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Van Sounds
by Fil Corbitt
Music journalism, travel writing and experimental radio.
Episodes
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Introducing: The Wind
I've started a new show, go subscribe! https://linktr.ee/thewind https://thewind.org/ - Hey all, Fil here. I have started a new podcast. It's called The Wind and I am very excited to share it with you. Head over to TheWind.org to subscribe (since it's a new show, it may not yet be searchable in…
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Dead Air
Silence part 3. No transmission. Bellwether, KUNR, Nothing on the air.
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Postcard - Tongue, Scotland
“Language Deficit is attention deficit. As we further deplete our ability to name, describe particular aspects of our places, our competence for understanding and imagining possible relationships with non-human nature is correspondingly depleted.” -Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks
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Lucien • Part 4
The final episode of the Lucien series. Soundtrack available at vansounds.bandcamp.com
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Lucien • Part 3
Part 3 of a 4 part series.
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Lucien • Part 2
Part 2 of a 4 part series. Music by Kent Irwin, Em Jiang and myself.
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Lucien • Part 1
"Lucien" - Part 1 of a 4 part series. Music by Kent Irwin. Thanks to Mignon Fogarty of Grammar Girl.
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Postcard - Tokyo 東京
Postcard from Japan by Rose McMackin // Find her at https://www.disasterologie.com
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Current Joys
Nick Rattigan of the band Current Joys checks in every week while touring North America.
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Postcard - Avalanche Cannon
Avalanche Cannon Subscribe Merch
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A shout across the valley
How did a singing style from the lungs of swiss herders make it into the mouths of the cowboys? An examination of voice breaking, wildness and parallel histories in North America. Yodel playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNYDyXn6qso&list=PLkNGcT8rdUVlvvYM-VvcHJYwpP58vnAdz Music, Book links...
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Bonus: Willie Watson Interview
A 2013 conversation with Willie Watson from the new Coen Brothers Movie. Watson plays a singing gunslinger in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs."
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It Will Never Be Quiet Again
A constant ringing in your ears.
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Postcard - Florence, Italy
Subscribe Buy Merch Postcard - Florence, Italy Contributor Lauren Baker reads a postcard from Florence. Recorded on a hike in the Sierra Nevada. Photo: Lauren Baker Music: Master Spirit by I Believe, available through Interactive Test
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A Hobo, A Tramp, A Bum
You are what you do but sometimes that line moves, then blurs. Producer Em Jiang and I wander around the tracks at different speeds.
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A Catalogue of Nights
"In January I left my home for 6 months of wandering and, of course, one of the main things I explored were the infinite shades of night in each new place. What I noticed more than ever is that every night is a finger print – each is unique, with no one the same as another. The sounds tell the...
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Fool's Gold!
Extra Extra!! From the banks of the Satoshi River to the banks of the Reese River, a mining-town newspaper that propped up a honest-to-goodness LIARS CLUB, no lie, and a story from the city who built itself on such falsehoods. The secret history of bitcoin? The Toiyabe Mole Man in the mines of…
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KATHMANDU 666
There is a lot of death metal bands in Kathmandu, Nepal. Let's figure out why. Oh, and my mom will be there. She'll help interview the metal bands.
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The Silent Piece
When composer John Cage spoke of "The Silent Piece," he wasn't talking about 4:33. So, what was he talking about?
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Postcard #11 - Bus 104
A guest postcard from Julian Guy, navigating the bus system of Montevideo Uruguay.
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Mt. Julius Caesar
The power and process of naming mountains. -- Beginning with an ear hike through John Muir National Forest, this episode dives into the process of naming places. Denali, Jefferson Davis Peak(s), and literary reflection on the need to give human names to mountains.
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Postcard #10 - Bus 41
New Baseball Shirt: https://vansounds.bandcamp.com/merch/baseball-shirt This episode was scored by Julian Jacobs. Lightning over Rural Argentina, rest-stop buffet, sleep paralysis
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Picon
The Picon Punch in the Great Basin. Exploring shades of brown.
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Snake in the Grass
Slithering through the skyscrapers on São Paulo. Playing basements, garages and living rooms. Listening. ••• This Episode of Van Sounds was brought to you by Astray Goods Company -- handcrafted backpacks made to last a lifetime. Back them on Kickstarter or visit astraygoods.co
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Postcard #9 - Pacifica, CA
I'm in Uruguay right now without a computer, so here's Van Sounds' first guest postcard.
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Repeater
I have 100 theme songs in my head. Dallas Taylor of podcast 20khz, and an interview with the mysterious Break Master Cylinder.
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Are you there?
Photographing from afar. Interviewing through the telephone. Asking bartenders about their lives. Hop in, let's take a ride. Travel Podcast, travelpodcast, travel, music, places, people and places, sense of place, where am i? what is this in my hand? Music: Roots connective by Yclept Insan The…
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Postcard #8 - Globe, Az
A story about promotional records, a cactus in the snow and hacking payphones.
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Rule of Thumb
In a rare how-to guide from Van Sounds, you'll hear from well-known hitchhikers (including the founder of Hitchwiki.org), and learn how to stick your thumb up.
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Postcard #7 - Cuzco
Bell tower belting, moto taxis sqealing, teenagers making out.
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Island
An island is a piece of land surrounded by water.
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Postcard #6 - Tijuana Jukebox
Van Sounds Postcards are short audio blurbs from somewhere else.
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American Music
American Music is 13 songs from North and South America. Free download at vansounds.bandcamp.com
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Being There
vansounds.bandcamp.com/merch - Helen Fillmore talks about Standing Rock, Jason Moore talks about Nepal and Brad Bynum talks about wrapping his shirtless body in a filthy coth from a historic bar's rafters. For pictures, links and music, visit Vansounds.org
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Postcard #5 - Juneau, AK
Mendenhall Glacier, a shipwrecked stranger, fever in a bar.
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That's Politics
People with Bodies tour the northwest. We catch a baseball game with 90's G-funk rapper Squeek Nutty Bug, talk Marijuana legalization with offical spokesperson for "Protecting Nevada's Children," and have a chat with Presidential Candidate Joe Exotic.
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before now
I spoke with Tijuana-based artist Dani Shivers and Simpsonwave creator Lucien Hughes about nostalgia in art.
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Postcard #4 - Poughkeepsie, NY
Postcard #4 - Poughkeepsie, NY Van Sounds #4 in the Van Sounds Postcard series. This time, a quick check in from Poughkeepsie, NY. We set out on Black Creek in a small Craigslist rowboat but we didn't have any oars. So we made some. Patrick's out of a broken piece of particle board screwed to a...
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Brazil on Fire
A meandering album review of Elza Soares' Mulher do Fim do Mundo. An interview with Guilherme Kastrup and Saundra Coutinho.
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Going For It
I left my day job to focus on Van Sounds full time. In this episode, I chat with Joe Lally (Fugazi), Luciano Valério, and Saundra Coutinho (Mercenarias) about going for it.
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Postcard #3 - Austin, Nevada
Van Sounds contributor Kent Irwin and I stopped in Austin, Nevada for a night on the way to Ely.
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There, There // Hear, Hear
I spent new years in Buenos Aires. 32 years after the Military Dictatorship fell.
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Postcard #2 - Punk house, Rhode Island
A quick check in from Van Sounds - This time from Rhode Island.
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The Loneliest Rap in America
Van Sounds contributor Kent Irwin (howlsroad.com) and I drive to Ely, NV to speak with rappers Asocka and Young Creedo.
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Postcard #1 - Montevideo
The first in a series of audio postcards from Van Sounds
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Wish you were here
Wish You Were Here Van Sounds (Wish I was there) In this episode: the postcard. A digital version anyway. Street Music Map - @streetmusicmap Whiskey Texas (Zine) - @Whiskeyoninstagram Idaho Explored - @Idahoexplored MUSIC Church by Porteur Wavey by Yclept Insan Memo-3 by Laid (not online) Filardo…
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The Dirtbag Diaries - Episode Swap
Really stoked to announce that this week's episode is a swap with The Dirtbag Diaries. They'll be playing a condensed version of the Dice Series, and this is a Diaries episode (Crash & Burn) that seemed to fit wildly well with Van Sounds. As you heard in Dice #5, I too drive a mid-90s Toyota…
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Dice #6 (End of the Line)
This is the final episode of a 6 part series in which a friend and I roll dice and drive in a direction based on the dice roll.
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Dice #5 (Nothing on the Radio)
Dice 5 (Nothing on the Radio) Van Sounds PORTEUR !! A Paper Cup Band (Andrew Jansen//LOUD SUN) Arthur Howls - New cassette "Anarcho Jazz" coming soon. Jona Barish MIKE BRANCH - Rants from the Hill (Essays and sometimes Audio) Subscribe to Van Sounds on iTunes, yo, Pre-300,000 truck back in…
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Dice #4 (The edge)
In the 4th part of the Dice series, we reach the edge.
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Music journalism, travel writing and experimental radio.
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