One listen.

This is a song I’m quite familiar with, and my comfort in that familiarity may have hampered the writing a bit as instead of switching off, I wrote what I already thought, mainly.

There are some parts of sentences that are a bit less things I’ve thought about, but overall… it does give a strong idea of the song and how it’s used, but this could’ve been more.

Nobuo Uematsu’s (植松 伸夫) “The Mines of Narshe” (“炭坑都市ナルシェ”) is from Final Fantasy VI: Original Sound Version (also known as Final Fantasy VI Original Soundtrack), the soundtrack for Final Fantasy VI.

I hope you enjoy.

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Strings and strings stir, lowly rising, revealing a fragility. Bass and percussion come in as the strings waft, and the sounds move through that fragility, but they also move through tension. They move through a deep heaviness, and a cold.

Keys flicker in but keep their space, and soon something akin to woodwind comes in, rises up, calls out, seems to cry out, before lowering and fading away.

The sounds loop and the air is thick, and that piano dances on a wire once more. The woodwind cries out once more, and pressure pushes on in this downbeat space, and it continues all on, uncertain if it will reach a breaking point, and the sounds fade as the song ends.