This is a composition created from superimposing many ostinato patterns, rhythm patterns, and phrases in 9/8, 8/8, 7/8, 6/8, 5/4, 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, and playing a violin and glissando slide guitar over it. The combination of sequences goes back to the beginning after 2 minutes. I then wrote a text inspired by the 19th-century German writer, Kleist, and recited it. The whole composition was created in the studio in one 27 hour session. The engineer collapsed during the session and the assistant engineer took over. I heard each phrase in my head and wrote it down on the spot and gave it to Jun Toyama, who programmed it for me on his sequencer. The sounds were created on a prophet 5 and a prophet 10, two very early 80s sounding keyboards. This music was used in the photographer, Kishin Shinoyama's visual work Shinorama in 1984. This led me directly to a recording contract with Midi records that year.
I like the pessimism expressed in the story and have written many stories and lyrics with similar themes. Today, it reminds me of Slavoj Zizek's interpretation of Hegel. "The French Revolution led directly to the Terror and the guillotines. The Bolshevik Revolution led to Stalinism." Unlike Marx's interpretation of history, for Hegel, nothing resolves the struggles in human conflicts. It goes on and on. Marx wrote that the proletarian revolution will be the final revolution. For Hegel, there is no final revolution because as long as human beings are the way they are, the struggles never end. But changes will occur with every new struggle. That is how we got to where we are now. In this way, Zizek sees a similarity to Hegel's views with Freud's interpretation of human psychology.
"The people united will ALWAYS be defeated (on their own)".
(But realizing the reasons behind this leads to the next chain of events.)
Ayuo Takahashi - Earthquake
He was about to hang himself.
A year previously, he was in love with a girl, whose parents had rejected him completely. She was taken away to a convent, but there they began to meet secretly at night, when one day, she discovers to her dismay that she had a child within her. This incident turns into an enormous scandal and despite her parent's pleas, the church sentences her to death, while he was taken away and thrown in prison. All hope faded away from him.
But just as he was about to fasten the noose, a huge earthquake shook the city to the ground. Now seized with an anxious desire to live, he escapes prison. After walking for hours, he finds her safe among the survivors who are now desperate to help each other. Ah, so they meet again. Instead of worrying over everyday gossip, now everyone talked about true heroism. The earthquake had suddenly seemed to awaken a soul within everyone. Now, in their struggle for life and death, they all were able to love and care. All power of life seemed to surge up within them. So life from now on will bring everyone happiness. Yes, the world seemed changed, didn't it!
Now news was around town that the church was about to hold a gathering to implore heaven to prevent such disasters. The lovers feeling secure that a new world had risen out of the ashes of old began to walk back with the other survivors. But just as they enter the church, they are immediately denounced as the sinners who brought this tragedy upon the city. Now the people with all energy of life turns into an angry mob. "So it was they who made us suffer". They are immediately surrounded and battered to death.
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