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This sequence moves from the weary, close-quarters hush of the brothers’ flight through Civil War wilderness to the uneasy warmth of Sarafina’s cabin, then into the dread beneath its hospitality. Instrumental passages evoke the woods, battle-scarred exhaustion, and an increasingly uncanny refuge; the vocal selections draw on themes of desertion, hunger, temptation, family, and the cost of survival.
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20 songs
1
The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives · Ives: Symphony No. 3 / Washington's Birthday
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2
Threnody
Goldmund · The Malady Of Elegance
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The Sinking of the Titanic
Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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Aerial Boundaries
Michael Hedges · Aerial Boundaries
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The Planets, Op. 32: VI. Uranus, the Magician
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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Down By The Water
PJ Harvey · To Bring You My Love
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The Mercy Seat - 2010 Remaster
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Tender Prey (2010 Remaster)
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Work Song
Hozier · Hozier
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Wicked Game
Chris Isaak · Heart Shaped World
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bury a friend
Billie Eilish · WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
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Somebody's Watching Me
Rockwell · Somebody's Watching Me
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12
Glory Box
Portishead · Dummy
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13
The Man Comes Around
Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: III. Adagio
Béla Bartók · Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
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Metastaseis
Iannis Xenakis · Xenakis, I.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 - Metastaseis / Pithoprakta / St/48 / Achorripsis / Syrmos / Hiketides Suite
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Black City Skyline
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Sunset Mission
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The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
Earth · The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
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18
Bloodstone
Amon Tobin · Foley Room
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Band · The Band
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