One listen.

I feel I’m not letting go enough and also not taking advantage of what words I know, and so what I wrote here feels quite limited to me. I think I was trying to get across an idea of where this song is used, but at the same time I don’t think I was. I’m not sure.

Hitoshi Sakimoto’s (崎元 仁) “Jahara, Land of the Garif” (“ガリフの地ジャハラ”) is from the soundtrack for Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XII Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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Scattered percussive strikes and a rattle as horns move through the background and seem to gradually grow prominent and fill out as percussion shifts in sounds. It’s a spacious and dry area, and calm, but unease seems to lurk.

The percussion fills out but becomes more gentle, and strings come in and draw long, and a flow begins… or at least a more obvious one. The sounds remain low, and that unease remains. There’s something mysterious here as the sounds move along the ground and create a continuation of a story, and they seem to ask questions.

All suddenly return to the start and carry forward some sort of might in connection. It continues on as the sounds roll into the flow once more, and all continue on from each other. In the dryness and in the space there is stillness, but there also is motion. There is a gentleness, but the percussion keeps things prepared and ready, just in case.

Eventually the sounds fade and the song ends.