Soft piano notes dissolving into ambient haze. Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi is a 1997 PS1 title built around the painted worlds of Naohisa Inoue, and the soundtrack drifts right alongside them. Tracks like "市電の森" (Forest of the Streetcar) have this gentle, wandering quality, while "洞窟" pulls you into something darker and more enclosed.
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"上昇気流" lifts everything skyward with this rising, airy feel that perfectly matches the Laputa connection. The whole thing sounds like late-90s CD-quality synth and soft instrumentation, the kind of thing the PS1 could do when it wasn't trying to be loud.
Really contemplative stuff. If you ever wanted background music for staring out a window on a rainy afternoon, this is it.