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Jan 2024
17m 37s

Episode 211: Cutting and Ned

NATE DIMEO
About this episode

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Music

  • Je ne pas si c’est tout le monde - Theme Comedie from Vincent Delerm’s score to the film of the same, long name.

  • Forbin’s Hi Fi from Michel Colombier’s score to Colossus: The Forbin Project

  • Boo’s Lullaby by Maria Chiara Agriro and Jamie Leeming

  • Helle (Ballade) from the great Phillipe Sarde score to that picture.

  • L’Espagne pour memoire from Michel Portal’s score to Un et a la garoupe

  • The Rain Never Stops on Venus by Michael Wollney

  • Je t’ai meme pas dit by Vincent Delerm.

  • From a Dream by Oregon

  • A version of Narcisus for Clarinet and Electronics as played by Thea Musgrave.

Notes

  • Good sources if you want to know more are Peter Manseau’s book about spirit photography and the spiritualist age (Cutting intersects interestingly with that crea), The Apparitionists, as well as this article by Jerry Ryan about the history of aquariums in Boston.
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