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Lights Shimmering on the Ocean

By 4ntler on January 18, 2026 2:50 pm

Gas lanterns lights are reflected on the ocean waves, as you sit on the quay and stare out at the horizon.

Originally I was working on something else this week—some Krautrock dystopian thing—but I wasn't really content with it. I decided to scrap it on Sunday and started afresh with the track you're hearing now.

Again, something in the style of VGM (my big love). The instrumentation's channeling some N64 water levels and Super Mario Galaxy/3D World stuff, and the imagery I had in my mind was something along the lines of FFV8's Fisherman's Horizon: serene and silence while watching the waves slosh against a low-poly harbour.

Last year I spent quite some time ~playing~ trying to play jazz piano. I feel like that's paying off as well.

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Beautiful! Immediately took me to chill PS1 RPG music, by the ocean perhaps, I've also just been playing FF8 so FH was on my mind even before I saw your comment.

This is so evocative of water, not even sure why! This is that waterfront city in an RPG where you get to rest and heal up!. someone needs to turn your tracks into a game, dude!

Wait, you did it in one day? Crazy!

That totally sounds like oldschool jRPG music. Great work!

Great track! Very inspiring smile

impbox wrote:

Beautiful! Immediately took me to chill PS1 RPG music, by the ocean perhaps, I've also just been playing FF8 so FH was on my mind even before I saw your comment.


Ahhh, neat! FH is one of my favourite video game locations. Don't know why, it's just so...peaceful?


Wisefire wrote:

This is so evocative of water, not even sure why! This is that waterfront city in an RPG where you get to rest and heal up!. someone needs to turn your tracks into a game, dude!


Would love that! Might do it myself someday, haha, if I ever find the time.

Thank you for the compliments.

dreat wrote:

Wait, you did it in one day? Crazy!

That totally sounds like oldschool jRPG music. Great work!


Yeah, though it took a couple of hours! Mostly spent time doing jazz gymnastics behind the piano, and I piggybacked on M8 instrument presets from others.


Synnefa wrote:

Great track! Very inspiring smile


Thanks, man, you too!

Seaside town vibe at the part in the game where your party needs to rest after a big battle.  Wonderful vibes at work here and great melodies

Disposable Planet wrote:

Seaside town vibe at the part in the game where your party needs to rest after a big battle.  Wonderful vibes at work here and great melodies


Spot on! Thank you for listening and the compliments, means a lot smile heart

Very serene indeed, and nice playing smile

Love it, some of those chords are just tremendous. Very relaxing energy.

This is very pretty. Delightful even.
- Spider

Awesome track, very Yasunori Mitsuda energy. 

.exe wrote:

Very serene indeed, and nice playing smile


Thanks! Though the material itself is all manual input :’D

2haf wrote:

Love it, some of those chords are just tremendous. Very relaxing energy.


Glad you like the harmony, probably what I spent the most time on tweaking.

DESLRV wrote:

This is very pretty. Delightful even.
- Spider


Much appreciated smile

Napear wrote:

Awesome track, very Yasunori Mitsuda energy.


One of the greatest! Thank you for the big compliment heart

love that glassy doogie_howser e.piano heart Love how the chord backing gives me mario swimming vibes.  This was a dreamy escape.  Though also interested in da krautrock!

Simple instrumentation belies the more complex songwriting. It's the type of song that will survive any cover attempt by even the most alarming musician.

Tone Matrix wrote:

love that glassy doogie_howser e.piano heart Love how the chord backing gives me mario swimming vibes.  This was a dreamy escape.  Though also interested in da krautrock!


Haha, as a millennial European I had to look up that reference and, hey, I learned something about Neal Patrick Harris today. Thanks! Yeah, was totally going for that Dire Dire Docks atmosphere.


MRDRCAT wrote:

Simple instrumentation belies the more complex songwriting. It's the type of song that will survive any cover attempt by even the most alarming musician.


That's a big compliment in my book, MRDRCAT. Thanks!

I sometimes have the tendency to put "more and more" in my music, but this week was all about solid and pure composition. Really appreciate your words.

really lovely ps1 rpg type vibes. the. harmony sounds so cute it's very small town lovely heart

instantly brought back to one of my favorite DOS games: EcoQuest:Search for Cetus (alongside Super Mario 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time underwater areas).

Fantastic vibes (or should i say waves 🌊)

yay, I finally found the village in the sky!

MaisieMarra wrote:

really lovely ps1 rpg type vibes. the. harmony sounds so cute it's very small town lovely heart


Time to spend some gil in the shop and the night in the inn 🙂

eoe.vibin wrote:

instantly brought back to one of my favorite DOS games: EcoQuest:Search for Cetus (alongside Super Mario 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time underwater areas).

Fantastic vibes (or should i say waves 🌊)


Ohhh, I know Ecco the Dolphin of course, but I will check out EcoQuest. Scrubbed through a yt video and looks and sounds nice! Thanks for the tip ^_^

As_Yoesual wrote:

yay, I finally found the village in the sky!


Love that rpg trope! Have been so many lovely sky villages

So good! instant super mario 64 vibes heart

Coldsushi wrote:

So good! instant super mario 64 vibes heart


Caught me red-handed wink

So soothing

RoccoW wrote:

So soothing


Hah nice, that fits heart

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