Overture to Part One (from 'Music for a Story-Telling')

Written in 1991 and 1993 / Recorded in 1993

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/or works for a students’ theatrical project called Zone. This tune consists of ideas taken from the works I wrote for both occasions.

When I first planned to write this conceptual work, the basic story line was already there and so were the musical motifs. I had a strong wish to start off the entire work with an overture, which should be written formally, at the same time, I thought the amount of source motifs were too vast for constituting only one overture. So, I decided to divide the entire work in three parts and to write an overture per each part. As a result, this Overture to Part One consists of musical motifs taken from every individual tune included in Part One, except for a piano piece called The Brainwasher.

The idea of a conceptual work to deliver a story won a support from my band mates, especially from the drummer, and it didn't take long before we launched to record featured tracks of the work as a band Culotte. As the band was heavily influenced by The Who, I thought it would be acceptable for us to write and play something like quasi-Tommy things like this. In addition, the tune became one of our favourite repertoires and was played live in many occasions.

In the story this opening track is also designed to introduce the background information to be told. It features a Narrator in its later section but in this video version, I also inserted further written accounts in a bit funny way.