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Riddles from the Border Regions, 10/23/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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A HEAD AND A TONGUE MADE OF SILVER OR BRASS...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Riddles from the Border Regions, 10/2/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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IT IS NOT UP, IT'S NOT ABOVE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 9/18/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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HANDS AND HIPS ARTICULATE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR -- Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on the interview 50 years in the making
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Vikram Jayanti, September 10, 2010, San Francisco, CA, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on lies, truth, and Hollywood Babylon in his doc, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR

  • Added: Sep 13, 2010
  • Length: 21:01
Riddles from the Border Regions, 9/4/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THREE FEET I HAVE ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
WINNEBAGO MAN -- Cult icon Jack Rebney and director Ben Steinbauer talk about their documentary.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Ben Steinbauer and Jack Rebney, San Francisco, July 30, 2010, Credit: Andrea Chase
WINNEBAGO MAN subject Jack Rebney and its director Ben Steinbauer talk logic, politics, and the pleasures and perils of making a film about a cultu...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2010
  • Length: 22:43
Riddles from the Border Regions, 8/14/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I HAVE STORIES I CAN'T TELL...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 7/31/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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TO US GIVE YOUR PRAISE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 7/17/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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LIKE A SIGN SAYS HOUSE IS SOLD...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
That Barbershop Chord
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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They have no band. No backup. No room for error. In a barbershop quartet the only instrument is the vocal chords.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 06:14
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/29/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I LEAP FORTH NEEDING FOOD AND AIR ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD -- George A. Romero talks about his latest zombie flick.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: George A. Romero, May 13, 2010, San Francisco, CA, Credit: Andrea Chase
George A. Romero on SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD

  • Added: May 15, 2010
  • Length: 09:33
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/15/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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MANY THE DELICATE BONES IN MY WINGS...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 11, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/1/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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MY SHINGLE IS A CANDY STICK...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
International Guitar Night: Four virtuosos from Germany, Israel and America talk about a convergence of finger-style guitar
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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There are some guitarists for whom one insturment isan't enough. Brian Gore is one of them. For the past decade, he’s been realizing his ambition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/17/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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WHERE RIGHT AND LEFT ARE TURNED ON END...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mellodrama: the Signature Sound of Progressive Rock
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Director Dianna Dilworth
The Mellotron was the sound of progressive rock and space music in the 1970s. Before digital synthesizers, it was an instrument that played back t...

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
An exotic forest of sensual grooves, ambient atmospheres and intoxicating melodies
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Ylang ylang is a flowering tree that grows in South Asia, and on his album, Ylang, Robert Rich has sculpted another exotic forest of sound, full of...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Violinist Anna Schaad's Dream Within a Dream
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Violinist Anna Schaad’s music is steeped in fantasy and inspired by her Navy pilot husband. Though heavily Celtic influenced, she takes an electro...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
English electronic duo plugs in with vintage synthesizers and heads into space
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve of Arc, Credit: Kimberly Haas
English electronic musicians Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy perform in a pair of cockpits of keyboards and gear. They specialize in a sound that has r...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
Kronos Quartet: Four Decades of Breaking the String Quartet Rules
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Kronos Quartet, Credit: Michael Wilson
In the world of string quartets there is before and after Kronos, the ensemble that revolutionized the form, playing new music from Steve Reich to...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Orchestrion: Pat Metheny's One-Man Band
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 2/20/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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TULIPS PLANTED...

Bought by KMXT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Feb 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Godfather of Ambient Chamber Music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Harold Budd started out as a jazz drummer in the 1950s, then became a student of Schoenberg style serialism. Against that backdrop, he revolted th...

Bought by KUT and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2

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