"Simian Segue" from Donkey Kong Country on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1995)
Composer: Eveline Fischer
CD Release: DK Jamz
Developer: Rare
This happy little ditty is a stage select song of sorts from Donkey Kong Country written by Eveline Fischer. It's the music that is playing while you decide which level you want to play to earn 24,000,000 lives before moving on to the next area. Like a fair amount of the songs from DKC, "Simian Segue" is a calming track with a simple melody that plays between the uncompressed MIDI piano and clarinet with a consistent bass and drum in the background keeping time.
For me, this song brings back a lot of memories from 1995 as well as that time that The Kid and I attempted to go through every level in one sitting without backtracking. We made it as far as Snow Barrel Blast, which probably took well over 29 lives as we passed the controller back to the other person upon dying. An interesting note is that Eveline Fischer was the one of the three composers who wrote "Northern Hemispheres," which is the song that's played during the Snow Barrel Blast level.
So yeah, not only good music, but good memories that go along with this 20 year old song. . .damn, two decades, as 1995 doesn't really seem that long ago.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
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