Somewhere Out There

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Reviews of Joe’s Work

"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

"A strange, different, wondrously offbeat, frequently hilarious, altogether brilliant piece of work..There's never been anything quite like it...Joe Frank is an audio Fellini."

The Los Angeles Times

"[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

"Radio's Prince of Darkness Rules the Freeways. [Frank is] alternately dark, bizarre and very funny - but always hard to turn off."

The Wall Street Journal

"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

"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] travels in the emotional landscape of Bergman and Fellini; there's a tension and sense of mystery halfway between Kafka and Chandler... and a satiric edge worthy of Firesign Theatre and Woody Allen... No one else in radio is doing what Frank does."

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

"Although commonly categorized as radio drama, Frank's work bears very little resemblance to the stagy artifice of plays performed over air. Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon

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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

Policeman’s Ball, The (Remix)

Prayer (60 min)

Red Sea

Rent-A-Family (Remix)

Reprise (Remix)

River, The

Road To Calvary, The

Sacred, The