One listen.

I heard this song a few weeks ago, found myself surprised that it was used in a fishing game, then remembered that music of this kind of sound and feel is often found in places you wouldn’t normally consider. It’s part of why I like digging into game soundtracks; there’s a lot of excellent music to find there, and plenty of interesting ways to hear how sound is used. Of course there’s plenty of stuff that is forgettable or boring or bland, but that’s pretty normal for music in general. You have to do a bit of digging.

Anyway, I went in, wrote what I felt made sense. It’s a beautiful, tranquil bit of music that has this undercurrent of sadness and I tried to capture that. As I listened I started thinking more about other things and the song faded out before anything got too complex / deep / introspective, and quite clearly that came through in what I was writing.

Tomoyuki Hamada (濱田智之), Satoshi Miyashita (宮下智) and Chamy’s (aka Masayoshi Ishi [伊師正好]) “Track 08” is from Reel Fishing: Wild aka Fish Eyes: Wild in Japan. There was no soundtrack of the game released and I don’t know if this was composed by a combination of the aforementioned composers, or just one. This track could’ve been composed by someone else who worked on sound for the game. It could’ve been done specifically as T’s Music, a music production company. Also, there’s no known official name for the song, but it is two minutes and twenty seconds long, if you ever want to seek it out.

I hope you enjoy.

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Soft, perhaps melancholic sound settles gently. Guitar plays around it, and so do keys, though in a different way. They all find a note to settle on before commencing once more. Shining, shimmery, sun glistening upon a surface, and all is pleasant, but there is that melancholia there. It does seem to lift a little, then come back in states of what seems to be a question.

Everything starts again, carrying mood. Carrying calm joy, carrying relaxation, carrying excitement, and carrying sadness. Carrying it forward, asking questions about life, about time, about what is and what should be, and the thoughts continue, getting further as everything fades out and the song ends.