One listen.

Went in, wrote the below. Surprising. Anyway, I wanted to try and build imagery as strongly as I could, but that didn’t work well. I started thinking too much about what it was that I was writing and then I didn’t really get into the imagery too much.

Hiroki Kikuta’s (菊田 裕樹) “Powell” is from Seiken Densetsu 3 Original Sound Version, the soundtrack for Seiken Densetsu 3.

I hope you enjoy.

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A rhythm moves back and forth and steadily forward. Percussion descends and rises, and everything descends. It’s calm noises, and maybe a little refreshing, but it’s not necessarily peaceful. They find a point where they kind of settle whilst remaining rapid, and woodwind joins in, pushing the melody outward whilst strengthening the inside. It’s as though a space in a shaded area. A space of light, or maybe not.

Back to the main melody and the sounds continue their moving forward. They go back to where the woodwind joins. They flow with an ease, coming in and out as needed and maintaining space.

A new section where the woodwind is either really high, or it’s just a high note of percussion, and it seems to be punctuating the whole movement. Tying it to a complete meaning before returning to the start.

And it’s back here, and the sounds move with a swiftness and a slowness at the same time. It all feels brisk; maybe like a breeze, maybe like a walk. Through it all there’s this structure that seems mysterious and organic. Fantastic and natural. And the sounds continue their move forward, and maybe the sounds are peaceful. But there still seems a tension in them. A sense that they are wound up, almost. Tightening, coiling, or slowly unfurling.

Eventually the sounds fade and the song ends.