020) Bumbleplex 6A. The Cosmopolitans: Wild Moose Party ([How to Keep Your] Husband Happy 7", 1980) Shake 7A. Johnny "Big Moose" Walker: Moose Huntin' (Rambling Woman, 1970) BluesWay 8A. Scrambled Debutante: Self-Loathing Love Song (King Kitty Kitty Meow Meow, 2012) self-releas

June 21 is Indigenous Peoples' Day, along with the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, we spend a good portion of this episode honour those who lived first on hallowed grounds, which has added relevance this year in light of the continued horrors that Canada's residential schools have wrought on countless generations. We profile BC Smith's soundtrack to the 1998 film Smoke Signals and preview the now partially live Vancouver International Jazz Festival. 1. Nadjiwan: The Ghosts We Leave Behind (Star Nation, 2021) Heading North 2. Deborah Martin & Jill Haley: Indian Heaven (The Silence of Grace, 2021) Spotted Peccary 3. Snotty Nose Rez Kids: TMZ (Born Deadly EP, 2020) self-released 4. Erica Dee: Smile [Greazu$ & Sinistarr remix] (The 12 Days of Bass Coast, 2015) Bass Coast 5. Limbs of the Stars: Film Song (Heartwarmongering, 2013) Offseason 6. Willie Dunn: Louis Riel (Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology, 2021) Light in the Attic 7. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: I

The score to the 2018 British horror In Fabric was done by Cavern of Anti-Matter and it came out last year, so we'll finally do our overdue profile on that Stereolab-adjacent score amongst other odd tunes. We also talk about Vancouver's Music Waste Festival, the band Sparks, musician Joni Sadler, actor Charles Grodin and electronic pioneer Joel Chadabe. 1. The Chemical Brothers: The Darkness That You Fear [HAAi remix] (The Darkness That You Fear single, 2021) Virgin EMI 2. Sam Shalabi & Stefan Christoff: Vardar River Song (Rodina, 2013) Howl! 3. Sparks: Barbecutie (Kimono My House [21st Century Editions], 1974) Island 4. Sparks: iPhone (A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, 2020) BMG 5. Nennen: Harbour (Alcrete split cassette, 2014) Misery Loves Co 6. Lungbutter: Health (Mands split cassette, 2014) Misery Loves Co 7. Yoo Doo Right: A Certain Sense of Disenchantment (Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose, 2021) Mothland 8. Autotelia: Floating Island of the Gods (I, 2020) Rocket Recordings 9. Linkwood & Other

The actor Dame Diana Rigg (1938-2020) was mostly known for her work in the British spy TV series The Avengers but she ruled the roost in George Lazenby's only film as James Bond as we profile Sir John Barry's score to the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Plenty of other secret agent film songs zip by in what likely sounds like the coolest party I'll never escape from. 001 Bell Orchestre: Opening (House Music, 2021) Erased Tapes 002 Shirley Bassey: The Liquidator (The Liquidator OST, 1965) MGM 003 Nimh & Rapoon: Melancholy's Bow (Post-Folk Lore: Volume 1, 2020) Winter-Light 004 Lloyd Price & The Dukes: Oo-Ee Baby (Chee-Koo Baby 7", 1954) Specialty 005 Wilson Pickett: Land of 1000 Dances (The Exciting Wilson Pickett, 1966) Atlantic 006 Spy-Fi: Reid's Situation (Music for Spies, Thighs & Private Eyes - Volume 1: The Thigh Who Loved Me, 2003) self-released 007 The Kingsmen: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (How to Stuff a Wild Bikini OST, 1965) Wand/Reo 008 Meiko Kaji: Urami Bushi (Kill Bill OST: Vo

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 Wallace: Desperate Pleasures (BIS: 001-020, 2016) Beats in Space 4. Anna: Systems Breaking Down [dance version] (Systems Breaking Down 12", 1982) RCA 5. Yoshi Wada: Untitled (International Friendship, 1983) Syncord/De Fabriek 6. Franco Battiato: No U Turn (Clic, 1974) Island 7. Modeselektor: Social Distancing [FJAAK remix] (Social Distancing 12", 2021) Monkeytown 8. Sunroof: 30.5.19 (Electronic Music Improvisation: Volume 1, 2021) Parallel Series/Mute 9. Burial: Dark Gethsemane (Shock Power of Love EP, 2021) Keysound 10. Madlib: Road of the Lonely Ones (Sound Ancestors, 2021) Madlib Invazion 11. Kiefer: S

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_icut: Even More Like Space, Pt. III (Even More Like Space, 2021) CSAF 3. Helen McCrory: "There's Only One Thing..." (Peaky Blinders OST, 2019) UMC 4. Jehnny Beth: I'm the Man (Peaky Blinders OST, 2019) UMC 5. Helen McCrory: "A Woman of Substance..." (Peaky Blinders OST, 2019) UMC 6. PJ Harvey: Red Right Hand (Peaky Blinders OST, 2019) UMC 7. Helen McCrory: "It's In Our Gypsy Blood..." (Peaky Blinders OST, 2019) UMC 8. Barry Adamson: Suck on the Honey of Love (Moss Side Story, 1988) Mute 9. Anita Lane: The World's a Girl (Dirty Pearl, 1993) Mute 10. Nick Cave & Anita Lane: Bedazzled (The World's a Girl singl

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] (Fluxus Anthology: 30th Anniversary 1962-1992, 1980) Slowscan 2b. Antonio Russolo: Luigi Russolo's Corale [1921] (Die Kunst Der Geräusche, 2000) WERGO 3. Kinnie Starr: Proprioception [DlaYah'algaang] (Edge of the Knife/SGaawaay K’uuna OST, 2020) Apopria 4. The Brandeis University Chamber Chorus: Alvin Lucier's North American Time Capsule 1967 (Extended Voices, 1968) Odyssey 5. David Greenfield & JJ Brunel: Unknown Song / (Fire & Water/Ecoutez Vos Murs OST [outtakes], 1983) Edsel 6. Faulty Machine Recordings Service: 2013-05-21 @ Barrington Hills, IL - Mower and Birdsong (Faulty Machine Recordings Service: December

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. Laurie Spiegel: A Folk Study (The Expanding Universe, 2012) Unseen Worlds 4. Daphne Oram: Ursa Major [Sun mix, 1962] (The Oram Tapes: Volume 1, 2011) Young Americans 5. Daphne Oram: Eton (The Oram Tapes: Volume 1, 2011) Young Americans 6. Delia Derbyshire: Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO (BBC Radiophonic Music, 1968) Society of Sound Music/Bowers & Wilkins/Real World 7. Pauline Oliveros: Alien Bog [excerpt] (Music from Mills, 1986) Mills College 8. Suzanne Ciani: A Sonic Womb Pt.4 (A Sonic Womb: Live Buchla Performance at Lapsus, 2020) Lapsus 9. Fanny: Borrowed Time (Fanny Hill, 1972) Reprise 10. X-Ray Spex: I am

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 (Come True OST, 2021) Milan 4. Digital Underground: Same Song (This is an EP Release, 1991) Tommy Boy FIVE. Aaliyah & DMX: Come Back in One Piece (Romeo Must Die OST, 2000) Blackground 6. Augustus Pablo: 555 Dub St (King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown, 1976) Clocktower 7. Basside: NYC2MIA [SOPHIE remix] (Fuck It Up EP, 2021) Sorry 8. SOPHIE: Unisil (2021) Numbers 9. ZULI: Where Do You Go (All Caps 12", 2021) UIQ 10. OMAAR: Traib (Drum Temple, 2021) NAAFI 11. Bicep: Sundial (Isles, 2021) Ninja Tune 12. Steve Moore: At the Edge of Perception (Analog Sensitivity, 2021) Be With/KPM Main Series 13. The Juan M

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 Again (Nomadland OST, 2021) Decca Classics 3. Ludovico Einaudi, Redi Hasa & Federico Mecozzi: Day 3 - Low Mist (Nomadland OST, 2021) Decca Classics 4. Jon Batiste: Collard Greens & Cornbread Strut (Soul OST, 2020) Walt Disney 5. Jon Batiste: Celestial Spaces in Blue (Soul OST, 2020) Walt Disney 6. Jon Batiste: Spiritual Connection (Soul OST, 2020) Walt Disney 7. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: Portal/The Hall of Everything (Soul OST, 2020) Walt Disney 8. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: Ship Chase (Soul OST, 2020) Walt Disney 9. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: Enjoy Every Minute (Soul OST, 2020) Walt Disney 10. Trent R

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 edit] (Jewelweed Part 1 EP, 2021) Zosar 2. War: The World is a Ghetto [disco instrumental mix] (The World is a Ghetto 12", 1980) MCA 3. War: River Niger [edit] (Platinum Jazz, 1977) Blue Note/United Artists 4. George Segal & Canadian Brass: Strummin' with George (Basin Street, 1987) FM/CBS 5. Quincy Jones: Hot Rock Theme [w.the Don Elliott Voices] (The Hot Rock OST, 1972) Atlantic/Prophesy 6. Richard Burton & George Segal: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf [Pt. 2, excerpt] (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? OST, 1966) Warner Bros 7. Barbra Streisand & George Segal: The Warmup [excerpt] (The Owl and the Pussycat:

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 (Dub Town, 2021) Paper+Sound 3. White Ring: I Need a Way (Show Me Heaven, 2021) Rocket Girl 4. Special Interest: Don't Kiss Me in Public (The Passion of, 2020) Thrilling Living/Night School 5. India Jordan: Rave City (For You 12", 2020) Local Action 6. Jayda G: Both of Us [Jayda G Sunset Bliss mix] (Both of Us/Are U Down 12", 2020) Ninja Tune/JMG 7. Syngja: Monster Trucks (Lang Amma, 2016) self-released 8. The Hang Ten Gallon Hats: Chip Truck (Giddy Up Surfboard, 2021) Dive In 9. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: Break Up (Theory of Ice, 2021) You've Changed 10. Willie Dunn: Charlie (Creation Never Sleeps, Crea

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. Tonto's Expanding Head Band: Bittersweet (Tonto Rides Again, 1996) Viceroy Vintage 3. Tonto's Expanding Head Band: Cybernaut (Zero Time, 1971) Embryo 4. Rubber Rodeo: She Had to Go (Rubber Rodeo EP, 1982) Eat 5. SUSS: Mojave (High Line, 2019) Northern Spy 6. Smoke: Hank Aaron (Heaven on a Popsicle Stick, 1994) Long Play 7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Baseball Canto (Live at the Poetry Centre, 2003) The Poetry Centre of Chicago 8. Nick Schofield: Ambient Architect (Glass Gallery, 2021) Backward 9. Styrofoam Winos: Roygbiv (Styrofoam Winos, 2021) Sophomore Lounge 10. Le Couleur: Comme une Fin du Monde (Concorde,

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] (Survival of the Fittest, 1975) Arista 2. Emissive: Sunset Yellow (City of Rooms EP, 2021) self-released 3. Emmylou Harris: From Boulder to Birmingham [live] (Unearthed, Volume 7: Rocky Mountain Time, 2019) Aquarium Drunkard 4. Wilco: A Shot in the Arm [live, Boulder Theatre 1999 November 01] (Summerteeth [deluxe edition], 2020) Rhino FIVE. Dave Grusin: The Colorado Trail (Discovered Again!, 1976) Sheffield Lab 6. Battle of Santiago: Protest (Queen and Judgement, 2020) Made with Pencil Crayons 7. Eunice Keitan: Standing with You (2020) self-released 8. Cal Tjader: Oran (Soul Burst, 1966) Verve 9. Human Egg: Feeling

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, 2020) Public Release 3. Yaphet Kotto: Have You Ever Seen the Blues (Have You Ever Seen the Blues 7", 1967) Chisa 4. Ann Reinking: There'll Be Some Changes Made (All That Jazz OST, 1979) Casablanca 5. Yu Su: Melaleuca [at Night] (Yellow River Blue, 2021) bié 6. YUF-O: Rebuild, Recharge (You Eff Ohh, 2021) Superconscious 7. Colored Music: Heartbeat (Colored Music, 1981) Better Days 8. Ryuichi Sakamoto: ff (async, 2017) Commons 9. Taeyeon: LOL (Purpose: The 2nd Album, 2019) SM Entertainment 10. Hye-Jin Park: Like This (How Can I EP, 2020) Ninja Tune 11. A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Every Solstice & Equinox