One listen.

This is another song I’ve had queued up for a while but dragged my feet on writing about, and I don’t know why, to be honest. Was easy enough to write about… for the most part. The song makes use of uilleann pipes and I thought a lot about how to describe them and what they were doing. I ended up not doing so as thinking about how to was taking too much time and so instead I went elsewhere with the writing.

Yasunori Mitsuda & Millenial Fair’s (光田 康典 & ミレニアル・フェア) “Creid” is from Creid. The album is an arranged soundtrack based on music from Xenogears.

I hope you enjoy.

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The whisperings of sound are gently present. It’s not long before choral voices come into the present, into the space and continue that expression of gentleness. Of calm, of cradling, and they rise and fall, then stop. Then they come back, lower a little, descend before rising up in what feels like some sort of light reverence.

It’s a flow and a journey. It’s expression, and those sounds that were whispers are coming a little more forward, becoming a little more prominent, and they sing and shine, and then everything stops.

New sounds come in, playing harsh and joyous and gentle, and some of the familiar returns, and soon percussion plays rough and plays it gently. Sound calls out across the landscape, across the wonder of the space, and those vocals return. Strong threads weaving their way through everything, harmonising, almost becoming textural sound whilst a slow flight, a light joy comes through.

A shadow, a coldness appears for a brief moment, but the joy of innocence, of youth playing, of the grandness of the land and the ocean, and the world, and how small we are comes through, and that shadow is just a part of life, and it’s all so light, and almost dreamy, and it all floats on until whispering is all that’s left, drifting as though thoughts and reflections at the song’s end.