One listen.

Heard this song a few days ago and it’s a bit cheesy. Highly dated in sound, but that’s part of why I wanted to write about it (and a few more from this soundtrack).

What this song does is capture a sense of wonder really well. It could be the wonder of a futuristic city, or a dewy forest. It could be the wonder of a time far ahead of ours. But it has that particular sound and feel.

I didn’t get that across as well as I’d have liked. I was trying to squeeze this writing in between things which was a bad way to go about it as my mind was elsewhere.

Hideaki Kobayashi’s (小林 秀章) “Day Dawns” is from Phantasy Star Online Songs of RAGOL Odyssey -Soundtrack EPISODE 1&2-, the soundtrack (or one of the soundtracks; I’m not sure) for Phantasy Star Online.

I hope you enjoy.

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Brightness shines in and percussion echoes. Suddenly a relaxed, cool future comes in. Bright, shiny, designed. Sounds flow forward with all the heightened impression of grand structures, sleek in design, seemingly forever.

The sounds continue, they rise. They rise up and the sky seems part of the structures, lost among them all but still there. Still distinct. Still itself.

A loop back to the start and that coolness remains. Around certainty, around the wonder of it all. Rising once more, then a descent into something a little lower, though with sounds picking up at the same time, it seems. Everything is wondrous, and everything is overwhelming, almost. But everything is contained. Everything lingers until a loop back to where it began.

This is simple, and it’s easy. It’s where the pleasantness of something new; something beginning lingers. Rising, looking above all from a position of under, and little to say that this isn’t the future. It’s a future envisioned, and its image fades away as the sounds do and the song ends.