Somewhere Out There

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Reviews of Joe’s Work

"Mixing bizarre monologues, multi-sequenced dramatic vignettes and mock-solemn critiques, [Joe Frank's work] is both sophisticated and surreal. A sizable cult has been growing around Frank...a rare radio talent."

The Village Voice

"[Joe Frank] is one of the great, original radio performers. He's created a sound and style for himself - a complete aesthetic that's entirely his own. I first heard him when I was 19 and it changed everything for me. His work demonstrated the intensity and emotion that the medium is capable of; ingenious…fantastic."

Ira Glass, This American Life

"Joe Frank is a singular voice in radio. What he has done is hypnotic, psychotic, neurotic, sad, terrifying, and some of the funniest stuff I have ever heard anywhere. I can't think of another radio performer who has come close to achieving this kind of alchemy."

Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker

"Joe Frank is an invaluable warrior who stands in defense of our fears, our vanities and our forever-eroding sense of ourselves. He transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation. Sartre would have called it nausea; Frank makes it art."

Spin Magazine

"[Joe Frank is] the most imaginative, literate monologist in radio today... If a microphone could capture the nether recesses of the modern psyche, it would sound like Frank's absurd comical excursions: Radio Vertigo."

The Village Voice

"Frank [is] the apostle of radio noire... His free-form radio dramas... are sometimes moving, often funny, but always manage to confound the listeners' expectations. A maestro of verité, Frank exploits the power of radio..."

Rolling Stone

"The perfect Joe Frank experience is driving down an unfamiliar highway alone at night. You turn on your radio and are greeted by a lush, resonant voice that lulls you into a seemingly simple tale of love: a man at an airport saying goodbye to his wife over the phone, which abruptly turns into a vision of betrayal, alienation and death - often from obscure disease - all brought about by some profound personal failing, which is redeemed at the last moment by a nearly transcendent moment of joy."

Salon

"Frank has created a series of dead-pan radio monologues so sharp and intelligent that during the quiet bits you can almost hear God taking notes."

The UK Guardian

"You don't have to close your eyes to appreciate Joe Frank's dense audio universe cascading out of your radio. It helps, though, because there are so many layers - of sound, philosophy, of reality-coursing through his dramas... Come to think of it, after awhile, you won't want to close your eyes because in Frank's short stories for the radio, the tension and pathos are as enveloping as they are intriguing... "

The Washington Post

"Joe Frank is an original whose work has helped form some of the most eccentric, dark and interesting parts of public radio's personality. "

Terry Gross, Fresh Air

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Somewhere Out There

001 – The Entire Joe Frank Collection – Shows aired 1978 – 2002

004 – Somewhere Out There – 1995 – 1997

2-Pack: Joe Frank :: Selections Vols 1 and 2

3-Pack: Joe Frank :: Selections Vols 1, 2 and 3

Arena (Remix)

At The Dark End of the Bar (90 min)

Bible Salesman

Bible Stories

Black Light

Blues Singer

Call in the Night, A (Remix)

Death in the Family, A (Remix)

Enterprising Man, An

Escape From Paradise

Eye In The Sky

Fat Man Down (remix)

Five Part Dissonance (Remix)

God Only Knows

I’m Not Crazy (Remix)

Joe Frank :: Selections Volume 1

Joe Frank Live – Women Police Officers

Journal

Just Get Me Out of Here

Justine

Lost Soul

Loved One, The (Remix)

Mountain Rain

O.J. Chronicles, The

Obsessions

Other Side, The

Philosophy

Phone Therapy

Pledge Drive: Feb 12, 1996

Policeman’s Ball, The (Remix)

Prayer (60 min)

Red Sea

Rent-A-Family (Remix)

Reprise (Remix)

River, The

Road To Calvary, The