Album info: VGMdb
Album download: Website
(Search for the text “アルバムをダウンロード”, which is a free download link. The one for this album is above an image of a sunbeam shining through a forest canopy.)
Info
This is a free album posted online by game composer Rikako Watanabe under the name Renko Maeda. She wrote a bunch of music under this name in 2015 and 2016 before getting going professionally with Basiscape under her real name.
The theme is a “healing-style album to accompany rich nature scenery,” which means lots of piano, mallet and hand percussion, light orchestral textures, and triple time, with occasional world instruments and environmental sounds. It’s cool seeing early examples of her later harmonic and rhythmic writing here; this album is particularly reminiscent of her work on CARAVAN STORIES Original Soundtrack Vol.6 (see tracks like “Chaktek Great Rift Valley” and “Narupopo Fruit Garden”). I like it!
Recommended tracks:
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“Playing With Nuts and Fluffy Snow” (track 3) predictably sounds like some Christmasy light music
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“Foliage Cathedral” (track 10) has some cool, vaguely threatening synth textures mixed in there
(track titles are unofficial translations by me)
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