One listen.

I put this one off for a while, and I’m not sure why. Maybe I felt a bit of hesitancy due to how the song flows. I don’t know. Anyway, I tackled it a bit earlier and  think what I wrote works, though I do wish I kept moving toward imagery.

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

I hope you enjoy.

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Something mysterious. Something that reveals something greater, or at least leads to it. Something that feels different to the known. It shimmers and shines; it reveals light and structure, and structure does indeed form around it. Something specific starts sounding out in thin beams. Long, spindly beams flowing outward, drifting away.

When percussion, bass and vocals come in, the shape changes. There are guitar scrapes here and there, and the bass seems to heave whilst the percussion almost hesitates and steps resolutely in equal measure.

There’s a determination in the sounds. almost, and violin works its magic, moving back and forth, and eventually a moment of build comes, though it seems that many of the sounds become thinner, as though compressed. The vocals move to the centre, or rather they reveal themselves as in the centre and they layer and grow, and bloom as the percussion keeps a base under and around them.

And the vocals disappear for a moment whilst most of everything returns, and sound drifts and presses and gets stuck on itself and flows and flutters, and everything spreads out in the space. It’s almost as though there’s breathing for everything, and tone and atmosphere become key.

A focus on the vocals once more, and once more they disappear. Sounds continue the main structure, and vocals among other sounds return. They flicker like a flame, and they build and fall, and some sounds shine and twinkle, and slowly everything fades out and the song ends.