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A Year in a Puddle

Season 1, Ep. 7
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A failed attempt to ride the New Nature Writing gravy train with A Year In A Puddle.


TRIGGER WARNING: mention is made of 'Driver Tizer', 'hedge-porn' and tree fetishism.


Written, performed, recorded & produced by Neil Fitzgerald. For more info about him, and to support his projects, go to: neil-fitzgerald.com


Buy me a coffee you tight bastards: https://ko-fi.com/neilfitzgerald


Credits & Acknowledgements: All sound FX sourced on Freesound.org and are used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. For links to individual files, see link. The following sound FX are used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. All sound FX sourced on freesound.org. For links to individual files, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1Psou6…/edit?usp=sharing


Other music samples used under Fair Usage rights include:


Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Pt. 1

Real Estate - Pool Swimmers

Das Rheingold - Prelude - Solti/VPO


End song: No Demons Here - Every Second Darker is used with kind permission of the artist.



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