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This playlist moves between the shadowed streets of 1889 London and the unstable, vividly imagined territory of the Stream. Sparse piano, atmospheric electronics and cinematic tension reflect Ashlyn’s double life, while the vocal selections evoke dreams, ravens and the uncanny pull of the past.
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20 songs
1
Is That What Everybody Wants
Cliff Martinez · Solaris (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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2
Flight from the City
Jóhann Jóhannsson · Orphée
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3
Esja
Hania Rani · Esja
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4
The Light
The Album Leaf · Into the Blue Again
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5
Rain Tree Sketch II
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Complete Works for Piano
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6
The Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22 No. 2
Jean Sibelius · Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse triste; Tapiola; The Swan of Tuonela
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The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.
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The Raven
The Alan Parsons Project · Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (Original 1976 Version)
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9
Waking The Witch
Kate Bush · Hounds Of Love
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10
Promenade
Modest Mussorgsky · Promenade
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Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 10, October. Autumn Song
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Op. 74 "Pathétique" & The Seasons, Op. 37a
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12
Everything You Do Is A Balloon
Boards of Canada · Hi Scores
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13
Unspoken
Four Tet · Rounds (Special Anniversary Edition)
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14
Midnight Black Earth
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Black Earth
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15
Excavation (Part 1)
The Haxan Cloak · Excavation
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16
Vers la flamme, Op. 72
Alexander Scriabin · Scriabin: Sonatas, Études, Poèmes, Feuillet d'album; Vers la flamme
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17
Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. Largo e maestoso - Allegro non troppo "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship"
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
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18
Valse sentimentale, Op. 51, No. 6
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Valse sentimentale, Op. 51, No. 6
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Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2
Stars Of The Lid · The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
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20
A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden (A)
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