Warriors without a soul “I grant to you a soldier who has no heart. One who will not falter in the darkness” What would it be like to take a snapshot of your soul at… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Elegy of Emptiness
Enchanted tunes can also be evil Koji Kondo back at it again in capturing exactly the meaning of a word in musical form. This is a tension filed track for when you are slowly being… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Sharp’s Curse
A soul shining in the land of the dead “Even now it is a place where troubled, regretful spirits gather” Fight as if your life depended on it, but what about when yours is already… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Ikana Valley
Directing a croaking choir Time to say goodbye to the professional jazz band and welcome the Fabulous Five Froggish Tenors. Well, that was how they referred to themselves back in Ocarina of Time. But who… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Frog Song
Writer’s unblock We will spend some more time with the legendary Indigo-Go’s. After all, they have the big responsibility of writing the important end credits song of the game, a very delicate matter that has… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Songwriting Session / The Indigo-Go’s
Music runs in the family This is most likely the type of music Koji Kondo would e doing by himself if he wasn’t attached to a company but just following his muse, not restrained by… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – New Wave Bossa Nova
The Illegal Navy We meet an organized group of thieves in Majora’s Mask and, once again, they are none other than the all-female Middle-Eastern influenced Gerudo, just this time they are the people of the… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Pirates’ Fortress
From a fellow musician to another “It seems my lucky color this week is green” Now things are about to get real…or not. On the one hand, this is a moment where we experience the… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Mikau
A paradisiacal inferno If you thought the whole alien saga was ridiculous—in the best possible way—then you will see Majora’s Mask not holding back on its ocean level. There is your standard fare, of course:… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Great Bay Coast
A not so pastoral life “By doing one good deed, a child becomes an adult….I now acknowledge you as being an adult!” One of the most engrossing sequences in the game finds Cremia, the ranch… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Cremia’s Carriage
The rock cup This is a race. This is a goron race. Say no more, It is just a matter of bringing back the horse race cue and plaster goron instruments everywhere, replacing the hillbilly… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Goron Race
Because rock people can also be soft The second “warp song”—or at least its equivalent—from Majora’s Mask. It also shares a bizarre pedagogic method with all the other dungeon ocarina tunes from the game; first… Read More »Inside The Score – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Goron Lullaby