the memory palace

Episode 221: Ken Allen

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Music

  • Pure (Ride the World) by (the extraordinary) Brendan Eder Ensemble
  • Violette... from Philippe Sarde's score to Violette et Francois
  • Merry-go-Round and People on Sunday by Domenique Dumont
  • Dane by Nils Frahm
  • Two different versions of Debussy's Passepied, the piano one is performed by Seong-Jin Cho, the synth one by Isao Tomita
  • Love from Matthew Herbert
  • Memorial Park from Bernard Herrmann's score to Obsession.
  • Phantom Signals by Tvarvargen

    • Notes

    • There's plenty written about Ken Allen, but I particularly appreciated Jason Hribal's book Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.
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