Talk:Awaking III Leaves/@comment-34069900-20181019112057/@comment-4674816-20181020035904

Yeah Dragon's Dream is another obscure one. It's hard to tell because the song itself isn't on Spotify (nor does it look to be on YouTube), but Thom Brennan does have 4,500 monthly listens - over 600 times what the Awakenings composer has.

I dunno, I find it hard to believe Araki was one of those 16 YouTube views for "Awakenings No. 3" I saw when I first checked. And it's tough to imagine Araki ever hearing the music of a flutist who doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. Like he's a talented flutist for sure, and his website seems to indicate he's a pretty good guy, but he does not seem like anyone Araki would have heard of over the radio.

(It should also be pointed out that the name doesn't fit exactly. There's the obvious change from "Awakenings" to "Awaking", and the removal of a bunch of extra words from the title like "Floating On a Slow Stream".)

I dunno, I just can't see the logic here unless Araki came up with the "3 leaves" first and desparately searched for a song that he could make match.