Pedro Páramo

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Pedro Páramo Playlist

20 tracks

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Oct 18, 2026

A passage from sun-bleached rural Jalisco into Comala’s haunted silences, this playlist pairs Mexican folk colors and spare, uncanny instrumentals with songs of longing, memory, and a community speaking from beyond the grave. Its shifts between dusty warmth, restless voices, and elegiac stillness echo Juan Preciado’s search for his father and the fragments of lives bound to Pedro Páramo.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Danzón no. 2

Arturo Márquez · Danzón

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2

Sensemayá

Silvestre Revueltas · The Music of Silvestre Revueltas

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3

Pavana para una Infanta Difunta

Maurice Ravel · Música para una Noche de Ánimas (En Teatro Pérez Galdós)

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4

Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Credo

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5

Águas De Março

Elis Regina · Elis & Tom

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6

La Llorona

Chavela Vargas · Mi Mundo Raro

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7

Cumbia Sobre El Río

Celso Piña · 10 Exitos A Bailar Cumbia

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8

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35: III. Marche funèbre

Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Preludes; Sonata No.2

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9

Gnossienne No. 3

Erik Satie · introspection

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10

The Sinking of the Titanic

Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

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11

La Llorona

Lila Downs · La Sandunga

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12

Cucurrucucu Paloma

Caetano Veloso · Fly Away

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13

Paloma Negra

Chavela Vargas · Chavela Vargas

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14

El Rey

José Alfredo Jimenez · El Cantinero

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15

La Martiniana

Lila Downs · Border

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16

Canción Mixteca

Antonio Aguilar · Antonio Aguilar

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17

La Bruja

Tlen Huicani · Veracruz Son y Huapango

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18

Un Mundo Raro

Chavela Vargas · Mi Mundo Raro

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19

La Cárcel De Cananea

Los Alegres De Teran · Corridos Famosos

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20

El Andariego

Alvaro Carrillo · La Coleccion Del Siglo

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