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A gentle, mostly acoustic instrumental journey for the rhythms of hostel life: packing up, settling into an unfamiliar bunk, and listening to the lives of fellow travelers. The playlist moves between intimate piano and strings, lightly pulsing electronics, and understated guitar, reflecting the memoir’s mix of discomfort, curiosity, and reflection without distracting from the page.
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Track List
40 songs
1
Remembrance
Balmorhea · All Is Wild, All Is Silent
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2
An Ending (Ascent) - Remastered 2019
Brian Eno · Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks (Extended Edition)
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3
Written on the Sky
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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4
Near Light
Ólafur Arnalds · Living Room Songs
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5
The Garden of Fand
Arnold Bax · Bax: Tone Poems, Vol. 1
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On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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7
Moss Garden - 2017 Remaster
David Bowie · "Heroes" (2017 Remaster)
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8
In a Landscape
John Cage · John Cage: Early Piano Music
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9
The Path of the Wind
Joe Hisaishi · My Neighbor Totoro Sound Book
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10
A Rainbow in Curved Air
Terry Riley · A Rainbow In Curved Air
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11
The Sinking of the Titanic
Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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12
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VII. Träumerei
Robert Schumann · Schumann: Kinderszenen; Kreisleriana
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13
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
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14
Intermezzo In A Major, Op. 118, No. 2
Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi
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15
The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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16
The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
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17
Music For A Found Harmonium
Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)
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18
Perpetuum Mobile
Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)
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19
Green Onions
Booker T. & the M.G.'s · Green Onions
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20
Apache
The Shadows · Shadows Are Go!
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21
Nuages
Django Reinhardt · Nuages
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22
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
John Adams · Adams: Shaker Loops / Wound Dresser / Short Ride in A Fast Machine
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23
saman
Ólafur Arnalds · re:member
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24
Bibo no Aozora
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing the Piano 12122020
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25
Sleeping Lotus
Joep Beving · Solipsism
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26
Winter Linn
Clark · Clark
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27
Divenire
Ludovico Einaudi · Islands - Essential Einaudi
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28
Avant la suite
Alexandra Streliski · Avant la suite
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29
Strange Meadow Lark
The Dave Brubeck Quartet · Time Out
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30
September Fifteenth
Pat Metheny · As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
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31
Minor Swing
Django Reinhardt · BD Music Presents Django Reinhardt
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32
Telephone And Rubber Band - Remastered 2008
Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Penguin Café Orchestra
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33
Dream
John Cage · John Cage: As It Is
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34
Waltz For Debby
Bill Evans · New Jazz Conceptions
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35
Blue In Green
Bill Evans · Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans
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36
The hills
Alexandra Streliski · The hills
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37
The Winter
Balmorhea · Rivers Arms
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38
Palais de Mari
Morton Feldman · Feldman, M.: For Bunita Marcus / Palais de Mari
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39
Concierto de Aranjuez: II. Adagio
Joaquín Rodrigo · Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez & Fantasía para un Gentilhombre
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