Two listens for this one and it was a bit of a struggle.
Not enough sleep.

I think this turned out mostly okay. There’s some of an idea of the song here but a lot of this feels like it relies on what I’ve written before in the manner of a crutch. I think that is due to just going for the obvious rather than allowing myself to be a bit more free with what I was writing.

Shoji Meguro’s (目黒 将司) “Memories of the City” is from Persona 3 Original Soundtrack, the soundtrack for Persona 3.

I hope you enjoy.

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Piano vamps whilst a swirl of sound draws on before pulling away. Piano takes lead whilst something akin to strings continues from the swirl, right there with the keys, filling the space between their despairing moments.

A shift where guitar shimmers and rolls as the keys ring out, and it’s like a pause of hope. It’s a reaching through the sadness and looking toward some sort of hope. Bass, percussion, and another guitar comes in and rises above and moves around the sounds, carrying the heaviness but looking beyond.

Now it’s just the strings and guitar and percussion, and maybe the bass is there too, and they are reflecting on when piano took the lead, and it seems to cover the same ground but it speaks to action; it speaks to taking a stand and some sort of defiance, and resistance and desire to push forward in the face of despair. It’s a slow movement but there is more lifting from the heaviness.

Percussion continues as the sounds return to the first shift and in all the pressure is a moment of stillness; for breathing, for knowing what was and what is now, and the second guitar returns and lifts, and it all fades away as the song ends.