One listen.

Trying to describe what was happening with the instruments was what my mind decided was the way to go here, and in a way I think it helped. Had I written more freely, I think I wouldn’t have written anything at all.

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

I hope you enjoy.

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Sounds flow through a spacious, deep area, and some wonder blooms forward as various areas lay themselves out and spread away. Keys take centre stage for a moment, settling and scattering and bunching up. Then more sound comes in, building some tension, finding paths then blooms and flourishes in a dramatic display, before returning to the start.

And so the space frames itself once more, and great moods find themselves spread thick. Textures and tones rise and curl around and bloom out once more, finding the rises and falls and the moment to punctuate and emphasise. It’s almost a breath of air, or at least a moment of respite before going back in as the sounds fade away and the song ends.