Two listens for this one.

A rather iconic piece of music, especially for a particular age group that was into gaming in the early aughts. Certainly iconic to me, too. Tried to avoid that, and I think I did. Tried to get across the emotive aspect, and kind of didn’t.

Yoko Shimomura’s (下村陽子) “Dearly Beloved” is from Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack, the soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts. It’s also from (among many other releases), Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack COMPLETE.

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys ringing out peacefully, emotively. They play on gentle steps, a flicker here and there. Underneath something almost choral rises with, and more keys play with space, touching brief moments of memory whilst supporting and expanding upon the main melody.

There’s hope in this, and something magical, perhaps, but there’s also something sad. Maybe wistful, maybe longing. Maybe about what is lost as one moves forward. It is difficult to tell. But it carries familiarity and comfort, and it seems to look for something poignant.

There’s minimalism at play, and fragility, and it all rings out into space, and gradually it fades out, but it continues to linger after the song ends.