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Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1

Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1

STYE362 · Mark Wardale
Cues12
ReleasedJul 2012

Tracks

12 main mixes
Arctic Circle
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
6:13
AvantegardeBeauty, Dark, Drama

The album's longest and most stripped-back cue: drone, pad and synth sustained for over six minutes with no percussion or melodic lead. Built for glacial, wide-open imagery and extended narration where the music must stay out of the way.

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6:13
Sevemaya
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
5:10
AvantegardeBeauty, Dark, Drama

Horns, trumpet and French horn set against strings, bells and unpitched noise across five minutes, making it the most brass-forward and dramatically dark piece on the record. It suits long sequences that need mournful grandeur and an unsettled undertow.

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5:10
The Dead
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
3:03
AvantegardeBeauty, Dark, Drama

Darker than its neighbours: strings and brass over drone and pads, with organ adding a funereal, sacred colour. Three minutes of grave, mysterious atmosphere for footage dealing with death, ruin or old institutions.

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3:03
Sorath
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
2:33
AvantegardeBeauty, Drama, Dreamy

Strings and pads underpinned by drone, with brass and a solo trumpet line bringing a ceremonial edge to the album's ethereal language. Around two and a half minutes, it reads as ominous but noble — a reveal or an approach rather than a resting place.

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2:33
Last Goodbye
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
1:33
AvantegardeBeauty, Drama, Dreamy

Solo piano alone, unaccompanied, for a minute and a half — the barest and most directly sad cue on the album. Its title points to farewell, and its brevity makes it a natural fit for a single quiet moment rather than a sequence.

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1:33
Athropolis
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
5:15
AvantegardeBeauty, Drama, Dreamy

Pure texture: pads, drone and sound design layers held for over five minutes with no melodic lead at all. A tension and atmosphere bed for scenes that need scale and disquiet without a musical event.

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5:15
The Gotland Pony
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
1:30
AvantegardeBeauty, Drama, Dreamy

A ninety-second miniature with vinyl surface noise, guitar, piano and a low drone under a soft pad — nostalgic and faintly worn-sounding. Ideal as a short interlude or a title card where a full cue would be too much.

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1:30
Kolovesi
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
4:30
AvantegardeBeauty, Drama, Dreamy

Same choir, piano, pad and reverse-sound palette as its companion pieces, given four and a half minutes to unfold at a slower, more patient pace. Suited to extended scenes where the music needs to sit under narration and hold an atmosphere of remote beauty and unease.

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4:30
Taiga
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
2:44
AvantegardeBeauty, Drama, Dreamy

A short choral-ambient piece with piano, pads and reversed sounds smearing the edges of each phrase. At under three minutes it is the compact version of the album's northern-wilderness mood — dreamy, cold and slightly uncanny.

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2:44
Boreal Forest
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
3:31
AvantegardeBeauty, Drama, Dreamy

The most band-shaped cue here: choir and wordless voices and piano set against distortion guitar, bass and drums, giving the album's ethereal palette a post-rock weight. Over three and a half minutes it can lift from hushed pads to a fuller, heavier crest suited to widescreen landscape footage.

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3:31
Barquiel
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
3:54
AvantegardeBeauty, Drama, Dreamy

An atmospheric texture piece using running water field recording, woodwinds and a low drone, with distant and male voices treated as ambience rather than lead melody. Roughly four minutes of ritual, otherworldly stillness that never settles into a conventional structure.

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3:54
Surround Myself
STYE362 · Cinematic Avantegarde Vol.1 · Mark Wardale
5:16
AvantegardeBeauty, Drama, Dreamy

A long-form ambient piece built on sustained cello and string writing over synth pads, with bells and sparse piano marking time rather than driving it. Its five-plus minutes stay reflective and unhurried, moving between beauty and quiet grief without a clear climax.

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5:16

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