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Winter Stillness pairs snow-muted piano, crystalline ambient textures and measured cinematic tension with Helena’s fight to survive a world shaped by necromancy and alchemy. The instrumental opening evokes buried memories and dangerous, unfamiliar forces; five carefully placed vocal tracks bring the playlist toward its more personal emotional register.
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40 songs
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solari
Ryuichi Sakamoto · async
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Eden
Hania Rani · Esja
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The Haunted Ocean 1
Max Richter · Waltz With Bashir (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Blue Notebooks
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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The Mighty Rio Grande
This Will Destroy You · S/T
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The Sinking of the Titanic
Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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The Host of Seraphim
Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time
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Aerial Boundaries
Michael Hedges · Aerial Boundaries
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Collage über B-A-C-H: Sarabande
Arvo Pärt · Pärt: Tabula Rasa & Symphony No. 3
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The Firebird Suite: VI. Berceuse
Igor Stravinsky · Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & The Firebird Suite
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The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives · Ives: Symphony No. 3 / Washington's Birthday
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Rain Tree Sketch II
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Complete Works for Piano
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13
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
Maurice Ravel · La Danse - Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
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Gnossienne No. 1
Erik Satie · Gnossienne No. 1
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15
Poa Alpina
Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera
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Endless Falls
Loscil · Endless Falls
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The Drop
The Haxan Cloak · Excavation
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Anvil
Lorn · VESSEL
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The Mark - Interlude
Moderat · II
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Caecilia
Fennesz · Endless Summer
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Kobresia
Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera
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22
The Light
The Album Leaf · Into the Blue Again
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23
Quiet
This Will Destroy You · Young Mountain
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The Pearl
Harold Budd · Wind In Lonely Fences 1970 - 2011
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The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
Jóhann Jóhannsson · The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
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Winter Linn
Clark · Clark
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Keep the Streets Empty for Me
Fever Ray · Fever Ray
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Feral Love
Chelsea Wolfe · Pain Is Beauty
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Marked for Death
Emma Ruth Rundle · Marked for Death
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The Door
Hildur Guðnadóttir · Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series)
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A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden (A)
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Black Lake
Björk · Vulnicura
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First Snow (feat. Kronos Quartet)
Clint Mansell · The Fountain OST
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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile
Henryk Górecki · Górecki: Symphony No. 3
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De profundis
Sofia Gubaidulina · Gubaidulina: 7 Worte; 10 Preludes; De profundis
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Become Desert
John Luther Adams · John Luther Adams: The Become Trilogy
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Janáček: In the Mists: I. Andante
Leoš Janáček · Janácek: Piano Music
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114: III. Adagio
Béla Bartók · Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
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Aqua
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing the Piano 12122020
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