I like the overall texture.
Normally, with sad music, I either see an anhilated battle field, or a flashback sequence of a tragic character. This one has a slight flair to it that has several possible stories. Inlcuding being mere background music for a deserted village, it has several possibilities.
Like I said, I'm not getting a mantage out of this one, but a theme of sorts. It seems to describe someone or someplace... Ah, there it is.
Now, I've gone and found a story. An ancient and technologically advanced civilization has, instead of collapsing, grown to enclose the entire world and part of the solar system. But, with its growth, this civilazation has become oppressive and its ideals have warped to no more than a dim utopia. Eventually, internal strife and deprivation of culture has caused it to come close to collapsing in the present. There is no small rebel force, just general discontent. I'm seeing a kind of dark distopian utopia, where the basic needs of the upper class are met, and the lower classes are reduced to just taking care of the machinations that feed the fat cats. There is no end in sight to this broken system.
My thoughts were a little redundant, and I swear I contradicted myself more than once, but there it is. You were right to reccomend this one, I could make up several stories to go along with it, only thing is they'd all be tragic.
That said, I can clearly make out the voice instrument, that version of it detracts a tad but not much. It's like the river bed rock in an arrow head collection: hard to tell, but there's something a little off.
"Music is just another form of art. And there's a little something they say about art, you know. Art is never finished, it is abandoned."