Katabasis

Book Playlist

Katabasis Playlist

20 tracks

balanced

Nov 4, 2026

6 mixes for this book

A Cambridge-minded blend of precise, uneasy instrumentals and lyrical songs about ambition, grief, power, and the peril of pursuing someone into the underworld. The sequence moves from intellectual rigor and foreboding through descent and confrontation, then toward the complicated emotional reckoning between Alice and Peter.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Andata

Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing the Piano 12122020

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2

La petite fille de la mer - Remastered

Vangelis · La petite fille de la mer

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3

Kids Will Be Skeletons

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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4

In C

Terry Riley · In C / Djembé

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5

Musica ricercata II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale

György Ligeti · Ligeti: Piano & Harpsichord Works

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6

Black Refraction

Tim Hecker · Virgins

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7

Armellodie

Chilly Gonzales · Solo Piano

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8

Ghosst(s)

Lorn · Ask The Dust

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9

Dream

John Cage · John Cage: As It Is

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I Put A Spell On You

Nina Simone · The Best Of Nina Simone

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Hell

Squirrel Nut Zippers · Lost at Sea

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12

Burn the Witch

Radiohead · A Moon Shaped Pool

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13

No Light, No Light

Florence + The Machine · Ceremonials (Original Deluxe Version)

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14

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen · You Want It Darker

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15

Ain't No Grave

Johnny Cash · American VI: Ain't No Grave

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16

Seven Nation Army

The White Stripes · Elephant

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17

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

Kate Bush · Hounds Of Love

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18

People Are Strange

The Doors · Strange Days

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19

The End of the World

Skeeter Davis · Skeeter Davis: RCA Country Legend

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20

Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: I. Dawn (Lento e tranquillo)

Benjamin Britten · Britten: Four Sea Interludes

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