Am I insane, or are there some -really heavy- references to Adams, Nyman, and other really modern operatic composers being made in this track? My operatic minimalism recognition is a bit rusty, but it seems like the sound team is definitely pulling from an extremely wide - and extremely classical - pool of inspiration.

This was also my favourite thing about FF13's soundtrack - the influence of Debussy and Ravel, and of French impressionism in general, was unmistakable; I love being able to trace musical influences, and the music nerd part of me goes off on an unending squee tangent when it's to something relatively unknown these days. There's a lot of familiar organ toccatas and baroque choral influences, and a lot of modern rock, that are fairly common in VG music, but I love composers - like Mitsuda with his Celtic and world influences, and the FFXIV sound team - that go really far afield and compose things like this that sound really unique as well as incredibly epic.

I -love- this track, I love the XIV sound team; as much as I loved the original ST I'm beyond thrilled to hear the sound team will be doing a significant amount of work for 2.0's background tracks.