One listen.

I queued this song up a good few weeks ago and then sat on writing about it because no good reason. Right now I’m trying to get things all neat and tidy so I can be caught up on things and so I threw myself in… after procrastinating on throwing myself in for a few days.

Anyway, I think I wasn’t loose enough with my writing here. I also feel like I was sort of rehashing stuff I’ve written before.  Still, I think I covered the song well enough. There’s a good enough idea of it here.

Masashi Hamauzu’s (浜渦 正志) “Luxerion” (“光都ルクセリオ”) is from the soundtrack for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack is comprised of compositions from Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta (水田 直志) and  Mitsuto Suzuki (鈴木光人).

I hope you enjoy.

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Strings move back and forth, grow loud and quiet, and build some sort of anticipation. Keys and percussion enter and keep themselves gentle, though obvious. Woodwind approaches and drifts gently, though it also tightens and rises above everything for a moment.

The melody keeps expanding; it keeps developing layers, though those end up disappearing and leave mostly the strings which seem to have risen upward as the melody changes whilst remaining familiar. It all then ends on a brief strike of keys, and now things seem a bit more sentimental in a sense. There’s space and the strings come and go, seemingly pushing inward, or perhaps revealing things.

A new beat comes in and the strings drift and float over it, as do the other sounds, and that beat then pulls away and there’s a bit of eeriness creeping in. but there remains a sense of sinewy beauty. Then a return to the start.

The strings move back and forth and gently press and urge, and other sounds return, and it all builds, and that urging is there, but it remains gentle. It seems almost as though there’s a teasing of the revelatory, or a suggesting.

The melody changes and it ends at that striking of the keys, and the sentimental sense returns, and maybe it’s not about the sentimental, but rather taking a breath. Maybe it’s about having a pause, and the following percussive change is the same.

Things seem slower, and vocals float on in and are low and mostly blended into what is going on, and maybe they were there before, but now they are more obvious.

The strings draw long and they seems to fade out among other sounds for a moment. Then a return to the start, but it doesn’t last. It quickly stops and leaves a trailing of sound at the song’s end.