CiTR -- The Burrow: Recent Episodes
CiTR & Discorder Magazine
Noise Rock, Alternative, Post-Rock, with a nice blend of old 'classics' and newer releases. Interviews w/ other living humans.
Recordings from the second edition of "RNR". Not featured on the program is a performance from Garbage Dreams (aka Adrienne Labelle).
Recorded sets from a show put on at the Toast Collective on Saturday, January 27th. First of a series of interdisciplinary shows.
Featuring:
- a short story from Ethan Reyes
- a nonfiction piece from AdB (aka Alex de Boer)
- a long-form poem from Roman Totale XVII (aka myself, Andy Resto)
- covers of T. Rex by Pukesword
Joined by Shaunn Watt, co-organizer of Big Joy Festival, to chat about the festival fifth (and final) year and listen to excerpts from performers.
Joined by Sabrina Schroeder to chat about her practice and upcoming performance at Tidal~Signal II.
Interview with Rebecca Whitling of local ensemble Standing Wave, chatting about their upcoming World New Music Days performance among other things.
Joined on the phone by Giorgio Magnanensi, Artistic Director of Vancouver New Music, to chat about World New Music Days, Nov. 2-8.
Some favorite Canadian/local releases of the year thus far, plus some current obsessions.
Ace returns to co-host. Theme of INFLUENCE - conscious and unconscious. For some reason centred around Trent Reznor.
Live set from Lee Hutzulak's project Dixie's Death Pool. New album Twilight, Sound Mountain out on Saturday, May 27. Beautiful stuff.
Interview with Kim Gaynor, director of the Vancouver Opera Festival. Operatic sounds and voices.
Joined by Meichen Waxer and Brynn McNabb to chat about Act 1, a multidisciplinary show being put on at VIVO Media Arts Centre.
Selections from artists performing, curated by John Brennan.
Minimal classical as has been the trend for sometime, but we pull it back in to some solid noise rock in the middle as well.
Joined in the studio by Peggy Lee for a live improvised set. Interview with Dylan van der Schyff, Artistic Director of this year's Improvised Music Meeting.
Live set from John Brennan (Eschatons, Group Vision). Improvised drumming.
Piercing music.
Say it three times fast. Joined by local electronic composers Lee Hutzulak and Dave Leith, aka Moth Mouth for a great set in the cavernous studios.
New local group Tulip joins the show to play some tunes and chat about music videos, Nelly, colouring books and other relevant topics.
Andrea Lukic comes back on the program. Excerpts from her solo project Hick in eager anticipation of her Big Joy Festival appearance.
Chats about process, precision, paranoia, perplexities...ellipses...
Joined by local noise/experimental electronic artist Sara Gold to chat about her upcoming performance as part of Big Joy Fest 2016. Feedback loops and other esoterica.
Guest host Brit Bachmann interviews artist and researcher Alexandra Bischoff to introduce some local, historically feminist organizations like Women In Focus and Vancouver Women's Bookstore, based on archive research with the Belkin Gallery and 221A. Brit and Ali play some tunes, too...
A rough one. Patchwork. Shred it together with all of the other clippings and manual outreach.
A comparison between the new Puzzlehead tape, Fred's Man Cave, and The Fall's Dragnet.
Chat over the phone w/ Puzzlehead's Katayoon (Other Jesus, Crazy Bugs. et. al.).
Ace Martens becomes the first ever repeat guest on the program. Unbelievable. Serious discussions on life, songwriting, responsibility, and theatre.
Vancouver sound artist Kate Rissiek, aka Rusalka, joins as a guest host. Music from machines, insects, spirits, and lastly, humans.
Releases from Montreal labels Misery Loves Co. and Talking Skull. Noise with a classical twist and lo-fi with a country twang.
Guest host Brit Bachmann genre-surfs The Burrow, with interspersed textbook philosophy on dreams, blood, and paths that lead back to dreams. Like a musical, body conscious ouroboros.
This one seems to work out in three parts -
Part I: classical-ambient-noise
(transition)
Part II: Dense lyricism
Part III: Whacky/seriousss post-punk
Brief mention of the passing of Alan Vega, rest in peace. New ones from Koban, Spray Paint, Yung, Cheena. Pop punk leaning towards the obscure.
Calgary's Dri Hiev help curate the playlist this week. Good Canadian post-punk + whatever other gems I decide to toss in there.
Joined in-studio for an interview w/ Toronto-based jazz trio Autobahn. In town for their Vancouver Jazz Festival appearance.
A chat with author/composer/performer Norman Nawrocki + a few live improvised spoken word/violin looping pieces.
Just really nice sounds and words. Tribute to Ian Curtis, a classic from under the carpet, French obscurities, folk from the heartland, edifying tales, and the holy spermic brotherhood. Wonderful.
Joined in studio by local gamelan composer Michael O'Neill. Chatting about his upcoming show Ventriloquial Investigations.
Interview w/ Justin Frye, creative force behind New York's PC Worship. A chance to sneak in some avant-garde jazz/improvisational music from Karoline Leblanc, Horse Lords and Steve Lacy.
New releases from Low Levels and Softess.
Joined by Ashley Shadow and Ryan Beattie to chat about Ashley's eponymous debut solo LP, as well as the new Himalayan Bear release. They help guest curate the show, and sneak in some B. Springsteen, Irma Thomas et. al. as well as some good Vancouver cuts.
A dive into some old 4ad originals. Neo-classicals to kick things off. Jam-packed with sound.
Back to just playing tunes on my own. The conjugation of "nennen." Six minutes, fifteen seconds left.
Bleak rock from New York-via-Athens three-piece Bambara. Entertaining chat with a variety of distractions, including a man sitting on a roof with a very large balloon. Talk about their new record SWARM and some other good Athens groups.
Harsh ambience to kick things off.
Interview w/ New York-based no wave/post-punk group Wall while in a noisy car. Convinces me to play Frank Zappa and the B-52s.
Interview with New York violin duo Conrad and Pauline Kim Harris, aka String Noise. Chatting about their new tape, The Book of Strange Positions, released on Northern Spy, as well as the relationship between punk rock and classical music.
Lots of avant-garde tunes mixed with some classic grimy weirdo punk.
Interview w/ Gwenno from Wales, discussing her 2015 record Y Dydd Olaf, based on a Welsh sci-fi novel of the same name. Other pop esoterica from Vancouver.
Trying to make that cash for CiTR. Thanks to Thrill Jockey, Constellation, Northern Spy, and Mint Records for their contributions to the program.
Interview w/ founding member of Rhythm Activism and accomplished author, activist, et. al. A talk about his new projects Wild Plains and Crocodile, along with his upcoming book readings here in Vancouver.
Music from The Ex and more.
Seattle grimy/noisy punk trio So Pitted visits the station for a live set and interview. Songs from their brand new record neo out on Sub Pop, discussions about airplanes, celebrity sightings, and Robert de Niro.
Mood music for a dreary, lonesome day. Caroline K, Nocturnal Emissions, and more dark reveries.
We go back to days lying in bed with the lights off, listening to Siouxsie et. al. Then lovely, challenging voices.
An interview with Mick Barr, bassist of New York metal band Krallice. Discuss their new EP Hyperion, modern Italian classical music and more.
Static dissonance, metallic pulses. Featuring new Tortoise and Pop 1280. Classic Birthday Party and experimental black metal.
Blackstar came out, and D. Bowie passed away. A chasm now left - not to be understood, but to plumb its depths.
Playing some favorites from the year based on various criteria - best albums, best live shows, best personal discoveries.
Digging through the recently unearthed '80s cassette noise archives. New tracks from Felicia Atkinson and Hexigen. PC Worship again, run it into the ground.
Guest hosts Steve and Scott of creepy local act Kensington Gore. Playing everyone's favorite nightmare music.
Was fortunate enough to have a chance to interview John Lydon of Public Image Ltd. over the weekend - it was brief, but informative. Experimental compositions for the most part outside of that.
Chandra Melting Tallow, aka Mourning Coup, stops by to chat about her upcoming album release show, miming, and more.
A conversation w/ Quaaludes, all-female punk group from San Francisco, on their "lick my Cheez-it" tour.
Sat down w/ Montreal four-piece Ought as they came through the 'Couv. Topics ranging from: audiobooks, showers, physics, theology - oh, and music.
Some experimental black metal, whiny/contemplative punk rock, outlaw rock, disgruntled young adults, and all that jazz
Interview w/ Haley Fohr, aka Circuit des Yeux, before dinner at the Union. Also, preview of Sacred Sound Club 004.
A chat with Jenny Hval about her new album Apocalypse, girl and other such spiritual topics
Interview from the rickshaw w/ Toronto punk trio Metz. Sounds from the 6 and elsewhere.
Re-broadcast of Jerk Jails performance from July 29th; music from Ought, Deaf Wish, Uj3rk5, Gun Club
Noise duo Virgins joins over the phone for a chat - additional sounds from SYR, Wolf Eyes, Minimal Violence, White Visitation, the Boss
Feat. the music of the Fall group, Low Life, Nots, The Telescopes, Nervous Operator and more. Plus a drop in from some lovely children
Joined by Burnside of Inherent Vices, Treacherous Machete, Tight Solid for some summer vibes
Post-punk trio from down south help co-host the program - Nico, Yoko Ono, Brian Eno, et. al.
Interview w/ the above, topics include foraging, Odysseus, indifference, isolation, and more!
Music to celebrate the name, the queen, and the capitol. Plus some film reviews with a drop-in guest.
Loud rock 'n' roll, y'know? Feat. Jesus and Mary Chain, Butthole Surfers, Mutators, Needs, Shilpa Ray and more
Interview w/ Sanae Yamada from Moon Duo - adolescents, Krzhizhanovsky, the Simpsons, etc.
Dark wave drone to frantic noise to experimental black metal and back to dark wave again.
Special edition of The Burrow, featuring songs from specially curated, limited edition mixtapes. CiTR and The Fall - does it get any better?
Joined by Ashlee Luk of lie, //zoo, and more! Classic vancouver punk, minimal synth techno, what more could you ask for?
New Freak Heat Waves, Shearing Pinx; some old classics from Magazine and Throwing Muses; dark burners to close things out
The Burrow, Jan. 26th, 2014, co-hosted by Vancouver's own Animal Bodies - it's a killer scene, man
From extreme metal to darkwave goth to bright, british post-punk - and then back into a hole
The pulses of canines keep us on track as we give a listen to Nihilist Spasm Band, Sun City Girls, Hermann Nitsch and more sounds of the season
Musings on punishment, metal from the deep south, space monsters, Thurston Moore and...
Katayoon (Other Jesus, Horses Records) and Spencer (Cowards) join me to promote the "Uncovered" Halloween show at Red Gate and their Crass cover band PENIS ENVY...Spooky tracks from The Fall, Lydia Lunch, Crass, The Ex, and more!!
Well, its lasted three weeks now...
Episode 3 features new albums from Iceage and Pharmakon, a quick ode to Cowards, punk compilations from Vancouver and Brazil, and of course, The Fall
Alright, I guess it's official now. First episode features the new Shellac and Iceage, along with locals //zoo, Mutators, Failing, and others.