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A dark, shifting soundscape for a woman navigating necromancy, alchemy, and the uncertainty of lost memory: the instrumentals move between ritualistic tension, confinement, and fragile hope, while the vocal songs give voice to grief, survival, and dangerous attachment. The sequence keeps its focus on the book’s themes and emotional contrasts without presuming details beyond its premise.
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20 songs
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Fólk fær andlit
Hildur Guðnadóttir · Fólk fær andlit
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Dance For Me Wallis
Abel Korzeniowski · W.E. - Music From The Motion Picture
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Agape
Nicholas Britell · If Beale Street Could Talk (Original Motion Picture Score)
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Requiem for the Static King, Pt. 2
A Winged Victory for the Sullen · A Winged Victory for the Sullen
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A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline
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Changing Winds
Alexandra Streliski · INSCAPE
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Dead Already
Thomas Newman · American Beauty (Original Motion Picture Score)
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Escape
Craig Armstrong · Plunkett And Macleane
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Buka
Hania Rani · Home
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Prokofiev: 10 Pieces from Romeo & Juliet, Op. 75: No. 6, Montagues and Capulets
Sergei Prokofiev · Prokofiev : Piano Sonatas 4 & 6, Romeo & Juliet selection
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Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z. 860: Funeral March I
Henry Purcell · Purcell: Sacred Music & Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary
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String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96, B. 179: II. Lento
Antonín Dvořák · Grieg, Glazounov, Dvorák
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Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70 (Reflections on "Come, Heavy Sleep"): VIII. Passacaglia
Benjamin Britten · Relaxing Classical
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Feral Love
Chelsea Wolfe · Pain Is Beauty
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Flatlands
Chelsea Wolfe · Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
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Fuel to Fire
Agnes Obel · Aventine
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Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)
AURORA · All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend (Deluxe)
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Me and the Devil
Soap&Skin · Sugarbread
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The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove
Dead Can Dance · Wake
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