Ben's Songs

Many, many video games feature an underground ocean: Aquaria, Song of the Deep, and of course Sunless Sea — but while this song is entitled "Sunless Sea", and is intended as an homage to all of gaming's underground oceans, it's not based on that game at all, but on NES classic Blaster Master, which features such an environment as one of its many levels. All of the music from Blaster Master is great, and I've always especially loved the music from the ocean level, and have long planned to put lyrics to it.

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A song proposing a mission of exploration, set on a water planet with many islands.

The hidden, strangely recursive mythology behind the Festival of Sandcastles

lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

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A selkie song with a happy ending, if that's allowed — inspired by Talis Kimberley's "Still Catch the Tide".