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10 songs that feel like Une barque sur l'océan

Matched to Une barque sur l'océan by Maurice Ravel on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

Une barque sur l'océan
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Une barque sur l'océan
Maurice Ravel
safe 38/100 intensity 60 BPM
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence — Ryuichi Sakamoto safe 70 BPM

A 98% feel-match — carries the same calm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100).

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Images — Claude Debussy safe 60 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Same layered texture.

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Mirror — Charles Lloyd moderate 70 BPM

Keeps the same calm pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Measured 98% alike.

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Andante festivo — Jean Sibelius moderate 70 BPM

Measures 98% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Same layered texture.

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Song for My Lady — McCoy Tyner moderate 70 BPM

A 98% feel-match — carries the same calm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100).

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La Plus que Lente — Claude Debussy safe 60 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Same layered texture.

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Familiar — Nils Frahm safe 60 BPM

Keeps the same calm pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Measured 96% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (60 BPM).

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Four Hands — Nils Frahm safe 60 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (38/100). Same layered texture.

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Forest Flower Sunset — Charles Lloyd safe 70 BPM

A 95% feel-match — carries the same calm pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (35/100).

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Cape Town Flowers — Abdullah Ibrahim safe 70 BPM

95% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (35/100). Same layered texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Une barque sur l'océan” by Maurice Ravel?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” by Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Images” by Claude Debussy, “Mirror” by Charles Lloyd — the top match scores 98% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “Une barque sur l'océan”?

It measures 38/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 7/10, layered texture, mild sudden shifts, and instrumental. Tempo is 60 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

On our 19k-song scale this lands in the middle band — more energetic than 27% of songs, calmer than the other 73%. Its intensity reading of 38/100 comes from a dynamic range of 7/10, layered texture, mild shifts, and instrumental. It shares this stretch of the spectrum with thousands of other tracks, so the finer fingerprint below is what really separates it.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is a slow, unhurried pace: more extreme on that axis than 100% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep6/10
Focus10/10
Workout2/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype2/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

1905 in context

The 6 songs we’ve measured from 1905 average a dynamic range of 6.7/10. At 7/10, this track is right in line with its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity38
Dynamics67
Tempo11
Surprise25
Density33
Predictability50
Vocal force0
Trigger load0

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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