Eastern Dreams

Live fiddle and mandolin over stomping drums and upright bass at a moderate 105bpm in D, the slowest and most deliberate build on the album. Balkan dance figures gather weight rather than speed, arriving at a full-band trailer back-end.

A fast 140bpm D-major romp with driving hand percussion, sawing violin and picked mandolin, festive and openly celebratory. The energy is high from early on and pushes to a big ensemble finish.

The album's quirkiest cue: 130bpm in F minor with a mischievous, slightly Klezmer-tinged violin and mandolin lead over marching percussion. Comedy and drama sit side by side, making it useful where menace should stay tongue-in-cheek.

At 180bpm in A major this is the fastest cue here, with a Celtic-leaning reel feel in the fiddle and mandolin over relentless drums and bass. Flat-out celebratory momentum straight through to a hard-hitting close.

C minor at 120bpm gives this a darker, heavier tread than the album's major-key dances, with violin melody carried over thick percussion and bass. Steady escalation toward an emphatic orchestral-folk back-end.

A processional 128bpm D-major cue, the longest of the mid-tempo group, built on drums, bass and a singing violin line doubled by mandolin. The title's sense of a final march reads as bittersweet resolve rather than defeat.

140bpm in A minor: fast but minor-keyed, so the fiddle and mandolin lines carry a plaintive edge over the driving folk rhythm section. Emotional and narrative, with a full-force ensemble climax.

At 3:11 the longest cue on the album, 132bpm in C minor, with genuine tension in the writing before the folk ensemble opens out. The extra length allows a slower, more patient rise from sparse percussion and bass into full violin-and-mandolin drive.

The shortest cue here at 2:24, a compact 130bpm D-major burst that trades development for immediate agitation — tense percussion, restless violin, tight mandolin figures. Ideal where a full trailer arc has to fit a short edit.

120bpm in A minor with a Celtic inflection, this is the album's most seductive and sinuous cue: violin and mandoline melody winding over measured drums and bass. Restrained at the outset, then gathering into a dramatic full-band back-end.