"The Song of the Wind" from Divine Divinity on Windows & OS X (2002)
Composer: Kirill Pokrovsky
Album: Divine Divinity
Label: GOG
Publisher: cdv Software Entertainment
Developer: Larian Studios
This song has really grown on me in the last couple of months. When I first listened to it outside of the game, I thought it was alright. There was nothing inherently wrong with the piece, nothing stood out to me as jarring, and nothing made me pause what I was doing to listen to the song again when it first came up. However, since that first play, I've been playing a lot more of Divine Divinity, and I've been visiting Rivertown as it's my go-to town for equipment repair and item selling. Each time I play, I probably spend 5-10 minutes in this town alone, so I hear this song a lot, which is not a bad thing now that this song has really sunk its hooks in me.
As for the song itself, I can't quite tell all of the instrumentation involved. It sounds like there's definitely a harp there in the background, but the stringed instrument at the forefront, I can't tell exactly if it's a lute, a dulcimer (because of the quick stacatto-esque notes around 0:10, 0:17, 1:14, 1:27, etc.), or if it's just a digital string instrument. The first 50 seconds kind of blend into the background for me, after the initial four seconds of, "Oh, yay, the Rivertown song." But then at 0:54 and 1:43, something about that flittering melody there gets me every time. It's now one of my favorite songs in the game, and I'm going to bring down whatever divine wrath I have if whoever the antagonist in this game is ends up destroying Rivertown and I never hear this song again.
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