Assommoir

Book Playlist

Assommoir Playlist

10 tracks

balanced

Sep 20, 2026

Set against late-night Paris poverty and the slow tightening of dependency in Zola’s Assommoir, this playlist moves through quiet, workaday textures—laundry-house hush, street-damp air, and the emotional drift from hope to collapse. The instrumental focus keeps a high-attention, low-distraction atmosphere while still tracing shifts in tension, relapse, and brittle tenderness across the story’s arc.

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Track List

10 songs

1

Pruit Igoe

Philip Glass · Koyaanisqatsi

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2

The Heart Asks Pleasure First

Michael Nyman · The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture

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3

Spiegel im spiegel

Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait

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4

A Moment Apart

ODESZA · A Moment Apart

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5

Koyaanisqatsi

Philip Glass · Koyaanisqatsi

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6

The Last of Us

Gustavo Santaolalla · The Last of Us

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7

Gymnopédie No. 1

Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends

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8

Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi (From "Amélie")

Yann Tiersen · Piano Movie Lounge

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9

Blue In Green

Bill Evans · Sunday in Spring

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10

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Charles Mingus · Mingus Ah Um

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