Written and Recorded in 1995
When the original drummer of Culotte left the band in mid-1995, I had to struggle to cope with the difficulties to carry on with ‘business as usual.’ The first few materials I newly wrote since his departure were either directly addressed to him or furnished by past materials that featured him on the drums. Bondage was one of such attempts, which features a sound-check sequence from our past live recording in its intro. Despite the given circumstance, I decided to stick to a principle that when I make any demo material for the band Culotte, I don’t use the rhythm machine in order to give the drummer enough room for his creative imagination.
Writing of this tune coincided with my mental crisis as well. The lyrics, I wrote for this tune, contained a line like following: ‘If DNA and the Akashic Records were compatible…’ Unfortunately, I can’t recall what followed the line.
After the relatively dynamic Part One, it is followed by Part Two, a typical one-chord jam by me at that time. I dared to leave my voice parts in this section because it’s not anything like singing, but a reading of something written in Latin that I have found in a fishy book in those days. Extended piece of Part Two was newly discovered from the original master tape while I was making this video.
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