YOU HAVE TUNED INTO RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY.

 

Somewhere between Tangier and a truck stop outside Amarillo, between a numbers station in the Balkans and a rainstorm hammering corrugated roofs in Manila, we intercepted the signal and never shut the transmitter off again.

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The station may not be real, but the ghosts are.

 

​— off-air recordings plucked from shortwave, FM, AM, pirate bands, military spillover, evangelical overload, taxi chatter, fishing fleets, border static, and anonymous operators muttering into the ionosphere

 

— field recordings captured in deserts, train compartments, mountain shrines, flooded streets, jungle villages, abandoned terminals, and cheap hotel rooms with a radio permanently tuned between stations

 

— fragments of ethnographic film and forgotten tapes buried in archive basements, never intended to be heard again 

 

— obscure records and cassettes of exotic provenance, dusted off and sent back into the night on invisible waves

 

The airwaves are haunted. We merely provide hospitality.

 

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In the material plane we operate as a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Our mission is simple: to explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

 

Every donation buys more tape hiss.

Every listener strengthens the carrier wave.

Every sleepless bastard with headphones on at 4 A.M. keeps the signal alive.

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RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY is a 501(c)3 nonprofit (EIN available upon request). All contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

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