Anthem of the Sovereign Governor (from 'Music for a Story-Telling')

Written in 1991 and 1993 / Recorded in 1994

Basically, as far as the music concerns, my conceptual work titled Music for a Story-Telling is a collection of re-workings of my past compositions written in 1991; either works I wrote for a band that couldn't exist long enough to perform it, and works for a students’ theatrical project that failed to feature the whole works I wrote for it at its actual performance. This tune consists of a couple of re-workings from both occasions. The verse part, which is assigned to General Staff Imayya, is taken from the latter, whilst the chorus part, which is assigned to the Sovereign Governor, is from the former. Since both parts were originally written for different purposes - especially the former was written as the piano intro - I reckon the conversion of these parts into arrangement like this didn't go effectively. There were a couple of sources of inspiration for the arrangement; a song written by the director of the said students' theatrical project, in which I played the lead guitar during the performance, and the Grunge movement that flourished when the demo version of this tune was made in 1993.

In the story of the conceptual work, this tune has a role to conclude the Part One, which is mainly dedicated to presnet the framework of a fictional state governed by the Sovereign Governor, where the story is set. This partidular tune is designed to depict the stability and glory of the dictatorship, after some incidents took place, which are already described in the preceding tunes.