The island appears on the skyline

No, I can't say I knew this day would come, in that I couldn't be sure that the acoustic guitar part for "Faraway Island" would turn out as well as it did!  I'm particularly impressed with the guitarist's attention to detail in the dynamics, which as a bonus means I should be able to get away with using little volume-envelope trickery (maybe even none at all?) in the mixing of this part.

Speaking of, I noticed during the session that a few synthesizer tones were more penetrating than I thought, so I mixed those parts a bit quieter while I was at it.

In the coda, I'm particularly struck by how the bright, clean sound of the steel-string acoustic guitar means that the switch to the Phrygian mode here doesn't (to me, anyway) have the sinister connotations this scale often does.  Instead it's more of a sudden rush of exotic warmth, contrasting the contemplative mood of the rest of the piece.  At the same time, the fact that it's the same instrument means that it doesn't sound out of place as a conclusion.

Anyway, as with the drums in "Days to Midnight" I felt that this was the part that unlocked the emotions in this song.  I was actually moved to tears, at one point, while mixing the guitar in - and that's with the "vocal" still being a placeholder MIDI flute.  It's very telling that, even as of the 2020s, MIDI instruments are still (at best) a mixed bag.