One listen.

I don’t think what I wrote is anything particularly interesting, but I do think that for once pressure helped out quite a lot. Had to rush out shortly after this but I was feeling relaxed about the whole thing.

I think that perhaps I focused too much on describing the song and not pulling out imagery, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. I think you’d get a good idea of the song if you read this whilst listening.

As a side note, this reminds me of Ryota Kozuka’s (小塚良太) “Empyrean” (“至高天”), though seeing as this came first, I should probably be thinking the other way around.

Masashi Hamauzu’s (浜渦 正志) “Setting You Free” (“終焉の揺籃”) is from Final Fantasy XIII‘s soundtrack, Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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Distorted, twisted sound phases into view. Somewhere from behind something that sounds akin to voice rises up and comes forward before more shifts and warping lead to a brightly dulled sound engulfing everything. It sets a platform, or a view and it’s not long before a beat appears and pulses with a thud.

Strings draw long in lines, fading in and almost out, seemingly casting majesty, and that voice bubbling is there, but also not quite.

An oddness; a sense of things being not as they seem, and then more sound comes in. Mainly percussive, echoing out and those voices seem to come forward, or at least further into visibility without coming too far into the front.

This seems so otherworldly, but before it can continue the sounds drop away and reveal something seemingly more familiar that rapidly expands, engulfs, overwhelms and grows louder and louder before dissipating, leaving that vaguely familiar sound to draw out on a precise moment. It reaches that moment, then suddenly stops and the song ends.