yet here we are. someone on YT said they discovered Momus through an ICO concept vid and i was like, what
About the music At the time (late 1990s), it was an attempt to use popular music rather than exclusive music for the game, and even an existing song. It was a rare time. I chose the songs from a CD that happened to be on the desk of Fumihito Ueda, the director and game designer of ICO.
There are two songs that were turning points for me, and this video uses Momus' "Summer Holiday 1999'' (Summer Holiday 1999). The other song was "Scarborough Fair'' by Simon & Garfunkel, which was used in the first presentation video after development was transferred from the original PlayStation to the PlayStation 2. Both were memorable songs that perfectly matched the video we were developing and gave us a sense of what we were creating.
for its part Summer Holiday 1999, which i strongly associate with my early days of transition, was inspired by the very strange, alluringly atmospheric 1988 Japanese film Summer Vacation 1999, which until reading the prior linked post i did not know was inspired by seminal shoujo manga Heart of Thomas.

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