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November 4

Week 756: “You Don’t Know This, But I’m Sorry” by Juan Pablo Garcia

Maybe I was joking around and I said something that hurt you more than you…

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October 21

Week 754: “Pointillism” by Laurent Dury

Hiroyuki Doi was a successful chef in Japan until his mid-thirties, when his younger brother…

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June 3

Week 734: “Ascension” by Martin Rott

Let’s take a trip this week. A forty-thousand-and-a-bit kilometre trip along the famous but invisible…

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May 27

Week 733: “Open Spaces” by Johnny Greenwood

If you’re into ultra-dark movies exploring humankind’s penchant for greed, hatred, and power via the…

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March 18

Week 723: “A Mirror” by Yair Elazar Glotman

One of my kids’ favourite things to do is to watch videos of themselves as…

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January 22

Week 715: “Don’t Worry” by Zoë Keating

I’m not a big fan of worrying. I do enjoy planning. And daydreaming. Talking and…

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December 18

Week 710: “Papillon” by Johannes Motschmann

If I had to pick a favourite species of butterfly (and I can’t imagine a…

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December 4

Week 708: “Spark” by Niklas Paschburg

The Baltic is a pretty interesting sea. It’s young (for a sea) having only formed…

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September 11

Week 696: “Loom” by Olafur Arnalds and Bonobo

After a few days travelling and camping in the highlands of Iceland, Bonobo and Ólafur…

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July 24

Week 689: “Crawl Spaces” by Jesse Brown and Andy Salvanos

We had a crawl space in our basement. It was up behind the TV, hidden…

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July 17

Week 688: “The Water Rises” by Kronos Quartet and Laurie Anderson

One of the great joys of summer is watching a storm approach, then rage, then…

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February 27

Week 668: “Waves” by Carolina Eyck and Eversines

When I saw online that Carolina Eyck was a “German-Sorb composer” I thought, “that’s an…

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February 20

Week 667: “Tides of Washington Bridge” by Clogs

On the list of ridiculous things humans have come up with, shoes made of wood…

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December 12

Week 657: “Christmas Time is Here” by Vince Guaraldi (Christopher John Cover)

I grew up in a household that used a fake Christmas tree. The reasons were…

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October 17

Week 649: “Delusional Affection” by Ahren Merz

Salvador Dali was a complicated person. I mean, I know that’s not a groundbreaking statement.…

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June 27

Week 633: “Driven” by Felix Rösch

Have you ever had a small child try to scare you, but you knew it…

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May 23

Week 628: “B Major” by Trio Ramberget

I’ve never been one for teams of superheroes. Or superheroes at all, really. I know…

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February 21

Week 615: “A Robin Egg” by Rob Burger

The blue colouring of Robin eggs, while beautiful, is a bit puzzling. Many bird species…

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November 22

Week 602: “Roadtrip” by Eugene Goh

Ever since we got together, my wife and I have loved nothing more than taking…

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September 13

Week 592: “Fårö” by Martyn Heyne

On the Swedish island of Fårö (not to be confused with the Danish-owned Faroe Islands…

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