One listen.

Heard this song for the first time in a while a few days ago. Onto the list of things I wanted to write about very soon after. Threw myself in and I think I got a little stuck, but overall what I wrote works fine enough. Could be better; could be much better, actually, as what I wrote relies a bit on knowing the visuals of the area in which the song plays, I think.

Hitoshi Sakimoto’s (崎元 仁) “Eruyt Village” (“エルトの里”) is from the soundtrack for Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XII Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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A ring out as strings rise and fall in a dry space. Woodwind floats on in, and it is a peaceful space, though perhaps at the edges tension lurks. It’s peaceful and dry, but there’s sadness, though maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s focus.

The sounds rise and the woodwind flutters upon a still breeze, dancing. It pulls away and strings come forward and pull back, and they stir with a relentless calm. They give way to greater percussion, playing out a steady beat that echoes lightly, and that too disappears and the strings return, falling and rising, and stirring once more, and the percussion returns and plays out a few more moments before it all cycles back to the start.

And that dryness returns, and the space flows upon the woodwind as it flutters and floats, and some sadness comes in, but from whose perspective is the sadness coming from? It might not be there at all from the inside, and just an outside thing.

Sounds flow along, steady and moods and words float on by, and upon it all action seems to stir, or at least direction before it is time to move on, and the sounds fade out and the song ends.