Babel

Book Playlist

Babel Playlist

by R. F. Kuang, Michel Pagel

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 26, 2026

4 mixes for this book

The instrumental opening evokes Oxford’s cloisters, the strangeness of translation, and the uneasy machinery of imperial power; the vocal half shifts toward identity, complicity, and resistance. The selections connect Robin and his classmates’ intimate conflicts to the larger costs of empire, while balancing reflective passages with surges of urgency.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Babel

Mumford & Sons · Babel (Deluxe Version)

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2

Fantasia on Greensleeves

Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.

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3

Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1

Gabriel Fauré · Songs from the Arc of Life

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4

stella

KASHIWA Daisuke · program music I

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5

The Lonely People (Are Getting Lonelier)

Stars Of The Lid · The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

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6

Prelude for Time Feelers

Eluvium · Pianoworks

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7

The World Is Our ___

This Will Destroy You · Young Mountain

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8

Breathturn

Hammock · Chasing After Shadows... Living With the Ghosts (Deluxe Edition)

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9

P

Labradford · Mi Media Naranja

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10

The Blue Notebooks

Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)

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11

The Sun Smells Too Loud

Mogwai · The Hawk Is Howling

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12

Chinese Translation

M. Ward · Post-War

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13

Paper Planes

M.I.A. · Kala

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14

Borders

M.I.A. · AIM (Deluxe)

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15

People Have the Power

Patti Smith · Dream Of Life

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16

Masters of War

Bob Dylan · The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

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17

Englishman In New York

Sting · ...Nothing Like The Sun

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18

Words

F.R. David · UK Synthpop Hits

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19

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Gil Scott-Heron · Pieces of a Man

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20

Ship To Wreck

Florence + The Machine · How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Deluxe)

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