One listen. I tried to throw myself in and think about what I was writing at the same time, and I think some of it works and some of it could be better, but overall I think this represents the song well enough.

Yasunori Nishiki’s (西木 康智) “Hinoeuma” (“ヒノエウマ地方“) is from Octopath Traveler II‘s soundtrack, Octopath Traveler II Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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A heaviness spreads out of the gentle sounds as they flow with focus. Percussion oscillates as strings tease out drama and mood, and soon the rhythm changes but the flow doesn’t. Woodwind steps as strings entangle themselves into a smooth underscoring, and the sounds rise and fall with all the energy they need.

They keep going higher, pushing up and up until no more, and they drop a little. The beginning is repeated, but with more context, and a twinkling of percussion ushers in higher sound, well above the foundation, but seemingly firmly part of it.

A switch and everything expands and it seems there’s a bit more hope now. There’s a reprise from the weight; not shaking it off, but moving beyond it, if that makes sense.

A return to the start and the sounds flow on as they did previously. There are those hints of looking forward, of not being bogged down, and they seem to grow in prominence gradually. They remain intertwined with the heaviness and they are more subtle, but they are there.

The sounds remain driven and they keep flowing forward, and they look with focus and perhaps a conviction. Once they reach that expansive moment once more, they fly onward, seemingly free, but of course it’s a fleeting moment, and eventually everything fades as the song ends.