A continuous, mostly electronic instrumental journey evokes the island’s humid spaciousness, the narrator’s wary solitude, and the visitors’ unnerving repetition. Its gradual movement from exploratory textures to more suspended and shadowed sounds follows his attraction to Faustine and the unsettling possibility that what he sees is not ordinary life.
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20 songsOxygène, Pt. 2
Jean-Michel Jarre · Oxygène
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The First Wave - Birth Of Venus
Suzanne Ciani · Seven Waves
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Blink
Hiroshi Yoshimura · Music for Nine Post Cards
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Bayreuth Return
Klaus Schulze · Timewind (Remastered 2017)
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Hollywood
Cluster · Zuckerzeit
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Bye Bye Butterfly
Pauline Oliveros · New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media: Women In Electronic Music - 1977
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Sunrain
Ashra · New Age Of Earth
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Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
Edgar Froese · Losing Our Virginity (The First 4 Years '73 - '76)
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Endless Summer
Fennesz · Endless Summer
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Rae
Autechre · LP5
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Aqua
Edgar Froese · Aqua
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Clouds
Gigi Masin · Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre, Vol. 2
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La petite fille de la mer - Remastered
Vangelis · La petite fille de la mer
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Albedo 0.39
Vangelis · Albedo 0.39
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Talisman
Air · Moon Safari
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Highschool Lover
Air · The Virgin Suicides (Original Motion Picture Score)
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Dawn Chorus
Boards of Canada · Geogaddi
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Olson
Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children
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Caravansary
Kitaro · The Definitive Collection
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