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The Midnight Train Playlist

20 tracks

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Oct 21, 2026

A gently shifting instrumental journey for Wilbur’s passage through memory: spacious piano and ambient textures suggest the train’s strange forward motion, while intimate, wistful pieces evoke Maggie, Venice, and the pull of a life that might have been. The mood gradually turns from longing toward reflection, keeping a steady, unobtrusive flow for reading.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Golden Times 1

Ben Lukas Boysen · Spells

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2

The Pearl

Harold Budd · Wind In Lonely Fences 1970 - 2011

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3

Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim

Harold Budd · The Pavilion Of Dreams

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4

Sometimes

Goldmund · Sometimes

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5

The How of it Sped

Bing & Ruth · No Home of the Mind

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6

Bent

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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7

Untravel

Rival Consoles · Persona

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8

dlp 1.1

William Basinski · The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)

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9

Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No.2

Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Complete Nocturnes, Barcarolle, Berceuse

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10

Consolation No. 3 in D-Flat Major, S. 172

Franz Liszt · Liszt - My Piano Hero

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11

Gnossienne No. 5

Erik Satie · Satie: 3 Gymnopédies; 6 Gnossiennes etc.

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12

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35: III. Marche funèbre

Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Preludes; Sonata No.2

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13

The Ludlows

James Horner · The Ludlows

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14

The Gravel Road (from "The Village")

James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4

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15

The Shape Of Water

Alexandre Desplat · The Shape Of Water (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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16

The Light

The Album Leaf · Into the Blue Again

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17

Turn Away and Return

Hammock · Everything and Nothing

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18

Andata

Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing the Piano 12122020

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19

Divenire

Ludovico Einaudi · Divenire (Deluxe Edition)

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20

La valse d'Amélie

Yann Tiersen · Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Bande originale du film)

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