The Odyssey
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The Odyssey

by Όμηρος

An Odyssey–themed listening arc that mirrors departure, peril, temptation, and hard-won homecoming, using a balanced mix of cinematic instrumentals and lyric-driven tracks. The selections aim to echo the poem’s sea-voyage scale, moral tests, and longing for Ithaca without relying on any one mood for the whole journey.

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Sep 16, 2026
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1
The Dark Knight Rises (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition]

A Storm Is Coming

Hans Zimmer · The Dark Knight Rises (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition]

2
Game Of Thrones: Season 8 (Music from the HBO Series)

The Rains of Castamere

Ramin Djawadi · Game Of Thrones: Season 8 (Music from the HBO Series)

3
The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)

On the Nature of Daylight - Orchestral Version

Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)

4
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

The Lark Ascending

Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

5
Hopes And Fears

Somewhere Only We Know

Keane · Hopes And Fears

6
Hozier

Take Me To Church

Hozier · Hozier

7
Avicii Forever

The Nights

Avicii · Avicii Forever

8
All the Little Lights

Let Her Go

Passenger · All the Little Lights

9
American IV: The Man Comes Around

The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around

10
I'm Your Man

Everybody Knows

Leonard Cohen · I'm Your Man

11
I Will Follow You into the Dark

I Will Follow You into the Dark

Death Cab for Cutie · I Will Follow You into the Dark

12
Colour The Small One

Breathe Me

Sia · Colour The Small One

13
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

I See Fire

Ed Sheeran · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

14
Insides

Light Through The Veins

Jon Hopkins · Insides

15
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525; Symphony No. 32 (Overture), K. 318; Serenade K. 320 "Posthorn Serenade"

Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525: I. Allegro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525; Symphony No. 32 (Overture), K. 318; Serenade K. 320 "Posthorn Serenade"

16
Arvo Pärt: Portrait

Spiegel im spiegel

Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait

17
Erik Satie & Friends

Gymnopédie No. 1

Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends

18
Megalithic Symphony

Sail

AWOLNATION · Megalithic Symphony

19
Up from Below

Home

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros · Up from Below

20
Too Low For Zero

I'm Still Standing

Elton John · Too Low For Zero

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