Book Playlist

Muckle Flugga Playlist

by Michael Pedersen

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 19, 2026

A tide-shaped journey for Pedersen’s remote island: spacious instrumentals evoke the exposed northern landscape, its weather and inherited rhythms, while the songs turn toward arrival, kinship, longing and the pull of elsewhere. The mix moves between quiet reflection and bracing communal energy, echoing a young dreamer’s changing horizons without assuming more about the story than its description reveals.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Nimrod

Edward Elgar · Crown Imperial: Coronation Music

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2

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.

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3

Untitled #3 - Samskeyti

Sigur Rós · ( )

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4

Weather Storm

Massive Attack · Protection

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5

Bless This Morning Year

Helios · Eingya

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6

Eastern Glow

The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place

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7

The How of it Sped

Bing & Ruth · No Home of the Mind

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8

Water from the Same Source

Christian Erik Frederickson · Systems / Layers

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9

Haar

Erland Cooper · Sule Skerry

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10

Laura Palmer's Theme

Angelo Badalamenti · Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch: Laura Palmer's Theme from Twin Peaks

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11

Friend of the Night

Mogwai · Mr. Beast

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12

Albatross

Fleetwood Mac · English Rose

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13

Marooned

Pink Floyd · The Division Bell

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14

The Skye Boat Song

The Corries · Scottish Love Songs

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15

The Whole of the Moon

The Waterboys · The Whole of the Moon: The Music of Mike Scott & The Waterboys

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16

Northern Sky

Nick Drake · Bryter Layter

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17

The King of Rome

The Unthanks · The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band (Diversions, Vol. 2)

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18

The Modern Leper

Frightened Rabbit · The Midnight Organ Fight

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19

The Trapeze Swinger

Iron & Wine · Around the Well

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20

The Mariner's Revenge Song

The Decemberists · Picaresque

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