One listen.

This one came easy, and the drama of it felt more fitting too. I think I was able to get enough down, and overall there’s a decent idea of the song.

Yasunori Nishiki’s (西木 康智) “Ruins Immermorial” (“悠久の遺跡”) is from Octopath Traveler II‘s soundtrack, Octopath Traveler II Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys rise in a quiet, and more keys, much higher up start echoing down, seemingly dancing. They take careful steps, but they are not hesitant. Soon strings fill the space between, and they seemingly reshape some of the melody.

A rising of percussion, and so does woodwind, and all the expansive sweep of the drama becomes apparent. It reaches through a past and pulls to the present in a slow and graceful movement as sound spreads out its dramatic motion, revealing a beauty of the passage of time whilst pressing upon a slight urgency.

All returns to the start, and it’s almost as though the ticking of a clock, or at least a demarcation of the passage of time, even when the strings come to fill the space once more.

That sweeping reveal returns, and in it that urgency seems a little more apparent now, but also a slight lifting of weight. The space seems to breathe, almost, and it seems to come alive, or at least that’s implied.

Eventually, however, the sounds begin to fade out and the song ends.