One listen.

Got a fair bit out with this one and I’m kind of surprised. I don’t think I did well enough to paint the scene. Was kind of doing so at the start, then veered away hard.

Hitomi Satos’ (佐藤仁美) “Abyssal Ruins” (“海底遺跡”) is from Nintendo DS Pokémon Black・White Super Music Collection, the soundtrack for Pokémon Black and White.

I hope you enjoy.

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Shimmering percussion and strings of light come in through from above the surface. More percussion frames the space, and the strings lower. More come in, adding more shape, and things seem to settle before changing form.

The percussion rattles and echoes out, and another instrument comes in, fluttering and moving with the strings, or moving in steps alongside them. Sounds settle, the strings create some ominousness. They create a murk, and all seems darkened. Sounds return to flow and moving with each other, and mystery comes forward. Then some of it lightens up, if only for a moment. There’s still that murk, and perhaps some menace. Some uncertainty, but it’s a little lighter for the moment.

Eventually that full tension comes through again and it draws long. It draws heavy and reinforces, but it once again is countered when more instrumentation returns and adds that minor sense of adventure all the way through to the sounds fading at the song’s end.