Whip Cream

Written in 1987 and 1989 / Recorded in 1989

Rough sketch of this tune was initially recorded sometime in 1987. I picked up the idea in a couple of years later and made a subtle change in the ascending chord progression for recording this. In the original scheme, this tune was provisionally called ‘something like Cream’ and there would be no point in annotating the inspiration for writing this tune. If a term ‘Absolute Music’ can be extended a bit, the title Whip Cream would fully explain the essence of this piece of music.

When the initial sketch recording was done, I was playing in a band called The Blues Association and I was quite eager for playing blues based stuff. Unfortunately, the band was led by another guitarist, who had little understanding of musical taste like this, so that I had to bear with playing some boring stuff he chose for us for a while. Though I could form a suitable band to play a tune like this in the following year, by that time I had have developed my interest beyond blues-based style – I was rather shifting for Jazz orientation – and again, an opportunity to play this tune didn’t happen for that band as well.

By the time I finally picked up this tune to be demo recorded, I have changed my direction from heading for Jazz to Progressive Rock once again and that made me play the guitar a bit uncomfortable here. Even though it would have been quite rougher, I reckon that I could have played the guitar part better in 1987, as far as playing in a manner suitable to this style of music concerns.