Subdue is a soundtrack of a 2016 film I've not seen whose Persian lyrics I can't comprehend. It's only the English titles like "Shadow", "Let me go", "Here come my tears", The cloud and the rain", "Devastated", "Confounded" and finally "The Beginning" which formalize certain stations along the long emotional arc drawn by a string orchestra, undulating high male vocals, a crying spiked fiddle, a tremolo lute, simple piano fronting background strings, reedy woodwinds mixing in. It's a very lyrical translucent often elegiac soundtrack which firmly stands on its own merit without the moving pictures for which it was first composed. That certain tracks would be short goes with the territory. Those are more than made up for by the long opener and two central tracks. If sonically you're in a rainy-day mood filled with wistful daydreaming, Subdue will turn on the overhead faucets and provide the necessary transportation…
