One listen.

Heard the opening of this song this morning, decided to hold on it until I could write about it, which was just now. I wasn’t sure what would come forward which is good. No notions or expectations other than trying to get across the song in some manner, and I feel I succeeded in that regard.

Benjamin Briggs’ “Climb my Mountain, This High” is from Threshold Of A Dream: A Musical Interpretation Of The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. As per the title, the album is a tribute album covering the music of Link’s Awakening, and Benjamin Briggs reinterpreted “Tal Tal Mountain Range“.

I hope you enjoy.

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Steady is the beat whilst low sounds carefully breathe. A dramatic melody is established, and a leading sound comes in and starts climbing. The beat gets busy, seems to explode, but then it settles when the melody shifts. There’s adventure here, but there’s also danger. But there’s also conviction.

The leading sound has disappeared, or at least changed into something else, and through this the song starts building and building, and it becomes grandiose, almost, but then pulls back, if only a little.

Here there’s a reflection of that opening, and some sounds are more distorted, but it’s all much more present. A moment is looped and in comes through with confidence and and then pulls away. Things are minimal once more, and it’s all looking at the climb and the experience, and the sounds keep on shifting and changing as they progress and move on that steady beat.

It all seems quite reflective of something. It seems steady, and it all keeps going as it becomes muted, and the danger seems to lift. Clouds seem to clear, and there’s some success; some satisfaction in it all, as a goal is reached just before the song ends.