Pure warmth from the first note. Sorauta's special disc opens with the full vocal version of the title song and it sets this incredibly tender tone for everything that follows. "With You Under the Shade of a Tree" is exactly as gentle as it sounds, all soft piano and this feeling of afternoon stillness.
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"Non Stop!!" breaks the mood with actual energy and it's a welcome shift halfway through. The instrumental closers strip the vocal tracks back and let the compositions breathe on their own. "Memories of a Distant Day" does that thing where a simple melody carries more weight than it should.
Just quietly devastating. If you play Windows VNs from that early 2000s era, this is the kind of disc that reminds you why those soundtracks mattered.