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Exploding Head Movies

CiTR & Discorder Magazine

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.

tv & film

All Episodes

119:08

XHM #598 - "If you build Iowa, heaven will come"...

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2022/04/12

With the Major League Baseball season starting last week, this episode pays tribute to that pasttime with a profile on James Horner's score to the 1989 sports fantasy Field of Dreams. We also recognize Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022) with songs from his 1971 film The Last Picture Show. Podcast subscribers: yep, citr.ca was offline for a month so you'll see all the recent episodes starting popping up in your feed and on your devices as we play catch up. 1. Mira Calix: Fundamental Things (Absent Origin,

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XHM #597 - "Solitary respite" (2022 April 04)

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2022/04/05

With awards season over, it's time an overdue Part 8 of our all-ambient episodes, this time focusing on soothing sounds that came out last year. 1. Kaleema: Ambrosia (Útera, 2021) Wonderwheel 2. Area 3: Whale (Amb, 2021) Khotin Industries 3. M Crook + Oxherding: Shelter in Place (Shelter in Place, 2021) self-released 4. A Winged Victory for the Sullen: The Celestial City (Invisible Cities/Le Città Invisibili, 2021) Artificial Pine Arch Manufacturing 5. Connect_icut: Lonely in the House (Talisman,

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XHM #596 - "Home! is where the sound is" (2022 March 28)

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2022/03/29

Our Oscar season draws to a close as the 94th Academy Awards were handed out yesterday in a wild ceremony. Along with a recap of the winners, we'll profile Marius De Vreis' score from this year's Best Picture: Coda. 1. Emilia Jones: Beyond the Shore (CODA OST, 2021) Republic 2. Loscil: Clara (Clara, 2021) Kranky 3. Hans Zimmer: Leaving Caladan (Dune OST, 2021) WaterTower 4. Hans Zimmer: Ornithopter (Dune OST, 2021) WaterTower 5. Hans Zimmer: Visions of Chani (Dune OST, 2021) WaterTower 6. Billie

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122:43

XHM #595 - "Toutes les petites chansons" (2022 March 21)

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2022/03/22

Since we've wrapped up our profiles on the best original scores for this Sunday's Academy Awards, Part 6 of our annual Oscar episodes focuses on the nominated songs from the films No Time to Die, Encanto, King Richard, Belfast & Four Good Days. We'll touch upon some songs that missed the cut and then pay tribute to Canadian director (1963-2021) with music from some of his films & television series. 1. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul: It Hit Me (Topical Dancer, 2022) Deewee/Because Music 2. No

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XHM #594 - "But we love sand!" (2022 March 14)

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2022/03/15

For the 5th part of our annual Oscar profiles, we'll listen again at Hans Zimmer's score to Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune since it became nominated since we last spoke about it. We'll also a lot of live music options in Vancouver this week as pandemic mandates lift amongst more Ukrainian music and tributes to the recently deceased. 1. Dragobrath: Intro (Fra Myrer Taake, 2010) Eastside 2. The Chieftains: The Foggy Dew [w.Sinéad O'Connor] (The Long Black Veil, 1995) RCA Victor 3. Thomas

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XHM #593 - "Adjacent agencies" (2022 March 07)

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2022/03/08

Part IV of our annual Oscars profile looks at Alberto Iglesias' nominated score to Pedro Almodóvar's 2021 film Parallel Mothers. We also pay tribute to Mark Lanegan (1964-2022) and the continued Ukraine resistance. 1. PJ Harvey: Ballad of the Soldier's Wife (September Songs: Music of Kurt Weill, 1997) Sony Classical 2. Robert Fripp: Elegy [Nashville 2006 March 1] (Music for Quiet Moments, 2021) Discipline Global Mobile/Panegyric/Wowow/Inner Knot 3. The Polka Drifters: A Soldier's Lament (Ukrainian

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121:28

XHM #592 - "Maybe a merciful comet will strike us"...

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2022/03/01

As Oscar season continues, we dive into Nicholas Britell's nominated score to Adam McKay's satire Don't Look Up. We also explore music associated with a defiant Ukraine and wars since apparently, a pandemic wasn't enough strife on this planet. Go invade yourself; we aren't doomed despite how the sky feels. 1. Gavin Friday: You Me and World War Three (Shag Tobacco, 1995) Island/Polygram 2. Aidan Baker: Jigras (The Sheep Look Up, 2022) Bibliotapes 3. Valentin Silvestrov via Radio Ukraine International

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123:01

XHM #591 - "We still talk about Oscar, ar, ar" (2022...

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2022/02/22

Part 2 of our annual Oscar nominee profile dives into the world of Encanto, the recent Disney film with a nominated score by Germain Franco and a song by Lin-Manual Miranda. We also profile plenty of associated Colombian and Latin urban music amidst tributes to Dallas Good, Bappi Lahiri and the completed Beijing Olympics. Happy Family Day! 1. Spoon: The Hardest Cut (Lucifer on the Sofa, 2022) Matador 2. Mount Maxwell: Entropics (Senescent Vivarium, 2022) Hotham Sound 3. The Sadies: Wasn't Born to

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126:01

XHM #590 - "The universe is barking mad, darling"...

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2022/02/15

Oscar season is upon us again, so since the nominees for the 94th Academy Awards were announced last week, we bring our profiles on the nom'd scores and songs by focusing on Jonny Greenwood's score to the 2021 film The Power of the Dog, allowing us to also discuss other recent soundtrack work by the Radiohead member for films like Spencer and Licorice Pizza. It's also Valentine's Day and our first episode after CITR's recent Fundrive, so prepare to bask in the love. 1. Tsunxmi: Station ID (Broken on

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XHM #589 - "Bass fight with coho" (2022 February 07)

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2022/02/08

It's Fundrive time again at CITR! This year's theme is "Plenty of Fish in the Sea...Eye Tea Arrrrr" so amongst some vague piscine themes, we'll profile music from Edgar Wright's latest film, 2021's Last Night in Soho. If you can, donate today during the month of 2022 February: https://www.citr.ca/donate Fundrive programming will go until February 10th. Des chansons pour des poissons: 1. The Marvelettes: Too Many Fish in the Sea (The Marvelettes Greatest Hits, 1964) Motown 2. Yves Léveillé: Une Nuit

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121:50

XHM #588 - "Add panache and savoir faire to any...

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2022/02/01

In honour of actor/director Sidney Poitier (1927-2022), we feature some of the music associated with his long history in filmmaking, which shares some overlap with songwriter Marilyn Bergman (1928-2022) who worked on many a Hollywood song. February also marks the start to Black History Month and the Year of the Tiger so let's begin the beguine. 1. St Vincent: Year of the Tiger (Strange Mercy, 2011) 4AD 2. Hélène Vogelsinger: Apparition (Reminiscence, 2021) Modularfield 3. Fucked Up: Year of the

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118:53

XHM #587 - "Reborn through waves of grief as we try...

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2022/01/25

With Matrix: Resurrections widely released, we listen to Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer's score from that film along with Don Davis' music from the original series from 20 years ago. We also pay tribute to Vancouer singer Megan MacDonald who died suddenly last weekend. 1. Mount Eerie: Do Not Be Afraid (Singers, 2005) self-released 2. Roland Kayn: Matrix (Simultan, 1977) Colosseum 3. The Poison Dart: All Things Said Must Pass (Get Hot, 2006) Marriage 4. International Falls: Ghouls 'n' Ghosts (The

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2022: 24 Hours of Radio Art (Hours 19 + 20) - "laqad...

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2022/01/18

24 Hours of Radio Art lands on a Monday this year, so Exploding Head Movies morphs in honour of all the noise that mixes field recordings from parts of the world that feel even further away during a pandemic along with newish experimental music and tributes to those composers who recently left us, including the main chair sitter himself Alvin Lucier (1931-2021). [01] Socotra Soundscapes: 2013-03-13 Al Mukalla, Yemen - Felix Airways Takeoff Announcement & Pre-Flight Prayer [Riyan to Socotra] (Socotra

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2022: 24 Hours of Radio Art (Bonus Hour) - "A song...

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2022/01/18

Prepped for this year's 24 Hours of Radio Art but missing a cutoff time, this is a superlong version of Alvin Lucier doing his seminal sound art piece I Am Sitting in a Room from a 1980 recording. You can hear that generation loss and overtone frequency collection build up over the 45 minutes. This will eventually air at a later time on CITR as part of a capsule radio art episode via Bepi Crespan's show, which you can listen on Fridays 2-3:30pm Pacific or anytime via

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XHM #586 - "Drivin' to yet another rodeo" (2021...

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2022/01/11

gak marks 14 years on CITR with a long-overdue countrified episode tied to Merle Haggard (1937-2016), the western sound of Bakersfield, California and music from the video game Red Dead Redemption 2. Yeehaw!1. Laura Cantrell: 14th Street (Humming by the Flowered Vine, 2005) Matador 2. Jeff Gunn, Koi Anunta & Mike Sleath: Spiritus Momentous [Never Give Up, Opus 2] (Momentum, 2022) self-released 3. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Going Where the Lonely Go (Raise the Roof [deluxe edition], 2021)

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XHM #585 - "The taste varies from person to person"...

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2022/01/04

The year is 2022 and despite all our hopes, we enter uncertain times, which we'll underscore since this new year is the setting of the 1973 dystopian science fiction film Soylent Green with music by Fred Myrow. We play catchup with recent departed souls along with digging up some best-of songs from 2021 whilst teasing at music already due out this year. 1. Ann-Margret: New Year's Greetings (Christmas/New Year's Greetings 7", 1963) RCA Victor/Groove 2. The Beatles: Like Making an Album?/I've Got a

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XHM #584 - "The old years continue to barge forwards"...

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2021/12/28

As 2021 draws to a merciful close, we take stock of the music released this year and focus on Japanese Breakfast, who had a busy year, including the soundtrack to the video game Sable. We don't do "best of"'s here; we review the past 12 months and press forwards. 1. CFCF: welcome.WAV (Memoryland, 2021) BGM 2. DJ Harrison: 2021 Disco (Tales from the Old Dominion, 2021) Stones Throw 3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra: Movement 6 (Promises, 2021) Luaka Bop 4. TV Priest:

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XHM #583 - "Kent Kringle & his friend the Krentmpus"...

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2021/12/21

For our 14th annual holiday episode, Mr Graig Kent of Toronto nobly volunteered to sift through hundreds of weird Christmas songs to come up with a joyful selection of atypical carols amidst the doom & continued gloom that is Covid Christmas II. Tweaks were made for airtime amongst other breaking tune as we profile Henry Mancini's & Leslie Bricusse's music from 1985 Santa Claus: The Movie. Ho ho ho! Remember kids: Christmas trees and gasoline don't mix. 1. The Vancouver Midmores to the Regina

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XHM #582 - "A little night music for you milliners"...

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2021/12/14

Tonight, tonight, we pay tribute to the great American musical composer Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021), tackling only some of his notable pieces in his glorious songbook (since he wrote a lot of great pieces), leading up to the recent Steven Spielberg remake of West Side Story. 1. David Bowie: New Angels of Promise [Omikron: The Nomad Soul version, remastered] (Brilliant Adventure 1992-2001, 2021) Parlophone/ISO 2. Modula: Omicron Ballad [Sisterhood remix] (Omicron Ballad 12", 2014) Tief 3. Courtney

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XHM #581 - "One foot always in the forest" (2021...

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2021/12/07

In honour of Finnish Independence Day today, we celebrate one of my homeland's most wonderful exports: the Moomin! Tove Jansson's characters have been adapted into multiple television & film adaptations, so we'll sample many of the sounds found in that valley, along with the rest of Finland and some of its Canadian diaspora. All responsibilities are only a nuisance. YKSI/ The Tragically Hip: Montreal [live] (Saskadelphia EP, 2021) Universal KAKSI/ Loscil: Orta (Clara, 2021) Kranky KOLME/ Wallgrin:

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