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A dark-fantasy soundscape built from tense orchestral writing, chamber shadows, and slowly tightening electronic atmospheres—meant to mirror Foxglove Parish’s decaying humanity and the creeping wrongness of eldritch magic. The playlist’s dynamic surges and restrained, long-form textures track Maevyth and Zevander’s push toward the Eating Woods, with two carefully chosen lyric moments to punctuate the story’s grief, longing, and curse.
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Track List
20 songs
1
Fratres
Arvo Pärt · Part: Tabula Rasa / Frates / Collage Sur Bach
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The Great Gig in the Sky
Pink Floyd · The Dark Side of the Moon
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Dies Irae
Giuseppe Verdi · Verdi Requiem
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4
The Curse
Josh Ritter · So Runs The World Away
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Atmosphères
György Ligeti · György Ligeti
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Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
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Requiem, K. 626: Dies irae
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Requiem Realisations
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Adagietto
Gustav Mahler · Classic II
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Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49: II. Andante con moto tranquillo
Felix Mendelssohn · Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Op. 49 & Op. 66
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La cathédrale engloutie
Claude Debussy · Enrico Belli
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Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel): X. The Great Gates of Kyiv
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
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Gymnopédie No. 3
Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends
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Requiem: Lacrimosa
Giuseppe Verdi · Verdi: Requiem
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Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622: II. Adagio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
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Tuba Mirum
Giuseppe Verdi · Verdi Requiem
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Requiem: Pie Jesu
Maurice Duruflé · Ave Verum. Sacred Choral Favourites
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Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition & Night on Bald Mountain
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Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73: II. Adagio un poco mosso
Ludwig van Beethoven · Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5
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The Rite of Spring, K15, Pt. 1: II. The Augurs of Spring
Igor Stravinsky · Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
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