One listen. I wanted to capture more scenery with this song and perhaps I could have, but that’s not where I went. But there’s something that came forward in what I was writing, even if most of what I wrote was more saying what was happening than anything else.

Nujabes’ “Horizon” is from Modal Soul.

I hope you enjoy.

—

A steady, relaxed, yet tight and punchy beat plays out whilst keys roll on out and flow and move into each other over it. Bass finds its way in, sort of bouncing, sort of rolling, holding a little space but remaining full. Another layer of low ambience flows and drifts, and it carries a calm; a pleasant calm.

Another sound starts moving over the others, adding more shape, sort of descending and rising. It is muffled and muted in a way that the other sounds aren’t, but it still sounds clear.

When that muffled sound disappears it’s back to the other four, and the low one comes forward a little more, it seems, and is warm. It is spread out in the moment, and it carries a deep look with it. here the beat had changed, or seemed to have, or maybe it was the whole flow, which was the same, but seems to have a bit more spring in it.

The muffled sound returns, and contrasts, and disappears, and the keys take the lead. They flourish in parts and keep themselves small; they avoid the large drama they could take, and step along. The keys disappear and the muffled sound comes back, offers something a bit more, perhaps obviously joyous for a brief period, then give room for the keys again.

The keys dance along and in them there seems to be a longing, and it’s all sorts of sunset and sunrise and day, and everything is moving, and everything is now in and that muffled sound rises high and glides before disappearing once more.

The rhythm has remained steady and continues to underscore it all, and the keys are dancing once more, flowing and swaying, and changing along the line, and avoiding overplaying. Avoiding extending too far, and they touch delicately.

The bass stops and the keys continue with their motion. The flow continues on, and the low ambience seems to fill out once more. It becomes larger, more prominent, bringing everything into a focus and the keys soon also stop. Into a focus, or rather a smaller point and that ambience keeps moving, holding its focus, beyond where the beat stops it drifts on, lingers, layers, stays warm. It eventually stops and the song ends.