Umi's Dream OST

Umi’s Dream is a fictitious video game, imagined to be a side-scrolling platformer with a focus on exploration and narrative.

Umi is a young girl, named for the ocean. Her late mother, a marine scientist, drowned during an expedition when Umi was a baby. Though Umi has no waking memories of her late mother, the two are united every night when Umi dreams.

One night, Umi drifts to sleep and dreams as always - but this time her mother is missing.

1. Umi’s Dream is the titular track for the game, featuring both Umi’s Theme and Mother’s Theme. It would be played on the game’s start screen.
2. Mother’s Absence is for an imagined cutscene at the very beginning of the game, when Umi fades into her next dream only to find that her mother is absent. The narrative idea then leads into the gameplay. Featured in this track are variations of Umi’s Theme, Mother’s Theme, and the first instance of the Ocean Theme.
3. Blue Dream is the track for the first level. As Umi begins to search for her mother, she is plunged into a vast and strange sea where she can breathe underwater. A variation of the Ocean Theme is the most prominent melody in Blue Dream, broken by another variant of Umi’s Theme.
4. Bubble Reef is a relatively energetic track for another level, in which Umi comes to a lively reef teeming with coral and schools of hand-drawn fish. In this imagined level, Umi has a lead on her mother’s whereabouts. Variations of all three themes - Ocean, Umi’s, and Mother’s - are present in Bubble Reef.
5. Umi and Her Mother is the track for the final cutscene of the game, in which Umi and her mother are reunited. Variations of Umi’s Theme and Mother’s Theme are present.

Composed and submitted for OST Composing Jam #7.

Total runtime - 10:38

All music for Umi's Dream is composed by Jacob Motl. Original cover art by Jacob Motl.

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