One listen.

This one is rough. I was trying to work out what I could say instead of just writing, the reason being that I let my familiarity of the song take over too much. I spent time trying to work out how to describe architecture when this would’ve been best served by just letting go and writing freely, or just focusing on what the sounds were doing and little else, I think. At least, at the time I wrote this, that would’ve been best.

Nobuo Uematsu’s (植松 伸夫) “Esto Gaza” (“聖なる地　エスト・ガザ”) is also known as “Sacred Ground Esto Gaza”. It is from Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack, the soundtrack for Final Fantasy IX.

I hope you enjoy.

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A slow, still space forms. Preserved to put something forward; to hold reverence. And soon the slow motion starts. Simple sounds playing with space, keeping things relaxed, keeping things small. Humble, perhaps.

More sound comes in, creating detail, but the space remains. The stillness holds. These sounds move carefully and they slowly create an ornate space. They reveal details and movement, and then most disappear. Keys linger on their own, in this bright space, before everything loops back.

The sounds keep moving slowly. They move carefully, and they carry a small wonder within them, but there is something grander underneath it all. Something within a kind of worship and putting forward sacred preservation, but also the wonder of spectacle and how it creates that kind of reverence. Mythology.

And so it continues on as the sounds fade and the song ends.