The Patrol (from 'Music for a Story-Telling')

Written in 1991 and 1993 / Recorded in 1993 and 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/or works for a students’ theatrical project called Zone. This tune is based on a short theme for piano originally written for the latter occasion.

The original piano piece was the intro for a tune called Baby, I Love You, which was performed in Zone featuring myself on vocal. While the entire tune was converted to Music for a Story-Telling as a part of Operetta: The Grand Meeting, I wrote this variation developed from the intro piece to introduce a character called Imayya, the General Stuff, who are to be featured in both tunes. In the story line, this tune is all about establishing the character as a passionate and committed General, who accidentally discovers Kelp, the intruder, during his routine patrol and straightforwardly orders his ranks and files to arrest him. For Imayya, anything unusual for his task of maintaining the order has no room to be considered as anything else but intolerable evil, because it means 'disorder'.

In making this video, I tried to combine my personal demo recording and a studio recording done with my band called Culotte.