Mother of Learning
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Mother of Learning Playlist

by Domagoj Kurmaic

20 tracks
balanced
Nov 11, 2026

These tracks move between the measured, recursive feel of repeated days and the momentum of investigation, spellcraft, and danger. The instrumentals evoke Cyoria’s study rooms and uncanny magical machinery, while the vocal selections lean into Zorian’s isolation, determination, changing bonds, and hard-won sense of possibility.

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20 songs
1

Requiem for the Static King, Pt. 1

A Winged Victory for the Sullen · A Winged Victory for the Sullen

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Love

Mica Levi · Under the Skin

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Can You Hear The Music

Ludwig Göransson · Oppenheimer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Abiogenesis

Carbon Based Lifeforms · World of Sleepers

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Anthem

Emancipator · Soon It Will Be Cold Enough

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Kiara

Bonobo · Black Sands

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In Motion

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross · The Social Network

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Time

Pink Floyd · The Dark Side of the Moon

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A Forest

The Cure · Seventeen Seconds

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No Surprises

Radiohead · OK Computer

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The Logical Song - Remastered 2026

Supertramp · Breakfast In America (Remastered 2026)

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The Killing Moon

Echo & the Bunnymen · Ocean Rain (Expanded; 2007 Remaster)

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Where Is My Mind? - 2007 Remaster

Pixies · Surfer Rosa (2007 Remaster)

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14

Every Day Is Exactly The Same

Nine Inch Nails · With Teeth (Bonus Tracks)

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15

The Sound of Silence - Acoustic Version

Simon & Garfunkel · Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

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16

Learning To Fly

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers · Into The Great Wide Open

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17

Time is Running Out

Muse · Absolution

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18

Everloving

Moby · Play

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19

Greenland

Emancipator · Safe in the Steep Cliffs

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20

She Just Likes to Fight

Four Tet · There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)

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