Three listens.

I didn’t draw out much from the song, though that could have to do with where my mind is at the moment. I think I still expressed its atmosphere, or at least part of its atmosphere quite well.

Masami Ueda’s (上田 雅美) “A Monster’s Presence” (“物の怪の気配”) is from Ōkami Original Soundtrack, the soundtrack for Clover Studios’ Ōkami, a lovingly-crafted game. The soundtrack was composed by a few different people and the aim was (as far as I am aware) to create something that fit the setting quite well. If so then it was successful.

I hope you enjoy.

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A heavy wind of silence presses in, ominous, lowering, whilst chimes ring hollow. Something presses in. Something lurks at the edges and looks to move in and move closer.

The wind picks up and the chimes continue. They haunt as they ring outward, into the wind, their sound being carried away into nothingness, and the space weighs down. There’s perhaps a harshness that comes through, and then suddenly it all fades away and the song ends.