Faretheewell

Written in 1991 / Recorded in 1991 and 2012

One early morning in February or March, 1991, I watched a Hollywood gangster film aired on telly. It was rather a coincidence resulted from flickering the channels after midnight and now I can't recall neither the title of the film nor its story line. All I remember is that it was set in the 1930s and the theme music of the film was not only suitable for the setting but was somewhat impressive for me. Within a few days from watching the film, I began to write this tune based upon the impression I have absorbed from the theme music of the film, though I couldn't remember it exactly by that time, and despite being surrounded by busy and uncertain circumstances, I managed to complete demo recording of the tune by the end of March. The initial idea for simply mocking the film theme soon developed to a next level for accommodating several variations stemmed from components I wrote for the tune and bridging pieces in the middle, where I tried to express my adoring for Hollywood film music and the Bolero piece furnished with the chord-progression belongs to the field of Pop music or Prog Rock.
I don't think the piano piece in the intro sounds like Contemporary Music - it was rather more about experiment - but a couple of pieces written for piano and organ are well written. I also like the brief piano solo piece in the second half, obviously inspired by Love Street by The Doors, and the guitar solo presented with double tracking of the classical guitar.

For making this video, I newly added the lead guitar part in the Bolero sequence in order to replace the original guitar part that was recorded with unnecessary voice parts, mixed together in the same track. You can see the new stuff being filmed and inserted in the video as well.