the memory palace

The finale of the 2015 Summer Season.     Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * There's Branches , by Keith Kenniff * Then The Big Ocean , from Ben Sollee's score to Maidentrip .  * Then End of the World from Dan Romer's score to Beasts of the Southern Wild .  * There's The Sage , pulling once more from the dope-as-hell self-titled album from...

Episode 9 of the 2015 Summer Season.                     Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * There're too pieces from Per Storby Jutbring's album, Dance of the Diaper Fairy . Snowbound, up top, and the title track at the end.    Notes * Hoo boy, have I read a ton of books about the space program, thanks to my stint on the writing staff of AB...

Episode 8 of the 2015 Summer Season               Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * First up (and returning at the end) is Sandra's Theme, from Heather McIntosh's fantastic score to Compliance , a very good, very disturbing movie.  * We hit Frank Glazer leading Charles Ives' Largo for Clarinet, Violin and Piano a couple of times, framing.....

Episode 7 of the 2015 Summer Season.                     Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * First up (and returning a bit later) is Mr. Reincarnation from Alexander Desplat's dope-as-hell score to the fairly dope movie, Birth.  * There's Lost Fur, Reprise from Carter Burwell's Where the Wild Things Are score.  * Then there's a Charles Ives...

Episode 6 of the 2015 Summer Season.               Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * First up, A Nice Day from a truly wonderful album, The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet Complete Studio Recordings. * Then there's Ohnono/Kiwembo , Andrew Bird's contribution to Tradi-Mods Vs. Rockers - Alternative Takes on Congotronics, Vol. 1 (which is a...

Episode 5 of the 2015 Summer Season.               Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * The main mountain theme is Mort D'Eurydice , by Pierre Favre as played by the European Chamber Ensemble. * There's a second string-y snippet of another by them called, Sito . * We learn about beavers to Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 10...

Episode 4 of the 2015 Summer Season.          Music   * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * Charlie on the ladder is scored with the Prologue to the fantastic score to the film Birth , by Alexandre Desplat * It ends with Opus 30 , by Dustin O'Hallaran.   * The upbeat, fair music is a piece called Love on Matthew Herbert's contribution to the Life in...

Episode 3 of the Summer Season.    Music   * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays the Blues , which you should own.  * The violin piece is Occam II for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros. * Next up is Mikuro's Blues from the mighty David S. Ware' mighty Go See the Worl...

Music   * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score. * Then, we have the most obvious crickets/summer night song ever: the fantastic, perpetually delightful Green Arrow from Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, which has soundtracked many crickety summer nights for me over the years.  * The cops roll in to a loop of the very beginning of the ep...

The music:   *Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's great, ridiculous Modesty Blaise score. *The recurring piano theme is Les Marionettes by Zbigniew Preisner from his score to La Double Vie de Veronique (And, have you seen The Double Life of Veronique? Man, that's good) *Eugenia's dreamy little theme is Just Saying by Jamie XX off of In Colour *That organ track is called Or...

Something to listen to while you wait for the new season of The Memory Palace, launching June 21st with weekly episodes through the whole summer.     Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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While you wait until June 21st for the Season of the Memory Palace, here's a new version of an old favorite. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

While you wait until June 21st for the Season of the Memory Palace, here's a new version of an old favorite. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.  Thank you kindly.   The music in this one: "An Ending, A Beginning" by Dustin O'Halloran. "I am Piano" by Peter Broderick. Two songs from the soundtrack to "With a Song in my Heart": American Medley, and That Old Feeling. The one at the end is "I'll Never be the Same." My version's on a collection called "Can't get out of this...

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.   Thank you kindly.     The music pulled from "Blue Sands" by the Chico Hamilton Trio.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.      Thank you kindly.   Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.      Thank you kindly.   Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.      Thank you kindly.   Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.      Thank you kindly.   Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.      Thank you kindly.   Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.   Thank you kindly.   There are two pieces of music in this: one is a tweaked loop from "To Here Knows When" by MBV. The other is "Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Bucla Music Box 100, HP Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitars, and Computer - Part One" by Keith Fullerton Whitman.    Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.or...

If you enjoy this story, please tell a friend about The Memory Palace.      Thank you kindly.   Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices