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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

"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

"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

"[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's often bizarre scenarios for the mind are decidedly offbeat radio fare...part surreal satire, part bizarre meditation, part fever dream."

Los Angeles Daily News

"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

"I came upon Joe Frank's work by accident a number of years ago while driving to my home in the Napa Valley late at night. I couldn't believe the originality and sheer brilliance of what I was hearing. From that moment on I became a dedicated Joe Frank fan. Joe Frank's shows raise the most interesting and enduring questions in new and original ways and are consistently thought-provoking and very funny."

Francis Ford Coppola, 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

"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

"In an arena in which formats are sacrosanct, Joe Frank has charted new territory with his literate, frequently bizarre, wildly funny essays and parodies... He can be funny, poignant, serious and off the wall - sometimes within the framework of the same piece. Unique is one word to describe it. Brilliant is another."

Los Angeles Times

"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