Jupiter Moon

Written and Recorded in 1992

The audio track of this video consists of a couple of different demos I made in similar time in 1992. Both had the synthesizer part played mechanically through the digital sequencer but had different themes; the earlier take had the lyrics on Jupiter and its metaphoric aspect in a certain mysticism, whilst the later take had the lyrics on the Moon and its metaphoric aspect in relation with women's periodical elements. I discerned and concluded that both lyrics had some issues for general public's casual listening and duly decided to remove from the final mix for the video.
In the musical aspect, 99% of this tune simply owes to one of the best-known songs by The Steve Miller Band; Joker.

A New Way

Written and Recorded in 1987

An instrumental piece I wrote for jamming with my band called Flowers in autumn 1987. In those days, I was into the music of Jimi Hendrix, especially in his later years' works, and I hope this piece could reflect such source of influence. Personally, Jamming this tune was more about practicing the soloing on the guitar for me, as a result, I admit this take contains too long such soloing and improvising with a narrow extent of creativity. Unfortunately, this was the sole take we recorded as a band playing A New Way.

The piece was later converted to be a part of my long composition titled Life of My Own in the following year.

Middle of the Night

Written in 1983 / Recorded in 2015

The very first song I ever wrote back in 1983, when I was 16 years old. By that time, all the guitar chord I knew was A, E, D and D minor and all of them was used for this simple stuff. Musically, I can sense the direct influence of Have You Seen the Rain by the Creedence Clearwater Revival. As for the lyrics, I picked up some words from John Lennon's Oh Yoko to sing along but they never settled.
The writing of this tune was too early to be properly demo recorded so that I made the first such recording in 1989. For making this video, I decided to make a new version from scratch and the initial process - the rhythm guitar part - was filmed for the resulted work.

Unfinished, Deliberately...

Written in 1991 / Recorded in 1991 and 2015

This was more about a tryout of a recording method I came across in a Syd Barrett album, Madcap Laughs, in which, every recording process began with capturing Syd's rhythm guitar and vocal parts, then all other accompaniments - including even the drums - were later overdubbed. I even tried to reconstruct the atmosphere of the album by featuring unnecessary guitar noise in the intro and a fake correspondence with the recording engineer in the end. I tried to play the rhythm guitar occasionally out of the rhythm in order to make accompaniment parts harder to play, deliberately.

For making the video, I tried to remove my voice part and replace it with the newly added lead guitar part. However, since the microphone used for capturing the original rhythm guitar part also captured my voice part, I could not perfectly remove it from the final mix. In addition, due to a mechanical problem occurred during the video making, I had to struggle to make the new guitar part synchronise with all the rest. In this sense, the song is yet in its unfinished stage whether or not it is deliberately...

Me & My Cat

Written in 1989 / Recorded in 1990

This was initially written for an unfinished conceptual work that had nothing to do with any cat in summer 1989. Around a half year later, I decided to pick up some well-written tunes from the failed work and convert them into individual, no-concept-binding compositions. In this way, this tune was newly associated with my personal love and adoration towards cats in general - though the strange lyrics have been removed from the final mix for the video.
The arrangement that features the flute part was largely inspired by one of my favourite Al Kooper songs called  Peacock Lady.

Pass

Written in 1989 / Recorded in 1989 and 2015

A catchy Rock'N'Pop tune I wrote in 1989. Except for the guitar solo, taken from its initial demo and embedded in the middle, I remade the demo recording of the entire tune. The original idea was a song about a light of love, who comes and goes like passing notes but in the new recording, I removed such meaningless lyrics and simplified the title in this way. If I could have an opportunity one day, this is one of my past materials I would like to play the most.

Feeling

Written and Recorded in 1988

This instrumental piece was directly influenced by a composition written by Lee Ritenour that I watched on TV. The programme featured a recorded live show edited into about 60 minutes or so and one of the tunes caught my attention. Unfortunately, I don't recall the title of the track but I am sure that most elements I put into this tune are largely stolen from that piece by Ritenour.
It coincided with a period when I began to be influenced by different kinds of music, especially people around me who were into so-called 'Latin Music', therefore, it was a natural tendency for me to try something like this, at least for once. It also marked my potential beginning for becoming a multi-instrumentalist - on top of the guitars, here I played solos on the bass guitar and the keyboard as well.