Three listens for this one.

I was a bit distracted when I was writing this and I think it seeped in a bit. At the same time I think it helped keep the focus on just describing the song which is fine. Still, the writing, whilst sufficient, could be much better.

Spencer Nilsen’s “Home Bay” is from “Ecco the Dolphin“, the soundtrack for the Sega CD version of Ecco the Dolphin.

I hope you enjoy.

—

Bass and synth play gentle whilst the sounds of dolphins is heard in the distance. The synth extends from itself as a light crystalline shimmering begins to fade into view. That shimmering is an oscillation and it eventually seems to take a lead, or at least hold the greatest prominence. As it reaches that point a light percussive shuffle helps build some sort of grandness whilst keeping things gentle, and hints of woodwind subtly underscore the sounds.

A sudden shift and that shimmering now moves slower and with more space, whilst another sound takes lead and seems to rush. Others draw slow and gentle in this new space of otherness; of a sense of sudden loss and displacement from the idyllic.

There’s a return to what was before and it is, of course, familiar. Maybe the light percussion comes sooner, and it seems that the sounds are looking to get to their shifting point with more urgency, and they do.

Once more a shift, and this time into a more pressing space. The sounds are the same, or at least similar to before, and they urge until what seems like a shattering, spreading into itself, before the song ends.