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CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
Join gak as he explores music from the movies, tunes from television and any other cinematic source, along with atmospheric pieces, cutting edge new tracks and strange old goodies that could be used in a soundtrack to be. The spotlight swings widely to encompass composers, genres and other categories, but all in the name of discovery and ironclad whimsy.
Episodes
- CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
XHM #469 - "Como as rodas não voam" (2019 August 19)
With the recent passing of bossa nova pioneer João Gilberto (1931-2019), it's time for our semi-regular Brazilian-theme episode. This time around, we'll go all…
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XHM #468 - "Baby's venom spite" (2019 August 12)
With the recent passing of the Nobel & Pulitzer prize winning author Toni Morrison (1931-2019), we'll profile Rachel Portman's score to the 1999 film…
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XHM #467 - “The little frogs & crayfish aren't the only ones that should be worried” (2019 August 05)
It’s a civic holiday on Canada, marking the middle of the North American summer. Very appropriate to scare you with Bobby Krlic’s score to Ari Aster’s horror…
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XHM #466 - "Glitter + sparkle" (2019 July 29)
For Pride Week in Vancouver, this episode is all LGBTQIA2S+, whether based on performer or subject matter. Main profiles will be on M83's score to the recent…
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XHM #465 - "Life's inexhaustible well" (2019 July 22)
Prepare for a mystical journey as we listen to Ryuichi Sakamoto's and Richard Horowitz's music from Bernardo Bertolucci's 1990 film The Sheltering Sky, along…
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XHM #464 - "Let's go walk on lunar landscapes" (2019 July 15)
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, we'll profile music from recent films, TV series & documentaries tied the first moon landing…
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XHM #463 - "These violent delights" (2019 July 08)
With the recent death of director Franco Zeffirelli (1923-2019), we'll profile Nino Rota's score from the notorious 1968 film adaptation of Romeo & Juliet…
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XHM #462 - "Break out the coney burgers, Old Dutch & persians" (2019 July 01)
Normally, gak spends Canada Day in Thunder Bay but this year, he brings the sounds of the Lakehead to you! Profile is on Bruce Peninsula's & Chris…
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XHM #461 - "We turn our camera on" (2019 June 24)
Herbie Hancock performs at this year's Vancouver International Jazz Festival, so amongst other performers, we'll profile his score to the 1966 thriller…
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XHM #460 - "Treaties in good faith" (2019 June 17)
With National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21st, we profile nêhiyawak's score to the 2017 documentary ôtênaw. We also have the 1st Vancouver International…
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XHM #459 - "Premiere planeteers" (2019 June 10)
Super eclectic episode as we profile Colin Stetson's score to the Hulu series The First. Ties into recent interpretations of Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3…
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XHM #458 - "Radio club: vice-choirmaster" (2019 June 03)
As summer approaches the northern hemisphere, let's embrace the extracurricular aspect of life by listening to music from Wes Anderson's 1998 breakout film…
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XHM #457 - "FTS, PBR" (2019 May 27)
With a Criterion remaster out imminently, it's time to get back into the world of David Lynch and his first collaboration with composer Angelo Badalamenti for…
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XHM #456 - "Lost lake" (2019 May 20)
For your Victoria Day programming, we offer James Holden's electronic score to the recent documentary A Cambodian Spring -- a story about a protest against…
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XHM #455 - "On the block with furious styles" (2019 May 13)
In honour of the director John Singleton (1968-2019), the back half of this episode will go hip hop as we profile music from his two biggest films: 1991's Boyz…
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XHM #454 - "Assemble, testify, preserve" (2019 May 06)
To pay tribute to the actor Bruno Ganz (1941-2019), it's high time to profile a favourite film he appears in: Wim Wender's 1987 classic Wings of Desire. Score…
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XHM #453 - "24 lies a second" (2019 April 29)
gak's back as he profiles the directory Stanley Donen (1924-2019). Primary focus will be on his 1963 film Charade, scored by the legendary Henry Mancini, but…
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XHM #452 - "What the flerken" (2019 April 15)
As everyone gears up for Easter and then Avengers: Endgame, it's time to profile Pinar Toprak's score to the most recent Marvel film, Captain Marvel. gak…
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XHM 451°F - "Cooking the books" (2019 April 08)
Looking at the numbers, our profile is on François Truffaut's 1966 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopic novel Fahrenheit 451. Keep the fires at bay!…
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XHM #450 - "Y'all be gettin' older but this show remains the same" (2019 April 01)
For your April Fools Day episode, instead of pulling the wool over your eyes, you'll just receive various manners of strange music. Tributes will be paid to…
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XHM #449 - "Hippie dalliance" (2019 March 25)
Last week's profile was on Valley of the Dolls so this all psychedelic episode is its spiritual sequel as we profile music from the 1970 satire Beyond the…
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XHM #448 - "March on the twos and fours" (2019 March 18)
More eulogies for you as we pay tribute to the German-American composer André Previn (1929-2019) and his varied approach to music. We'll hear selections from…
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XHM #447 - "Encore un fuzz" (2019 March 11)
Award season and Fundrive are over, so it's catch-up time with the recently deceased. Primary profile is on the French composer Michel Legrand (1932-2019) and…
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XHM #446 - "Stupendous contributions!" (2019 March 04)
CITR Fundrive 2019 is on! We're celebrating over 80 years on air and we need your help to make new milestones for our double ruby jubilee. We'll profile…
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XHM #445 - "Don't forget the musician in the back seat" (2019 February 25)
The 91st Academy Awards were handed out yesterday and plenty of surprise winners this time. Along with the winning score to Black Panther and the winning song…
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XHM #444 - "A jolly holiday" (2019 February 18)
For your Family Day pleasure, our final look at the Oscar nominees leading up to next week's 91st Academy Awards focuses on Marc Shaiman's nominated music from…
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XHM #443 - "Songs never fail to ease our minds" (2019 February 11)
Part 3 and 4 of our annual Academy Awards preview as we continue our listen to nominees for best original song and score. We'll dig back to the scores…
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XHM #442 - "Harlem avenues" (2019 February 04)
We continue on with our annual Oscar profile as we dive into Nicholas Britell's nominated score to the Barry Jenkins' film adaptation of If Beale Street Could…
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XHM #441 - "All power to all people" (2019 January 28)
With the nominees for the 91st Academy Awards announced last Tuesday, it's time for our annual profile on the nominated songs and scores. Kicking things off…
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XHM #440 - "Day made" (2019 January 21)
The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow but there's at least one winner that we're aware of already. Legendary Argentine composer…
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24 hours of radio art: hours 17 & 18 - "l'arte del rumori/shortwave nights" (2019 January 17)
On January 17, 1963, the Fluxist Robert Filliou declared that art was born a million years hence when a man dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Who…
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XHM #439 - "Combover comeback" (2019 January 14)
Marking eleven years to the day he debuted, gak lets the sunshine in with another weird little show. Along with profiles on actor/director Penny Marshall…
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XHM #438 - "One room shy of heaven" (2019 January 07)
A new dawn awaits you, along with a new year. We touch upon some Blade Runner along with a tribute to the Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley (1955-2018). The main focus…
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XMAS HAM MAYHEM #1 - “95 + 95 = BONUS RERUN” (2018 December 24)
In case you’ve never heard them before, relive some old holiday episodes in lieu of new material over the holidays. Like regifting but if it’s new to you…
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XHM #437 - "Check the who roast beast" (2018 December 17)
For our final episode of 2018, it's time for the 11th annual renegade Yuletide show! Featuring all types of carols to counter what you've overheard elsewhere…
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XHM #436 - "Wish it wouldn't get worse but it so could" (2018 December 10)
With 2018 winding down, it's time to review the year that is about to close. We'll look back on some of the film scores profiled in the past twelve months, so…
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XHM #435 - "Dance commander coven" (2018 December 03)
As 2018 enters its final month, it's time to profile one of the best film scores of the year as we listen to Radiohead's Thom Yorke and his soundtrack to the…
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XHM #434 - "Face front, true believers" (2018 November 26)
With the recent passing of the Marvel writer/editor/promoter Stan Lee (1922-2018), we delve into the world of superheroes, primarily tied to Spider-Man and the…
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XHM #433 - "Drawers & curtains" (2018 November 19)
Two film composers died recently, so we'll pay tribute to some of their music: Italy's Stelvio Cipriani (1937-2018) & France's Francis Lai (1932-2018). We'll…
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XHM #432 - "Angels on a sole survivor's shoulder" (2018 November 12)
In honour of Remembrance Day, marking the 100th anniversary of the Armistice Treaty that ended World War I, we'll go back 20 years to John Williams' score to…
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XHM #431 - "This vicious cabaret" (2018 November 05)
gak finally remembers, remembers the 5th of November as we profile Dario Marianelli's score to the 2005 film adaptation of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta. 1…
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XHM #430 - "You came and you took all the cheddar goblin" (2018 October 29)
Hallowe'en Horror Month concludes as we profile Jóhann Jóhannsson's final score: the gloriously insane Panos Cosmatos 2018 film Mandy. A certain man of the…
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XHM #429 - "Have you seen this lost synth?" (2018 October 22)
Le Matos score the 2018 horror mystery Summer of '84 for a prerecorded horror as Hallowe'en month continues. This episode was recorded at Exploding Global…
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XHM #428 - "Bloody M&M's" (2018 October 15)
Hallowe'en horror month continues as we profile the highly eclectic soundtrack to the 1994 dark satire Natural Born Killers. Industrial symphonies abound. 1…
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XHM #427 - "Nah, let's stay in" (2018 October 08)
Eeriely appropriate for visiting family & friends for Thanksgiving, we continue on with our horror month leading up to Hallowe'en with Michael Abels' score to…
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XHM #426 - "Cousin Matthew has seen some things" (2018 October 01)
It's the start to our semi-regular annual horror month! In the lead-up to Hallowe'en, we'll focus on scary scores for the rest of October and we start with…
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XHM #425 - "Gravity always wins" (2018 September 24)
It's been a while since we've had both John Barry and a space theme, so we'll mix both together with the super dark 1979 Disney live-action film The Black…
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XHM #424 - "Turkish prison tourism" (2018 September 17)
Looking through past episodes, we've never done a proper profile on the legendary disco producer Giorgio Moroder. We correct that this week as we go back 40…
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XHM #423 - "Just your regular provincial zombie hunt" (2018 September 10)
Peter Ricq is one half of the local electro act Humans. Ricq also made his full-length directoral debut this year with the comedic horror film Dead Shack, so…
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XHM #422 - "School's in forever" (2018 September 03)
Labour Day means the return of school. What better way to kick off a year of education with selections from Anna Meredith's score to the 2018 film Eighth…
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XHM #421 - "A corsage for the cortege" (2018 August 27)
gak's back and profiling the composer Patrick Williams (1939-2018) and scores from his films Cuba and Breaking Away. We also pay tribute to the Queen of Soul…
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XHM #420 - "Nil carborundum illegitimi" (2018 August 13)
Following up our recent profile on The Handmaiden, we swing from past oppression to eerily prescient dystopic future oppression with two different scores tied…
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XHM #419 - "The book of love has music in it" (2018 August 06)
For your British Columbia Day broadcast, which lines up nicely with Vancouver Pride activities, our profile will be on the score to the 2016 South Korean…
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XHM #418 - "Shimmer with a hint of glimmer" (2018 July 30)
Connecting a bit with last week's episode with Portishead, this week's profile is on Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury's recent score to the Alex Garland scifi…
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XHM #417 - "Outsiders utopia" (2018 July 23)
Paul Wright's 2017 documentary Arcadia uses 100 years of film footage to highlight England's relationship with nature. The score by Adrian Utley (Portishead) &…
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XHM #416 - "Only fools by the marina" (2018 July 16)
Long in the docks but appropriate for the summer weather, it's our yacht rock episode! Going back to the timeframe of 1976-1984 when the West Coast pop sound…
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XHM #415 - "Summer will not go by so quickly" (2018 July 09)
gak's back and he's going back 50 years to Michel Legrand's playful score to the original film version of The Thomas Crown Affair. Keep all your valuables…
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XHM #414 - "True sax & violins" (2018 June 25)
Although he has scored many a film, Colin Stetson is gaining regard for his evil music from the 2018 supernatural horror Hereditary. There's more TD…
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XHM #413 - "Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem" (2018 June 18)
Run away with us as we hear selections from the De Wolfe Music library that were used in the 1975 absurd comedy Monty Python & The Holy Grail. None of those…
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XHM #412 - "None of that intelligent life crap here" (2018 June 11)
We'll stay in space as we go back to 1974 with John Carpenter's debut film: Dark Star. BOMB #1 - Quakers: Glide (Quakers, 2012) Stones Throw BOMB #2 - Black…