Northwest Passage Mixtape

[WheelofDave]

I'm about to begin researching the lost Franklin expedition, as well as polar exploration in the Victorian age, for a film project and I'm looking for music that will help me establish a headspace for my work. It can be spooky; that would be great! Just think of the isolation, the cold, the starvation, the animal attacks. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[mystified]

http://www.archive.org/download/http://archive.org/details/Cold_Point_Station

[ffcal]

Try Simon Fisher Turner's soundtrack to "The Great White Silence."  The film is about a doomed British expedition to the South Pole.

Forrest

[drone on]

Nautic Depths by Grassow/Weiss

Glacial Movements label

[Scott M2]

"erebus & terror" by David Bickley and Tom Green    It's very good and was released on the h/s label.

[Scott M2]

There's also "Terror & Erebus", a verse drama for radio (1965) by the great Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen which has a 2000 CBC production with soundscapes by Darren Copeland. This will be hard to find though.

[LNerell]

Just a few off the top of my head:

Tuu - The Frozen Lands
Biosphere ‎– Substrata
Vangelis ‎– Antarctica 

[ffcal]

If you're looking for something a bit more prog and epic, I'd go for David Bedford's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Forrest

[Dave Michuda]

taylor deupree - snow
duncan ó ceallaigh - distant voices, still lives
tim hecker - haunt me, haunt me, do it again
Cliff Martinez - Solaris
dakota suite - the night just keeps coming in
maps and diagrams - get lost