One listen, and this one was a bit of a struggle to do. I decided to go more for a really vague narrative than anything else which helped. Still, I wasn’t able to switch off enough and that comes through.

Hayato Matsuo’s (松尾 早人) “Seeking Power” (“求めし力”) is from  the soundtrack for Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XII Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack was composed predominantly by Hitoshi Sakimoto (崎元 仁), and features contributions from Hayato Matsuo, Masaharu Iwata (岩田 匡治) and Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫).

I hope you enjoy.

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Pressing atmosphere whilst asking heavy questions. Sounds move with tension; with terseness. Steady, slowly, unfurling, revealing more of a situation. Of what drives questions and pushes them further and further. Of moving to the next steps.

There’s some hesitancy. Some self-pushback. Uncertainty in whether this is the right thing and through it realisation comes. That realisation can serve well, but before it can be realised the sounds return to where they began.

Rising and falling in a pressured space. Arguments, reasoning… words back and forth. Questions about how to go ahead. How to move forward. What comes at the cost of achieving goals if those goals refuse to consider options. And on it continues as the sounds fade away and the song ends.