Celestial Valley
Kirby Air Ride
Shogo Sakai, Jun Ishikawa, Hirokazu Ando, Tadashi Ikegami

youtu.be/6o-vCMBuL1w

Kirby Air Ride is one of those oft-forgotten gems in video gaming. It's simple, fun, cute, and just all-around appealing.

I like the mood of this piece. It's like a complete adventure in musical form. There's also a fun part at the beginning where the oboes play a bar, the flutes answer, the clarinets answer that, and then brass comes in with a fanfare.

@Felthry About the only way this track could get better is if the oboes and flutes reversed position each time the call-and-response came up, like two racers swapping the lead in a tense race. Even without that, it works really well!

I never did get to play this game, but it seemed like a fun concept. Thanks for reminding me of it!

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@ElectricKeet @Felthry I was gonna say earlier, if anyone would be able to hunt down who was the actual composer on this, it'd be Keet. :-D

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