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Full Moon Hacksaw #1651 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/20/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Revisiting old digital, vinyl, even one cassette, we mix with a healthy flow of constantly arriving new releases. Let’s build a foundation of the b...

Bought by WMOT, KMXT, WVBI-LP, WOUB, WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 7
#18-30 CMNW: Beethoven and Poulenc
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Imani Winds play the Poulenc Sextet

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Full Moon Hacksaw #1639 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/28/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A brand-new salsa disc by Orchesta Akokan gets us going, as does also new Rob Dixon and Charlie Hunter funky swinging sax with 7-string guitar. Muc...

Bought by WMOT, KPIP-LP, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 9
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1632 (Hour 1 & 2) 05/10/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Prime Kenny Dorham in a Latin setting is the vintage opener, Heather Bambrick is a versatile and multitalented singer and broadcaster with fabulous...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WVBI-LP, WOUB, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WMOT and more


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
Darkest Hour
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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There have been three films this year featuring the rescue of British troops from Dunkirk, and two about Winston Churchill. I’m not sure why this w...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:32
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1613 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/28/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The roaring, swinging 1964 version of Maynard Ferguson gives us the blues yet another day, both swing and blues are retained for Johnny Taylor. Wit...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT, KSRQ, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, Troon Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 10
The Executioner
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
Logan Lucky
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:24
The Square
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The surprise winner at the Cannes Film Festival this year was The Square, a provocative and disturbing satire from Swedish writer-director Ruben Ős...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
The Florida Project
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:31
Jane
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Drawn from over 100 hours of footage from the National Geographic archives that was long believed to be lost, and featuring a gorgeous musical scor...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:14
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1606 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/09/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Poncho Sanchez is at the top of his game with Latin Spirits, Marion McPartland lays it in the groove and JP Soars is under a Memphis full moon. Bi...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 7
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1605 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/02/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Guitarist Pat Martino has recorded so prolifically and somehow we’ve had a slew of his 1970s material so we begin there, continuing thankfully with...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, WMOT and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6
Dunkirk
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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It looks like the big blockbuster of the summer is not a superhero or science fiction film, but, surprisingly, a movie set during World War II. Dun...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:33
The Big Sick
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Actor and comedian Kumail Nadjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon wrote a screenplay about their own very unusual courtship. With Michael Showalter d...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:49
The White Sheik
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Among the films of Federico Fellini are a few that have achieved classic status, and deservedly so, such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8 ½. But ...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1603 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/19/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Dizzy Gillespie wrote “You got to know the rules before you break ‘em.” From his orchestra’s rhythm section was born the MJQ. Sixty years later oth...

Bought by KRZA, WVBI-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WOUB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 7
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1599 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/21/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The impeccable British jazz critic/writer/musician Leonard Feather assembles a studio of all-stars to open this program, followed by funky guitar b...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 8
Citizen Kane: The Technique
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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When you put something on a pedestal, it becomes a prime target for pigeons. Or to put it another way – if a certain movie consistently shows up on...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 05:52
Citizen Kane: The Story
From: KXCI
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This week, as promised, I’m continuing my discussion of Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ famous debut film from 1941. Last time I talked about why the f...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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In 1996, Nick Gold, a British music producer, asked the American guitarist Ry Cooder to come to Havana and help him record a few sessions with some...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:43
Conductors As Composer
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Stanis?aw Skrowaczewski, 1981, Credit: Irena Jarosi?ska / PAP
Conductors lead orchestras and other musical groups during performances and recording sessions. Composers write and arrange original music.

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, WETS, KHSU and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1592 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/03/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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We’ve got another eclectic combination of styles and moods his session. Pure Paul Desmond begins with his dry martini sax sound, Lizz Wright contri...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1588 (Hour 1 & 2) - 07/06/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Back to our old tricks, unintentionally nothing from the new millennium even made the cut this day. Instead simple inspiration from one track leadi...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, WKAR, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 6
Where Is My Friends House?
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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We lost a lot of people last year. One of them particularly close to my heart was the Iranian writer/director Abbas Kiarostami, who died in July of...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:38