One listen.

Had this one queued up a few days ago, but stuff to handle. Anyway, I think I captured the area in which is song is used more than the song itself, but that also captures the song, so… yeah. I think I did a good job here too. Could be better, but it always can be.

Yoshino Aoki’s (青木佳乃) “The Distant Holy Lands” (“聖地はるかに”) is from the soundtrack for Breath of Fire IV, Breath of Fire IV: Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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A descent upon an ongoing line that rises a little and has woodwind float on from it. More sound drifts and descends and rises here and there, and strings grow large, perhaps dramatic, but remain small. Slow, moving carefully. Moving in a way that suggests an unknown. Reverence, perhaps.

These sounds move with each other, around a space that seems untouched by time. Aged, but untouched. There is a stillness that carries the past without preventing it from being in the present. The sounds pull away, that descent changes shape for a moment, moves quicker. Stops, has a response, and then a return to the start.

Moving around the space the sounds do, and take their turns to find where they all meet. They carry that reverence; they carry that importance. They mark tradition and responsibility, and they hold still as they move and change. They move controlled, retempered, and they move toward a fade as the song ends.