Cruel Blue Sky

Written in 1993 / Recorded in 1994 and 2014

I quitted an office job at the end of summer, 1993 and wrote this tune a few weeks later. This tune was more about delivering of my words that expressed my mixed feeling of anxiety and optimism for the future, ornamented by a series of fine autumn days with ironically clear blue sky – to which, I rather felt it cruel to embrace. This kind of Narcissistic sentiment is what I hate the most today and in making of this video, the voice parts were duly removed.

When we gathered, as the band Culotte, in a studio to record the basic track of this tune, I still remember that unlike any other occasions, it was me who made almost all of mistakes that halted the band to play on and restart from the intro all over again. I knew by then that I am not good at playing the rhythm guitar part consists of plain chords like this, though I like the atmosphere of such things that reminds me of some Kevin Ayers songs.

For making this video, I simply played the lead guitar part with a bit of improvising, topping on to the backing track we made as Culotte, a couple of decades ago…