Lagrima

Songs tell stories. Music tells stories. Without words. That's what I think.

Rather. Music conveys emotions. Things that cannot be described. Discrete notions of a particular emotion described using words like 'Love', or 'Anger', or 'Passion' - can't beat the directness of music.

Here's a story I came across on Youtube while listening to FF music by Nobuo Uematsu. A story about a musician. Composer and guitarist Francisco Tarrega.

He was a Spanish guitarist who lived from 1852 to 1909. He became famous for his playing and started traveling to other areas of Spain and also outside Spain to perform.

At one time, he performed in London, but apparently he didn't like it very much there. People noticed that he always appeared sad after his performances. The story goes that he missed his home, and he went on to capture that in this piece, Lagrima (spanish ~ tears).

I remembered that name. Thanks to a friend who introduced me to him. I don't know how to play the guitar, and it's times like these I go thinking 'why didn't I learn the guitar?'

For now I shan't bore people with the Final Fantasy part of it. Suffice to say, Nobuo Uematsu is very likely to have been inspired by this piece of music when composing his own piece, "On The Other Side of The Mountain". It seems very likely; played back to back, the two pieces meld very nicely.

To me, it seems like Other Side is an extension of the original... can I call it masterpiece? My friend says it's boring. True, it's not very technical, but umm... I think sometimes what makes a masterpiece is not how much skill was involved. Sometimes you behold a piece of work, and it moves you. Something connects with you. It's hard to put into words, because it can't. Words fail you. Then, even if only to you and you alone; then, that piece of work is a masterpiece.