Impressions of a Day: 6th Movement (Part 1)

written in 1985, 1989 and 1990 / recorded in 1990

In the video version, 6th Movement is divided into two parts. However, the original demo recording was consistently written under a principle that each Movement basically accommodates three deferent ingredients, and the same principle is applied to this 6th Movement as well. The reason why I divided this Movement into two video parts is, on one hand, I thought the total running time of the whole work is too long to be featured in a single video and, on the other hand, I wanted to expose the intro section of the part two video in the most effective way. Anyway, in the original scheme, the following three ingredients were assigned to the 6th Movement: i) drinking in a pub, ii) a girl and iii) new morning. Among them, the video version of Part One covers the first two ingredients, ‘drinking in a pub’ and ‘a girl’.

The first ingredient titled ‘drinking in a pub’ is merely a continued section from the closing of the previous Movement, with the additional chord progression that forms the main body of this section. This added chord progression was originally written as an independent tune that was supposed to be a Punk Rock song a few years ago. Although in the original scheme, as I have mentioned above, the beginning of the 6th Movement is assigned to express the impressions associated with drinking in a venue like pubs, the video version shows the image of stairways for the way out of a venue at the end of the previous Movement. Therefore, in the video version, I put some images associated with impressions of wandering out on the street at night. I guess this change of story could give the composition a wider room for general consensus rather than sticking to its original scheme inspired by real incidents I experienced at the end of 1989.

By the way, people around me often suggest that this section, especially its intro, reminds them of Christmas music. To which, I would prefer to say that basically, this tune has nothing to do with Christmas but the incidents I mentioned above actually took place a week before Christmas of that year and, coincidently, the demo recording of this section also took place in early December in the following year.

The second ingredient titled ‘a girl’ starts from 1:58, which is a quiet section played by a couple of acoustic guitars. ‘A girl’ was actually involved in the incidents of the night that inspired me writing this composition but the important thing was not what I did but how I felt, as far as this composition concerns. This section is about a confused effort that would go in vain, desperately trying to look for a girl already disappeared into a city at night, regretting his own behaviour less than half an hour ago, where he tried to play it cool and calmly let her go. His clouded confused mind will receive a blow of synthesizer fanfare, which will take him further up into the depth of the night.