One listen.

This one I really struggled with and it may have to do with how tired I am. It could also do with being unprepared.

I don’t feel I threw myself into this enough and kind of spent a bit of time hesitating. I like the result, but I can see where it could’ve been so much better.

Joe Hisaishi’s (久石譲) “Meet Again” is from the soundtrack for Kids Return.

I hope you enjoy.

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A short piano flourish strikes some sort of feeling of remembrance. Perhaps reminiscence. It strikes repeatedly, and percussion comes in behind, gently. Strings pulse as the keys move here and there; the percussion keeps building and anticipation rises into a spreading out; a layering, an openness; a dreaming, a desire to succeed and work out what it is that is important.

These are perhaps the realm of the grand, but they are small. They are human, and from them questions naturally arise within the delicate sounds mixing with the ones that are perhaps louder and more in the forefront. There is a split between hesitation and stepping forward.

Eventually the sounds reach this sort of settling point, or resting point. It’s almost quiet. Almost disappearing. When percussion returns with its pitter-patter, and things seem to be building back up, waking up and rising, and that’s roughly what happens.

A more pulsing, strident beat comes in and brings the sounds into perhaps a faster space. They remain at the same speed as before, but they are faster, and everything drives on forward. Vocals come in briefly and the strident beat pulls away, and everything is gentle again, perhaps question for a moment.

The beat returns with other sounds and once more it is brief. It stops for lower percussion and brief pulses of strings, striking out, emphasising, finding the sound in the silence between before releasing into a more gentle flow. Here the keys caress, flicker off. They carry melody and guide it until silence takes over and the song ends.