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Feb 2025
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Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the...

NATE DIMEO
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This episode originally aired in February of 2021. 


Music

  • Unsayable by Brambles.
  • Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina
  • A Nearer Sun by the Westerlies
  • Duet, a Steve Reich composition, performed by Daniel Hope.
  • Reading a Wave by Arp
  • April by Kanazu Tomoyuki
  • Latent Sonata by Brian McBride

Notes

 


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