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David Ralicke

David Ralicke is a Los Angeles composer and multi-instrumentalist.

As a musician he’s toured and/or recorded with Beck, Dengue Fever, M83, Lucinda Williams, Broken Bells, The Shins, Jamie Lidell, John Cale, Feist, Devendra Banhart, Mary Lambert, Kelly Clarkson, Morrissey, Seu Jorge, Sia, Timothy B. Schmit, Hellogoodbye, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Natalie Merchant, Ziggy Marley, Flight Of The Concords, Ozomatli, Cat Power(I’m Not There soundtrack), Fitz and the Tantrums, The Bird and The Bee, Blues Traveler, Ben Harper, Macy Gray, and Van Dyke Parks.

Media: Superbad soundtrack, Hangover II soundtrack, Annie soundtrack, Resident Evil:Extinction soundtrack, Love soundtrack, Sons of Anarchy (TV soundtrack), The Voice; Australia,

Movies: Hang Over II (Dengue Fever).

Compositions featured in TV: Weeds (Dengue Fever), Friends with Benefits, Privileged, Taquita + Kaui, Malcolm in The Middle and ads for Nike and Blue Cross.

Video Games as performer: Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption ll

David was a member of Brazzaville and performed with Joe at these shows:

Joe Frank in Performance at Wadsworth Theater, Los Angeles, 1998
The Blue Room at the original Largo in Los Angeles
Old Man Los Angeles
Just an Ordinary Man (in Los Angeles)
Murdered by the Mind (in Chicago and Los Angeles)

Reviews of Joe’s Work

"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

"[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

"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

"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

"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

"The world of Joe Frank is a wildly entertaining surrealistic universe...hilarious, unsettling, zany, powerful, moving and perhaps the most unique, inventive and effective use of radio since Orson Welles convinced much of America there was a War of the Worlds."

The L.A. Weekly

"To me, he's what radio is really for... his show makes me think he's getting to some great truth... so completely captivating and just unlike anything else."

David Sedaris, writer

"[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

"Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon Magazine