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

Written in 1991 and 1993 / Recorded in 1993 and 1995

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.

As I have already explained in the annotation entry for Overture to Part One, I divided the entire work in three parts and decided to write an overture per each part. Each of them was supposed to consist of musical motifs assigned to each respective part and everything went quite well in this Overture to Part Two.

Following a suit of the counterpart for Part One, I chose to write this for a couple of guitars and bass guitar only, so that it could be easily converted for my band called Culotte to play. However, unlike its counterpart, this overture was played by Culotte for only a handful of times, none of them was played well, before the band broke up effectively by mid 1995. Therefore, I chose the original demo version for the audio track of this video, except for the very ending, where I had added an extra feature for the guitar in a studio recording done as Culotte. As for the picture, I tried to synchronise live footage of Culotte, playing the same stuff to the audio.

Additionally, also unlike its counterpart, this track is meant to contribute as genuinely musical function. Therefore, this only signifies the opening of Part Two with no reference to the story line.