Moonlit, mist-heavy atmosphere from the first note. Hoshitsuguyo is a Windows visual novel from 2007, and its disc Hoshizukuyo sounds like wandering through a Japanese garden at night with ghosts whispering poetry. Footprints appears in five versions across the album, from the original vocal to music box to piano to full arrangement, and each one reshapes the melody into something different.
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Drifting mist under the moon lives up to its name with this suspended, barely-there quality. Hazy moonlit night goes even deeper into that fog. The track names read like a waka poem. Fragrant flame in the dark. To the realm of the dead.
Sky of eight thousand stars. For anyone who wants a soundtrack that feels like incense smoke and old ink on paper.