Felthry's VGM Selection
Hall of the Elders
Metroid Prime
Kenji Yamamoto and Kouichi Kyuma
This reverent piece is played in the main hall of an ancient Chozo temple on Tallon IV, a place Samus returns to several times to obtain gifts left for her by the Chozo.
Like much of the music of the Metroid series, it says a lot with very little; there's a single, slow melodic phrase at the beginning, a solemn theme used throughout the series to represent the Chozo.
But rather than continue in conventional musical methods, the composers move to slow, steady tones with ambient sounds in the background that do quite a good job of conveying the idea of ancient supertechnology; sounds that are obviously artificial but not like any machine that exists on earth.
It does a very good job of conveying respect for those who went before.
