Game info: Wikipedia
Listening: YouTube (untagged, incomplete), PSF set (missing movie BGM)
Credits
Sound Compose: Akihiro Juichiya, Takako Ochiai
Info
A cryptic, psychological soundtrack for a cryptic, psychological PS1 masterpiece. It’s a little too broad to pin down stylistically, but it strongly features elements of ambient noise, jazz, and prog, with healthy doses of weirdness and cool synth sounds. Listening to this feels like an otherworldly delusion.
I listened to this soundtrack before I ever really knew anything about the game, and it was the kind of soundtrack that makes you want to play the game, because it’s so good and also because you just have to know what possible context any of this music could have. And it turns out the context is really messed up as well!
Recommended tracks:
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“Lodge” is a tense, atmospheric track for what is actually one of the least hostile areas of the game
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“Mental Meeting” is just a 27/16 piano ostinato with a few other elements sprinkled on top and that’s cool, especially when the additional piano comes in halfway through and again near the end
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“Colony 3” is a very peaceful tone setter with a warm synth and environmental noises
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“Final Boss” is prog as hell and sounds a whole lot like Akihiro Juichiya
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BGM004 is a beautiful polymetric piece that wouldn’t be out of place in a mystical shrine in a JRPG, and I’m really upset that I never found where it plays either time I played the game
(track titles are unofficial)
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