This playlist moves between the controlled grandeur of Tiran’s magical institutions and the unease beneath their apparent order. Its instrumental pieces balance measured, intricate textures with gradual surges of tension, while the final songs speak to exclusion, complicity, and the cost of confronting a powerful system.
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20 songsKids Will Be Skeletons
Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People
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The Mighty Rio Grande
This Will Destroy You · S/T
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On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315 "Summer": III. Presto
Antonio Vivaldi · Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
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String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto
Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 & 14
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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: II. Lento e Largo - Tranquillissimo
Henryk Górecki · Górecki: Symphony No. 3
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The Chairman Dances
John Adams · Dance Mix
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Phaedra - Remastered 2018
Tangerine Dream · Phaedra (Deluxe Version)
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Oxygène, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre · Oxygène
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Eutow
Autechre · Tri Repetae
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Endless Falls
Loscil · Endless Falls
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The Drop
The Haxan Cloak · Excavation
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Photosynthesis
Carbon Based Lifeforms · World of Sleepers
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The Light
The Album Leaf · Into the Blue Again
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The World Is Our ___
This Will Destroy You · Young Mountain
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Remembrance
Balmorhea · All Is Wild, All Is Silent
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Danse macabre, Op. 40
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 / Dance Macabre / Bacchanale / 3 Rhapsodies
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
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labour
Paris Paloma · Cacophony
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