Death Song (Instrumental)

Written and Recorded in 1990

Death Song was a thing of an outburst of my anger and frustration I held at the time of writing. Before the song was recorded in any form, it was played live for filling the stage time as a solo act of me playing the guitar and singing. One of the reasons why I dared to play it at that occasion was because the anger was caused by the provisional band I had to play with on that day. What surprised me at the most was that the audience’s response was quite good towards the song, which I wrote and played in despair. 

The demo recording of the song at home soon followed and in it, I simply played it in the same manner as the prior live take and added rhythm sections for enhancing its (Hard) Rock aspect. But this did not meet my satisfaction so that I fancied to convert the key features of the song into some different style. Inspiration came from Lanky (Part One), an instrumental jam by Syd Barrett, officially released for the first time in 1988, which was yet a hot material at that time for me. I borrowed the idea of a jam consists of rough playing guitar and vibraphone-like keyboard to give a basic structure for the recording as a whole. Then, I added rhythm sections to enhance this basic structure.

Though this second attempt was yet not satisfying, I decided to make this video by cutting off some parts of the long jam section to make the whole material shorter and put it go with the footage taken from the original live performance, which captured the initial raw emotion of myself at the very beginning of this composition.