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.