One listen.

There’s two versions of this song and I decided to write about the first, and will probably do the second later on today if I have the energy. Writing about the first was interesting in that I kind of went in and out a bit. That shows, but I think it works.

Yuji Yoshida’s (吉田裕二) “Nightmare” (“悪夢”) is from Perfect Blue Original Sound Track, the soundtrack for Perfect Blue. The soundtrack was composed both by Yuji Yoshida and Masahiro Ikumi (幾見雅博).

I hope you enjoy.

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Steps, or a train going over tracks. A voice, distorted. Moaning, mumbling words. A sudden strike, voice responds, noise rises. Oscillating noise.sound. Seemingly suffocated

Intensity, dread, horror. A darkness spreading and sounds are stressed. Everything but the noise remains, and something seemingly mournful, sad. Maybe pensive rises. It’s a counterpoint that is soon harmed by strikes of what sound like guitar. It remains, lingers, but gets smothered in parts but what else is there.

This sadness disappears and the percussive sounds return, striking and rumbling, bouncing and echoing. The voice also returns, if only for a brief moment, or at least it seems like it does, along with fragments of others. Everything presses in and forces down, suffocates in a bubbling crowd. A relentless force; a cold, violent intensity.

The sadness returns and the percussion changes whilst retaining its form. Everything builds and builds, and the percussion increases its control, and everything keeps getting more and more and more.

Suddenly it’s just the percussion, some voices and a vamp, seemingly cycling, seemingly trying to align, lingering in tatters until everything reaches the song’s end.