FF4 "Mysidia" Orchestral New Age Remix
399In this piece, I attempted to capture the essence of Mysidia from Final Fantasy 4. The original track (composed by Nobuo Uematsu) gave me shivers the first time I heard it! I felt it perfectly matched the bewildering experience of keeping one's appointment with fate and stumbling through an enlightened, yet justifiably hostile magical city, rife with peril.
Because so many of the townsfolk assail the player with various spells and acts of deception (as long as he stubbornly chooses to remain a dark knight, anyway), I wanted to imbue this track with a kind of mirage-like essence. I took inspiration from various 60's psychedelic bands such as Fever Tree and It's a Beautiful Day (two of my favourite bands, fyi). I used a whole bunch of Indian percussive instruments as well as harmonium (that's the groovy organ sound) and sitar. In addition to the more mysterious elements of the town, I also attempted to represent the wrath and judgment of the Mysidian people. I wanted to give it an almost heavy-handed "religious" quality, as though the villagers are an externalization of Cecil's inner demons, chiding him to rise to the occasion and vanquish his inner darkness before it's too late.
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