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May 2021
16m 34s

Episode 181: The Adventures of Pearl

NATE DIMEO
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Music:

  • Suite from A Hatful of Rain from the GOAT, Bernard Herrmann

  • Sexfaldur from amiina

  • Piano 1 from Emily Sprague

  • Earring from Julia Wolfe and Lisa Moore

  • The Squirrel, from Herrmann’s score to The Three Worlds of Gulliver

  • All in Circles by Shida Shinabi

  • Them by Nils Frahm

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