I restarted a game of Resident Evil 1 out of nostalgia for the first games in this license, which are more horror/enigma and atmosphere. And on this last point, the music in the safe rooms is still a monumental pleasure.
And personally, when people talk to me about RE1's save rooms, the first that comes to mind is the East storeroom, which maybe explains my impression of this music: Many people take it as the soothing music that tells you you're safe, but there's still something worrying in that mansion, that you need to go back. And frankly, that's exactly right.
But in my case, this music is a real mood. For me, it gives off the impression of a "peaceful" mansion, in a rather melancholy sense, as if it were a mansion from another time, abandoned but still alive and somehow still intact in its beauty. This is reinforced by the fact that many of the game's rooms are very clean and even beautiful, despite the presence of the worst abominations. What's more, this mansion is, at least in its first part, functional as a house to live in. We pass through offices, bedrooms, bathrooms, gardens… People have lived here, are no longer here, but their presence is still there.
With the music itself, there is these long "wails" in the back but also this guitar, that seems to pass slowly from one string to another, as someone was slowly playing while singing about this manor, that I didn't see as an horrific element but once again just an expression of melancholy.
We could say there is part of sadness in this song this way, but I see it as appeasment and calm, a moment of relaxation. You're not a super soldier who have a break before returning fight horror, you're a visitor of an old manor that have it's story, and you're in a little private corner, where you can feel at ease. The owner would surely be okay you rest.
And this storeroom add something more : It's small and, well, literally a storeroom, yet it have it's own charm. And I think if have this impression it's because of two things. First it's the purity of the place. Instead of the wealthy decoration of some rooms and/or the grotesque, the blood and gore, this one is a small piece in white, with a lot of items and everything you need. And the second thing that also reinforce the first, that's the presence of the lamp which casts shadows on the walls.
And the line "The warm light makes you relax" when you interact with it... does i really need to explain why it feed this impression of melancholy and appeasment ?
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