One listen.

I feel like I tried to force this writing in a particular direction and I don’t think it worked. There was a bit of reaching throughout (and that continued on through the next two) and so I feel because of that this reads awkwardly in places.

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

I hope you enjoy.

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Drawing long and along a moving water’s surface as bits of vagueness muffle their way in, and other, more clear sounds come in as blips and complete lines. Keys grow visible and soon everything starts taking a less drone-like approach.

The keys emphasise a melody and there’s some sort of weight and heaviness, or perhaps a dire peace. Woodwind flickers from the keys and eventually the pattern stops and seemingly a bubbling comes in, though maybe it’s not a bubbling. Maybe it’s a churn. It’s a beep of sorts. A rapid beep.

The pressure and urging comes through but it’s buoyed by melody. It’s countered by the thrust of determination; of the desire to search and work out and resolve, and protect.

Eventually many of the sounds pull away and the woodwind takes the focus. As the sounds seem to build back and fade in and out the woodwind glides and searches. It moves through the space and takes as much time as it needs before everything returns to a familiar pattern, though this time slightly augmented by some additional sounds.

The flow grows wider and richer, though that pressing remains. It remains as more woodwind comes in and highlights, accentuates. It remains as the will to carry forward continues and the fluttering of percussion and woodwind continues their looking forward.

The pressing remains, but it remains buoyed. It remains countered when the sounds reach their final moments and the woodwind keeps flickering until the song ends.