The Life of an Observed Orangutan

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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.