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Van Sounds

Fil Corbittfilcorbitt.com
Music journalism, travel writing and experimental radio.
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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 the apps, but you can get direct links on my website!)

Nov 25, 2020

Dead Air

Silence part 3. No transmission. Bellwether, KUNR, Nothing on the air.

Nov 08, 201921 min

Postcard - Tongue, Scotland

Subscribe Merch “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...

Oct 11, 20198 min

Lucien • Part 4

Subscribe Spotify Merch Soundtrack Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Lucien (Soundtrack) by Van Sounds...

Aug 13, 201941 min

Lucien • Part 3

Subscribe Merch Part 3 of a 4 part series. Part 1 Part 2 Part 4

Aug 02, 201928 min

Lucien • Part 2

Subscribe Merch Part 2 of a 4 part series. Part 1 Part 3 Part 4

Jul 12, 201929 min

Lucien • Part 1

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Jul 01, 201937 min

Postcard - Tokyo 東京

Subscribe Merch A postcard from Japan by Rose McMackin. Find her at https://www.disasterologie.com

Jun 07, 20193 min

Current Joys

Subscribe Merch Current Joys, past woes. Music: Roots Connective, Vann Frsh and Tutzi by Yclept Insan Something's Burgeoning Inside the Dead Deer by Magnétophonique An unnamed song by me A Different Age, Fear and Become the Warm Jets by Current Joys...

May 01, 201936 min

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 and photos at www.vansounds.org

Mar 15, 201948 min

It Will Never Be Quiet Again

Subscribe Merch A story from Kent Irwin of Howlsroad.com, and declaring independence from internal monologue. Music: Roots Connective - Yclept Insan Hamsa - Sandman Project Tail Chaser - Gitkin Revolutionary war songs...

Nov 24, 201820 min

Postcard - Florence, Italy

Subscribe Buy Merch 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...

Oct 16, 20183 min

A Hobo, A Tramp, A Bum

Shirt Subscribe You are what you do but sometimes that line moves, then blurs. “I think about how far away from here I’ll be tomorrow. But tomorrow is only a horizon. It’s the line wavering under my feet — just a trick I’ve played on my eyes to convince me there’s a destination in sight. This must be time travel.” - Em Jiang References: https://archive.org/details/NightRide-V30-Trainhopping http://www.billdaniel.net/who-is-bozo-texino/ Music: Roots Connective - Yclept Insan Motion by Gabrielle H...

Sep 23, 201818 min

A Catalogue of Nights

Subscribe Buy Merch Winter Solstice in São Paulo "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 stories." - Vanessa Lowe, Nocturne Listen to Nocturne Here Darknet Diaries...

Aug 15, 201826 min

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 ERN, NEVADA? The TRUE story of TOTAL LIARS and the history they invented for themselves. Right?

Jul 17, 201820 min

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.

Jun 19, 2018

The Silent Piece

Merchandise Subscribe The first in a series about Silence. Silence by John Biguenet The Music of John Cage by James Pritchett Music: Roots Connective by Yclept insan Easy Come Easy Go by ntvrme.ぶ Brought to you by a cluttered table... by fantompower. Gone Fishing by Yclept Insan Beethoven’s 3rd Fundir Todo A new album from Las Cosas Que Pasan. Click image to listen. Permalink...

Apr 25, 2018

Postcard #11 - Bus 104

A guest postcard from Julian Guy, navigating the bus system of Montevideo Uruguay.

Mar 13, 20183 min

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.

Feb 08, 201829 min

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

Dec 27, 20172 min

Picon

The Picon Punch in the Great Basin. Exploring shades of brown.

Dec 07, 201724 min

Snake in the Grass

Touring the DIY Punk circuit of Southern Brazil. The skyscrapers of São Paulo are like blades of grass. They stretch upright in every direction, farther than you can see. It’s winter and it’s night time. A line of motorcycles slithers through the sparse traffic on a backstreet of Pinhieros and the moon is behind the clouds. I’m on a street corner at the base of a skyscraper on the top of a hill at a bend in the road. A single motorcycle zigzags up the hill, leans into the turn and disappears int...

Nov 07, 2017

Postcard #9 - Pacifica, CA

Van Sounds contributor Emily Jiang finds a house on a cliff between the highway and the ocean. Photos by Emily Jiang and Abby Mitchell....

Sep 20, 2017

Repeater

Subscribe on iTunes Purchase Merch Follow on Twitter Like on Facebook I have a 100 theme songs in my head. They bounce around, bounce off each other, but mainly, they repeat. They play, then they play again. Then they play again. Then the show happens until the theme comes and plays again. And then the show and then the theme and then the theme. The television is either mocking or celebrating my repetitive movements, and then in turn I do the same to it. Maybe think about the engine of a freight...

Aug 31, 2017

Are you there?

iTunes Merch Twitter Facebook Music: Roots connective by Yclept Insan The One by Corya Yo Blue Sky an’ calm by X.Y.R. Flow Study by Hammer Screwdriver Dezembro by JEZMND Nuestra Noche by Mi Amigo Invencible...

Aug 02, 201718 min

Postcard #8 - Globe, Az

subscribe on itunes Subscribe on stitcher Purchase Merch Like on Facebook Pay phone call recorder for life. Marathon Target a few days before Globe. Music: Two Minute man by BROCKBEATS Flagstaff Crop Circles / 9 11 Mothman found alive in Arizona desert by The F*cked Up Beat...

Jul 04, 2017

Rule of Thumb

How to hitchhike / a guide to hitchhiking in 2017. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Stitcher Purchase Merch Like on Facebook A pretty good spot. Mainly, there's room to pull over and some cool trees to look at. Hot Creek, CA. Remember the Hiking in Hitchhiking. Riding with Strangers - Elijah Wald Hitchwiki Trustroots - Kasper (of Hitchwiki)'s new travel project MUSIC Yclept Insan BluOrangee Silk - Enter.Name The great David Dondero Mystery Mixtape Click here to purchase...

Jun 08, 201732 min

Postcard #7 - Cuzco

A quick check in from somewhere else. A lightening storm in the scared valley, and an hour of power choirs in Cuzco, Peru. from the bell tower...

Apr 15, 20173 min
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