Elden Ring - Song of Home (Remix of Nomadic Merchant) 

You can get this track on Bandcamp for free or PWYW: alexroe.bandcamp.com/track/song-of-home Like my other remix 'Song of Despair' the original was not released on the Elden Ring soundtrack in the US, so I cannot get this on streaming platforms like Spotify, nothing I can do about it even though I'd love to. Sorry, and thanks for listening! Oh yeah! I actually wrote this whole thing on stream because...well I felt like it! I might stream more in the near future if anyone wants to join, give me a follow! www.twitch.tv/roetaka

I invite you all to imagine. Imagine a merchant, sheltered inside a crumbling chapel, sitting by the fire. He picks up his instrument and begins to play, and soon, a song filled with sorrow and longing gets carried by the wind. Atop the peaks of Mt. Gelmir, the song reaches the ears of another merchant, who joins into the play. And so does another merchant amidst the lakes of Liurnia. And another in the rotten plains of Caelid. For but a single night, the Lands Bewteen is blessed with an enchanting orchestra. For but a single night, the nomadic merchants do not feel so alone. For but a single night, they remember what it is to feel home.

It makes you wonder what the days of the Grand Caravan was like, like if there were times when merchants from across the Lands Between shared a song around warm kindling.

"They think that we worship the three fingers, that WE called the maddening sickness down upon them. Well if that's what they expect from us, THEN THATS WHAT THEY SHALL GET FROM US!" - Kalé

I can feel the pain in this merchants legs. imagine the horrors he has seen, traveling these lands, far and wide. and still, despite everything, he remains, a humble merchant for weary travelers, such as yourself. great rendition. was fun watching you make this.

I honestly wasn’t expecting a full orchestral rendition! For a song you only ever hear the first few notes of from the merchant, you’ve added so many emotions to it while still keeping the feeling and sound of the original! Serious talent!

"Ah, tarnished...I didn't hear your approach. What can I do for you?" >About the song "The music I was playing? It's a song that's been in our people for generations. Taught to us in our dreams by St. Trina supposedly. Do you like it?" >Yes no "haha, yes, quite comforting isn't it? Well you're welcome to rest here any time you like. My fire is always open to you."

This was one of my favorite pieces of music in the game. Thanks for making this

i remember that one song did by a merchant in the catacomb when you do the (frenzy questline) which is i think the most saddest note i ever hear in any game and any film, - no pain nor pleasure. - no joy nor sadness. - no death nor birth. the frenzy flame will melt and consume everything... end of the quest.

I love the way you're adding to these already amazing works of music. It feels like you listened to the story the music was telling you, and giving your own interpretation of that story and responding to it with your own sound. Making this beautiful conversation between the original composer and yourself.

Sad as it would be this'd fit a Kale boss fight if he forced you into it. Would never want to hurt the guy. But imagine this. His niche weapon would be a bag of holding. He start wiping shit out at you. Piano? Boulder? Horse and buggy? Hell a dragon would shock the living shit out of everyone. He's not much a fighter, but he'll give you a fight worth remembering. He is a merchant after all.

It's amazing how this song sounds so hopeful and so nostalgic, so sad and so cozy, so grand and yet so personal, all at the same time.

The boss theme for Kalé, Purveyor of Fine Goods

My fave merchant. Thank you for this

Beautiful work, I always used to sit beside the merchant and just enjoy the moment

I hope once the DLC drops that we will get more of the merchants story

This gave me goosebumps.

Sounds a lot like it could be from Westworld, love it

This is repetitious AF, but man did it low key break me. Prior to finding this gorgeous remix, I had created an anime chr due to personal reasons and in learning to play a particular piece of music that associates with said chr, I am currently going through and emotional state at present, so this video greatly attributed to this. The vibe I get from this is that it is beautiful, sorrowful and mournful. It speaks to the heart and to this very day, is the first souls/souls-like game music to ever illicit these emotions in me. To add to this, I am glad to have found this merchent in game, guess I am lucky to have found this much later. The most beautiful song I have heard, also within the aforementioned above and I thank you for this posting as I am currently doing some Rune farming at me next boss, while I am inturn learning it for meself. Thx again, props to the person who made the remix, but also the people involved in the actual soundtrack of Elden Ring. This game changes everything!

Your work never fails to impress me, sounds fantastic.

masterpiece

I will never forget the moment that I unlocked the tomb of the Traveler Merchant race and found them all trapped there with a few still playing this song with the slight bit of sanity they had left 😮‍💨

This is really a true piece of art again. I love this emotional note to it. Great work, thank you! ❤

Absolutely masterpiece! Great work

Elden Ring has such a special feel to it, it's the only time in a game that I've just sat down, closed my eyes, and listened to something like this, so much emotion in the original composition and this especially. Thanks for these, they're amazing.

this is going in the Frostpunk playlist

Keep it up you do more than you know for a lot of us

Thank you so much Alex!

damn this was a surprise, but a welcome one. also adding gwyns theme in there somewhere would be awesome as hell, maybe in the future.

Brilliant!

The only thing I want... Is find a place to call Home...

this makes me cry

absolutely beautiful

this sounds so silky smooth, the mixing is awesome! mind if I ask which music libraries you used to write this track?

you made my day thnx man 💜

Such a sad song

Damn, why am I crying?.... This isn't beautiful.... It feels heavy, painful, agonizing, and despair...🥲💙

very cool, do u like the music of divinity original sin 2 ?

Also I've accidentally killed a merchant (aggroed him while trying to fight off the wolves at Raya Lucaria) while having youtube playing in the background. Once he said "...how could you? What did I do to deserve it?" This has started to play and it hit my soul hard as a truck.

When I heard this song, I immediately thought of Gehrman from Bloodborn. The violin ay is so similar

amazing work

It is amazing

Gehrman??

When you realize Alex Roe and Shabriri haven't been seen in a room together

💖

First bar be like: "somebody come get her, she acting like a stripper"

hmm, now i am nowhere near a music guy and english is not my native, so bear with me: I get the feel that this is too ... rigid/ orderly? Like the sounds/notes starting and stopping too abruptly compared to the original/ fromsoft's style? (or some underlying melo/ instrument missing; instruments a bit off?) Like the original being more fluid, especially with the strings? Regardless that all together makes it seem less melancholic and less panning/ sweeping/ stirring? which was the key selling point of the merchant theme for me. ed. might be me listening too much to the arcane bard one.

0:33 beautiful 🥺 (´༎ຶ ͜ʖ ༎ຶ `)♡

I love you

Any plans to release on Spotify ?

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Wonderful.

When you realize Shabriri basically spread so much defamation about the Nomadic Merchants that Queen Marika herself ordered their persecution and imprisoned them in Leyndell Sewers, without trial but with full-on prejudice. Because Shabriri knew they would be desperate and offered them help - in form of Frenzied Flame.

THE SECTION THAT STARTS AT 2:30 IS ETHEREAL. THANK YOU SO MUCH ALEX, FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. I've been following you ever since your Abyss Watchers remix and what a ride has that been. Incredible. Simply transcending.

Beautiful as always. “Brave Tarnished... Thy strength befits a crown.”

Came back to this vid after the DLC announcement. Because the art for the DLC show Miquella on it, and that reminded me that the lore states Miquella visited the Merchants in their dreams, as St. Trina, and sung this song to comfort them which is where they got it from. So if we end up having to fight Miquella/St. Trina for whatever reason in the DLC I really hope some rendition of this will be the boss music. That would just be so perfect!

At first I was all for restoring the golden order. Then I saw what they did to the merchants and swore off it. Almost went to the three fingers. Finally, I learned the truth. Everyone was tricked by shabriri. The golden order was tricked to shun the merchants. Vyke was tricked to ruin himself. Golden order far from perfect but definitely better than the three fingers. P.S - This piece is phenomenal by the way. It feels like the original song would have been this way. The merchants are singing their version with the instruments they have in hand.

Inspired by Gherman, you remember that friendly old man? Who wanted to make sure we find the cure and leave that horrible nightmare and himself behind… I think there is something about being identified as a villain. There are people in our world who may not be villains because they are truly villains, some are just as innocent as us, but since the world wants to make them villains, they became villains.

I always wanted more from this tune, when I first heard it ingame it felt full of potential. I think you delivered quite nicely! This ones getting swiped from bandcamp, please and thank you.

Oh man I’ve never been this early to an Alex Roe upload. Absolutely beautiful just like everything else! I really like that it maintains this sort of sense of simplicity even with the layering of all the instruments. It makes it feel like a longing for something that once was.

The first merchant that was playing a song I found was in lingrave, as I approached the merchant I recognised the song, it belongs to German and Lady Maria, such a good theme that can’t be parried.

Tonight, the orchestra joins the hunt

I just found this for the first time, and clicked it by mistake. IT WOULD'VE BEEN A MISTAKE TO NOT LISTEN. I turned my speakers up, and let this song play loudly. This is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing all of this with us. I'm listening to it multiple times now.

Because this track is CLEARLY a reference to Bloodborne, I love how the orchestral remake sounds very similar to Gherman’s theme.

may chaos take the world MAY CHAOS. TAKE. THE WORLD.

This song makes me sad after visiting the merchant graveyard.

I already knew about the song before I actually heard it in game for myself. When I finally found a merchant who was playing it I just stood there listening to it for a while. The first bit definitely sounds like Gehrman's theme, but the second half is, of course, quite different. It sounds enough like it that I always have my character sit down and listen to it for a while. I love this remix of it.

VIsions of Home.... But loneliness.

"May chaos take the world"

It kinda reminds me of gehrmans boss theme from bloodborne.

Liked at the initial 3 seconds which brought feels.. and the rest which moved us eternally..

These poor fucking merchants...the albinaurics. I became Elden Lord, so they could have justice.

Just absolutely gorgeous. You deserve way more views.

Man, that sounds really cool ☺

May Chaos...take the world

amazing work as always Alex ☀

The First Time i see kalè and the others merchants i said "hah funny dudes...i like it" But when i get in the three fingers tomb I see the horror and the pain of that poor bastards they get punished for something they not did And i think it's criminal the kalè quest git cancelled

You should do the page’s flute song in leyndell

Have no home, but not homeless. We travel place to places, far and farther, to look for a place to call "Home". This is how they live, the custom of the merchant by no choice. edit: by the way i will do my best to add some "Poetry" to your songs that make me feel

May chaos take the world

Home is where the hearth is, where the flames of found family resides.

main theme of minecraft modpack ez.

*Gerhman joins the hunt!*

awesome, maybe that's what the great caravan sounded like

''I see it in your eyes, I understand, May caos take the World'' Kale.

another fantastic remix from our talented Mr. Roe

😊Eu : Mãe tem café? 😮 Mãe: têm não! ...: Pois vou criar um universo repleto de dor e sofrimento, este mundo que estou prestes a criar, será um espelho distorcido de tudo que ja vivi, de cada cicatriz que carrego na alma vou dar vida a um universo onde a felicidade não passa de uma lembrança distante uma sombra fugas que nunca se materializa neste universo as pessoas que me fizeram mal estarão em um ciclo interminável...

I found this song after I had to put down the first cat I raised from a kitten. This song to me is like me crying out in anguish over what I have lost. I wonder if the merchants think the same?

I feel like portions of the titanic violin crew part could fit so well into this

Alex Roe you mad genius! You made my eyes tear up 🥲 Wonderfully made good sir!

Good song but completely butchering the vibe of the original. It’s like mishmash of different instruments and choirs put together. The original is so much more emotional.

"SOMEBODY COME GET HERRRR" - Nomadic Merchant

I NEED A TRAP REMIX OF THIS I WOULD FUCKEN LOSE IT

does he play his little string instrument with a back scratcher?

It sounds so beautiful and so sad at the same time... so dramatic, amazing work.

I have no words. Magnificent work ✨

Love it!

Bioudiful

100th!!! 🎉 Phenomenal work. Thank you! 😊