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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Playlist
“Yumi and the Nightmare Painter” is a braided story of two worlds—garden-spirit calm and nightmare-tech dread—so this playlist alternates between soft, organic instrumental landscapes and lyrical tracks that feel like shifting between wonder and threat. It also threads character energy: quiet resilience and curiosity for Yumi, and eerie, urgent determination for Painter as their lives intertwine and their communities’ fate closes in.
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Track List
20 songs
1
Swan Lake, Op. 20, TH 12, Act II, No. 10: Scène (Moderato - Più mossoe)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
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Hoppípolla
Sigur Rós · Takk...
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3
Adagio in G Minor
Tomaso Albinoni · Adagio in G Minor
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4
The Promise
Michael Nyman · The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture
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Nightcall
Kavinsky · Nightcall
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Electric Love
BØRNS · Dopamine
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Where the Light Comes In
Sarah Neufeld · The Ridge
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The Less I Know The Better
Tame Impala · Currents
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To Build A Home
The Cinematic Orchestra · Ma Fleur
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Lieder ohne Worte V, Op. 62: VI. Allegretto grazioso, MWV U161 "Spring Song"
Felix Mendelssohn · Mendelssohn: Songs without Words
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Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture, TH 42
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Tchaikovsky: Ouverture Solenelle Op. 49 "1812"; Fantasy Overture "The Tempest"; Marche Slave, Op. 31; Fantasy Overture "Romeo and Juliet"
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Gymnopédie No. 3
Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends
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Grieg: Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, Op. 46: I. Morning Mood
Edvard Grieg · Grieg: Peer Gynt
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Paul Dukas · Fantasia 2000
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Bolero
Maurice Ravel · Klassik die man kennen muss! Die größten Werke der Klassischen Musik
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The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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Il trovatore, Act II: Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie "Anvil Chorus"
Giuseppe Verdi · Verdi: Il Trovatore
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18
Classical Gas
Mason Williams · The Mason Williams Phonographic Record
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Clair de lune
Claude Debussy · Träumerei - Liebestraum - Für Elise - Clair de lune - Gymnopédie - Sony Classical Masters
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