The Librarian

Book Playlist

The Librarian Playlist

by Mikhail Elizarov

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 18, 2026

A shifting soundscape for Elizarov’s world of Soviet literary relics: solemn strings and uncanny electronics suggest the books’ ritual power, while darker, more propulsive passages evoke the readers’ escalating struggle to possess them. The vocal half turns toward obsession, inherited memory, and the dangerous authority of stories, without treating the novel’s specific mysteries as ordinary fantasy adventure.

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Track List

20 songs

1

The Door

Hildur Guðnadóttir · Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series)

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2

Love

Mica Levi · Under the Skin

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3

China Gates

John Adams · Inner Cities

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4

Bride of Chang

Cliff Martinez · Only God Forgives (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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5

Surge

Amon Tobin · ISAM

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6

Excavation (Part 1)

The Haxan Cloak · Excavation

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7

Night

John Carpenter · Lost Themes

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8

The Godfather Waltz

Nino Rota · The Godfather (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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9

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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10

Sabre Dance

Aram Khachaturian · Choreography

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11

Midnight Black Earth

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Black Earth

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12

The Host of Seraphim

Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time

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13

Cloudbusting

Kate Bush · Hounds Of Love

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14

The Future

Leonard Cohen · The Future

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15

The Words That Maketh Murder

PJ Harvey · Let England Shake

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16

Jubilee Street

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Push the Sky Away

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17

Burn the Witch

Radiohead · A Moon Shaped Pool

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18

The Queen And The Soldier

Suzanne Vega · Suzanne Vega

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19

How Soon Is Now?

The Smiths · The Wedding Singer (Music From The Motion Picture)

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20

This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Talking Heads · Speaking in Tongues

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