46 - Face Shrine - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Orchestral Arrangement

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The creep factor in this piece is less about the mellow tone of the piece itself (although the melody never resolving is creepy enough), but the fact that a melodic "baroque prelude"-type melody is suddenly placed as a dungeon theme, when we were accustomed to more intense atmospheric pieces. This almost suggests either a deep back story behind the dungeon, or just the lingering traces of Link's emotions as he continues in his quest, knowing the truth. While in the Southern Face Shrine, the theme was characterized by deep lows and soaring highs, in the Face Shrine, the melody stays locked in the mid section. Although I still went high up with the violins, I at least left out the Cello and Basses, so the endless drone of the clarinets can remain distinct. I also deliberately left out the variation of Ballad of the Wind Fish here, and used an original tune here to build on top of the repeating phrase. This was inspired from the soundtrack to Let the Right One In, as well as Bach's Prelude no. 1 with Gounod's Ave Maria superimposed on top of it (as pointed out by happysquidNET).

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Orchestral Arrangement
Arrangement and fan art by Jeremiah Sun

Original Composers
Kazumi Totaka
Minako Hamano
Kozue Ishikawa

Original Theme by Koji Kondo

You can buy this game for 3DS from the Nintendo eShop