XHM #776 - "Taking arms against a sea of troubles" (2026 February 16)

It's Week 4 of our annual Oscars profile and first time nominee Max Richter has had a strong presence in modern classical music. His score to Hamnet ties into a lot of themes surround Family Day, Mardi Gras, Carnaval & the incoming Year of the Fire Horse. 01. Crosstown Traffic: Love Your Family (Party People 12", 1979) DC 02. Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt: Impulse Array (FRKWYS Volume 18: Extended Field, 2025) RVNG Intl 03. Tucker Zimmerman: Running, Running from Moment to Moment (Ten Songs, 1969) Regal Zonophone 04. Dialogue: I Go to Funerals (Harold and Maude OST, 1971) Island 05. Ruth Gordon & Bud Cort: If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out [vocal version] (Harold and Maude OST, 1971) Island 06. Quincy Jones: Manha de Carnaval/Morning of the Carnival (Big Band Bossa Nova, 1962) Mercury 07. Professor Longhair: Go to the Mardi Gras (1959) Ron 08. Boco: Running the Mardi Gras (2016) Big Crown 09. Laura Cannell: Summon the Ghost Horses (The Mediæval Drone Society, 2026) Brawl 10. Garbage: Chinese Fire Horse (Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, 2025) Stun Volume/Infectious Music 11. Pierre Kwenders: It's Pony [w.Pony] (Tears on the Dancefloor EP, 2025) Moonshine 12. Pony: Clearly Cursed (Clearly Cursed, 2026) Take This to Heart 13. The Sadies: The Horseshoe (Tales of the Ratfink OST, 2006) Yep Roc/Outside 14. Rick Maddocks: Blue Horses (Blue Horse Opera, 2025) self-released 15. Quinie: Auld Horse (Forefowk, Mind Me, 2025) Upset! the Rhythm 16. Janky Bungag: Lonesome Fiddle Waltz (Demograss Tapes, 2025) self-released 17. Rich Hope & His Evil Doers: Babylon Woman (I See Trouble 7", 2010) Sandbag 18. Ora Cogan: Honey (Hard Hearted Woman, 2026) Sacred Bones 19. The Olympians: Hollywood Cold (In Search of a Revival, 2026) Daptone 20. Sault: God, Protect Me from My Enemies (Chapter 1, 2026) Forever Living Originals 21. Kathleen Edwards: When the Truth Comes Out (Billionaire, 2025) Dualtone 22. Robert Ziegler & London Symphony Orchestra: Running with Horses (Laurie Christman: Running with Horses, 2025) Navona 23. Ida Elina: Maailman Synty/The World Begins (2026) Bafe Factory 24. Jane Weaver Septiéme Sœur: Hud a llefrith (The Fallen by Watchbird, 2026) Fire 25. Ennio Morricone: To Be or Not to Be (Hamlet OST, 1990) Virgin 26. Mike Dubue: Hamlet 1L (Smash Cut OST, 2009) self-released 27. William Shatner: Hamlet (The Transformed Man, 1968) Decca 28. Max Richter: Hearing Voices 1 [Movement Study edit 1] (Spaceman OST, 2024) Decca 29. Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Nick Barr, Natalia Bonner, Max Ruisi & Kozdoj: Chorale (Sleep Circle, 2025) Deutsche Grammophon 30. Max Richter: I Was the More Deceived (Hamnet OST, 2025) Decca 31. Max Richter: Of Agnes (Hamnet OST, 2025) Decca 32. Max Richter: The Great Globe Itself (Hamnet OST, 2025) Decca 33. Max Richter: Love Affair [After JE, edit] (In a Landscape, 2024) Decca 34. Jess Gillam: On the Nature of Daylight (Time, 2020) Decca 35. Freddie Hubbard: Carnival/Manha de Carnaval (The Body & The Soul, 1963) Impulse! 36. Gavin Walker Quartet: Beat (Beat OST, 1987) Grimshaw/Filbrandt radiofreegak@gmail.com www.citr.ca/exploding-head-movies https://mas.to/@100aire