More songs to calm the nerves

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🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In our second installment of blood-slowing songs we take a deep breath and let it out with the music of Max Richter, Hania Rani, Fleet Foxes, Yasmin Williams and more.

Featured artists and songs:
1. Joan Shelley: "Easy Now," from Over and Even
2. Fleet Foxes: "Helplessness Blues," from Helplessness Blues
3. Theo Alexander: "re; Waiting," from Animadversions
4. Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher: "There Will Be Hope," from Inner Symphonies
5. Nicholas Britell: "Eden (Harlem)," from If Beale Street Could Talk
6. Max Richter: "Dream 3 (in the midst of my life)," from From Sleep
7. Stars of the Lid: "Even If You're Never Awake," from And Their Refinement of the Decline
8. Iron & Wine: "Passing Afternoon," from Our Endless Numbered Days
9. Yasmin Williams: "Juvenescence," from Urban Driftwood
10. Gidon Kremer & Keith Jarrett: "Fratres (for violin and piano)," from Arvo Párt: Tabula Rasa

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0:21.9	npr.org. What is calm? Over the next two hours, we will be, we'll be taking a two-hour
0:31.3	deep dive into what exactly we mean when we say calm.
0:35.0	Oh, my God. Stephen, how are you doing?
0:38.4	Are you, you said leading up to this taping that you were going to, you needed this
0:43.0	as therapy.
0:45.1	Robin, my brain is kind of a toilet fire at the moment.
0:51.5	Have you ever had, have you ever, has your toilet ever caught fire?
0:54.9	Have you ever just had a full toilet that somehow burst into flames?
1:00.9	I, no, honestly, didn't even know that was possible.
1:03.7	Oh, Robin.
1:04.2	One more thing to worry about.
1:05.3	Oh, I keep a fire extinguisher, like right next to my plunger.
1:09.5	My brother, when he was a kid, when we were kids, and I'm not making this up, he was afraid,
1:14.8	because this was kind of a thing in the 70s, spontaneous human combustion.
1:18.6	Oh, absolutely.
1:19.5	And he was so afraid of bursting into flames.
1:22.0	He couldn't, he was keeping him up at night and he went downstairs to my parents and said
1:26.3	that he was afraid he was going to burst into flames.
1:28.3	And so my dad dug out a fire extinguisher, handed it to him and said, go back to bed.
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