I felt it was best in here as there's no general music forum.
For me it was maybe this -
I know I wanted an instrument that sounded like that but I wasn't sure exactly what to get. I was even considering a Harp for a while! Then I decided for those high, ringy, fairy tale bard sort of sounds a Mandolin was the best. That opening chord is such a ####### pain to play though!
I have a pretty interesting story about that song too, I always really liked it back when I watched the show it was used on, but I forgot about it for years. I rediscovered it once or twice after watching the show but then forgot about it again. At some convention or other I heard it playing in the background and it was just so haunting it really grabbed me and I just had to know what it was. I thought it was a Yoko Kanno track since she has a lot of tracks like that(she even composed the B side for that single) but I searched through everything she did and found nothing.
So then one day I decided to hum it into the soundhound app of my phone... and it picked it up! I was so amazed. And I'm glad I have this song again, and checked out other songs by Akino Arai.
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