Guitar Instrumental in A, written in 1987 / 1988, recorded in 2013
‘Guitar Instrumental in A’ consisted of a
couple of primitive recordings I made in 1987 and 1988. Before I bought a
multi-track recorder in the summer of 1988, all I could do was to record musical ideas popped out in my mind by usual cassette recorder. In those days,
I didn’t have any ideology nor thought over writing a composition but I was
just a genuine guitar freak.
Most part of this composition was
written and recorded in its first sketch recording that took place sometime in
1987. Unlike other sketch recordings I made in those days, I tried to record this particular one in full length as an individual tune, regardless to disadvantages of live
recording to do so. I still remember soon after I finished the initial sketch
recording, I went out to shop something to eat after midnight being satisfied
with what I have done.
When a new section seemingly fits to the
tune emerged in the following year, I just made a sketch recording of the
specific section that ends where it connected to the beginning section of the main
theme. Since then, this tune had been abandoned and forgotten utterly untouched
for decades.
Recently, I discovered these sketch
recordings and listening to them encouraged me to re-record the entire work
including the latter section. In this new attempt, I didn’t make any audio
recording but only focused on shooting a video, comprise of various sections
being shot separately. As I mentioned in the video’s description section, the
main theme of this tune is inspired by Black Muddy River, a song by The
Grateful Dead. I think the first bridging section 0:50-1:26 could be improved
more suitable for a solo guitar work. The second bridging section 2:09-2:45 is
the additional one wrote in 1988.
As the title of this tune clearly shows,
this is absolute music. Therefore, there’s nothing else to talk about this
tune, which has no ideological background at all.
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