collections 5:10

When I was younger, around the age of sixteen or seventeen, I had discovered the most beautiful song that I had ever heard in my life- even to this day. I found it in my days spent dancing around mp3 rotation websites, downloading new music, and getting a better understanding for that pallet which I was diversifying. This song, however, was a beautifully orchestrated piece with vocals that sent chills throughout my entire being. At the time of downloading, I wasn't familiar with the artist nor was I familiar with the language the song was even in. I concluded that it might be Ryuichi Sakamoto and let that be that, essentially forgetting all the leg-work that I would normally take on a piece that I found so beloved (which, to this day, I no longer set by idley.) In any case, I'd sent it to my best friend at the time- a girl named Michele Wong, who in later years, I would lose touch with only to regain in my second year of college. Between those two points, the computer that contained the song had been a victim of foolishness as a girl who had been at a party I held spilled Bacardi Zombie all over the the machine, making it unusuable. The song was lost to me at that moment and my only hope for every finding it again was that Michele Wong might still hold it in her possession. As the year passed and Michele got in touch with me over a different occassion, I asked her, "Do you remember... that song?" Without even going into specific detail, she knew what song I spoke of- however, she too had changed computers in the years between our speaking. The song, as I knew it, was lost. I've spent the last two years searching for it, assuming that Ryuichi Sakamoto might be the right path. Truth be told, the song fits his style, but thus far, I've had negative results in finding the piece. I feel as though I've listened to everything he's ever produced, but peering at his catalogue, you'll see that he's been quite an active composer throughout the course of his career and it would take hours of leg-work, even to an extent of financially investing in the majority of his albums which aren't available for online download, to actually get a conclusive hold on the song for which I'd heard in those days past. The song, reminiscent of his most popular hit, Forbidden Colours, might've had the term "color," in it... The fifth color, or something of that nature- the unfortunate part is that I can't even find the title. The major difference between the two songs is the tempo, the one I'm searching for having a faster one with an electronica style beat done in high, chime-like tones. The vocals are female, unlike the male vocals of David Sylvian in Forbidden Colours and in a language I'm unfamiliar with- or at least was at the time. Perhaps it's Japanese and only now would I be able to recognize it, but unfortunately, Ryuichi Sakamoto's vocallists tend to break all language barriers and be of many different origins. I think about this song, which I've deemed the most beautiful song ever, and I wonder if there'll ever be any way of recovering it... maybe breaking open my old laptop and seeing if that harddrive is recoverable, or actually spending the money to try and purchase his catalogue of albums. Until then, I'll continue searching for the song as I had- because even though it's been years since I've last heard it, it still whispers to me through the annals of my past.

Just give me something to listen to and I'll be inspired for another lifetime.