Remember Me (Part One)

Written in 1991 and 1993 / Recorded in 1994

Remember Me was originally a song I wrote for piano and voices as the closing track of the soundtrack version of Zone, a students' theatrical project, in the end of 1991. This original recording was technically accompanied by roughly recorded improvisation music played by my fellow students that featured a bass player providing a repetition of mere two notes – G and D – and the acoustic guitar flowing upon it freely. When I thought about remaking my original part of the tune, I simply guessed it would be interesting to rewrite the accompaniment section as well. When the demo recording of the renewal version was made, it was designed to have all the guitar parts to fade out while playing the melody line, as you can hear at the ending of this video, the bass part was to be left continuing to provide the two chords, upon which the piano piece can be later added.

When I brought this demo version to my band called Culotte for recording purpose, the drummer continued to play even after I recognised that enough length of material has been already recorded. So I joined to play the guitar as the jam spontaneously went on, as usual with these guys, and it resulted in to leave an interesting jam piece captured in good audio quality. Playing back the recorded material made me decide to divide the whole thing in two parts and the piano piece in question was assigned to the Part Two. In addition, the guitar into for this Part One is obviously quoted from MC5’s Kick Out the Jams.