One listen for this one.

Threw myself into this. I’ve been lagging a little too much and so I just “went for it” and I think the result isn’t too good, but it’s better than some other recent attempts. It doesn’t feel as tired, I think.

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

I hope you enjoy.

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A drop echoing as though a breath in thickened silence. Soon a low drone comes forth and upon it a series of sounds play out a sense of pressing wonder. A percussive strike and a slow beat different to the other percussion already there plays steadily.

At this point the drone has shifted to a higher point and it seems shorter. More sounds play out slowly and play with a connection in their starting and stopping; in their marking moments.

A shift back down in a seeming pause, seemingly holding on a moment that moves forward and surrounded by motion before that rolling percussion returns and the sounds coalesce to form something that pushes on forward; that keeps its stillness and keeps the menace and the dread and moves through motion before stopping and returning to the start.

Slowly things come back into view around the echoing drop, and now a slightly greater range of sound becomes apparent. Something descends and lays over, and once the drone shifts upward again something seems to look around and search, seemingly disconnected from everything else, yet aligning well.

Rises and falls in the drone seems to lap at other sounds, perhaps as pulses in water. They become more frequent and that additional sound keeps on searching, and it’s all through a thickened darkness, and it all keeps going until a final moment where it all seems to stop, sans the drone which lingers ever so slightly as the song ends.