XHM #493 - "I'm carrying a gold shovel, so yes" (2020 February 17)

CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies · Feb 18, 2020

It's Black History Month, so with the film award season ending earlier that usual this year, we can finally have a timely funky episode with a long overdue profile on Isaac Hayes' score to the 1971 blaxploitation classic Shaft! Can you dig it? 1. Red Circle: Red Blood Blues (Petrified, 2019) self-released 2. Ted Quinlan: Cheticamp (Absolutely Dreaming, 2019) self-released 3. Sudan Archives: Glorious (Athena, 2019) Stones Throw 4. Alicia Clara: Closing Time at the Gates (2020) Interstreet 5. Kronos Quartet: Terry Riley's The Electron Cyclotron Frequency Parlour (Sun Rings, 2019) Nonesuch 6…