Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Aggression from Mars

Written in c. 1991 and 2013 / Recorded in 2013
 
In between 1985 and 2001, I made countless amount of recording materials from my own musical activities. As far as my original contents concern, I tried to organise them as well as possible, especially in early years, but there are some exceptions in any human conducts. While I was working at converting these original materials, mostly recorded on cassette tapes, to digital mp3 files, I came across with a very rough sketch recording of this tune. It was found in a tape that contains other materials from 1990 and some other pieces from 1992, but there was no mention of this unknown tune on its hand-written label. The tune was played by a synthesizer with no accompaniment, contained many mistakes and its loose rhythm keeping was quite horrible. I could not remember on what kind of occasion I have recorded this thing but I could acknowledge certain elements particular to my own composing style back in the days. On top of that, actually I thought it would sound quite cool if only the tune was played in a proper way, therefore, I decided to make a new demo recording to make sure how it would sound like. 

In this new recording, conducted on May, 2013, original synthesizer part was converted to the piano sound and its recording scene was captured to be shown in the video. I also added a guitar part that was newly written for this occasion. For I felt something similar to Gustav Holst’s Mars, the Bringer of War, when I listened to the original sketch demo since its discovery, I put a title referring to the planet onto this untitled/unknown tune from the past.

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