Miller & Katsumi - Ocean

Katsumi wrote "Ocean" in 1999 when he was looking for musical styles to create some dream-sequence-like psychological states for his original acoustic songs, which would allow the listeners to experience "spacey" feelings and conceive their personal visual images when they listen to his music. He already used this approach of songwriting style when he previously wrote some of his songs such as "Dreams in Dreams in Dreams in...." and "Silence of Souls."

One day, when he was casually listening to his favorite classical piece, Erik Satie's "Gnossienne #4" he realized this piece' Arpeggio piano background really gave the visual impression of "waves in the sea." So he grabbed his guitar, trying to imitate its piano line, but while he was learning this line, he started to extend his creative mind and made it into his own song's guitar riff with constant chord changes initiated by the E7th-suspended-4th with "wavy" fast Arpeggio to write an instrumental music piece that sounds like the "ocean."

Katsumi later added a cryptic lyric to this instrumental piece, representing the "mysteriousness" of the ocean; he thinks the word, "Ocean" has a universally-common-image of esotericism, which causes neither unsureness nor fear but attracts people in all cultures with sensuous aestheticism.

This Miller & Katsumi version of "Ocean" is without doubt Katsumi's favorite. He thinks especially Laurence Miller's "genius" e-Bow guitar arrangement worked quite effectively for this weird but beautiful song.

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• Katsumi
• Laurence
• Miller
• Tim
• Nagae
• 長柄克己

[Miography]

I love the way this piece has no standard traditional form, yet moves as natural and as graceful as anything on the planet. Who needs a verse, chorus, and bridge? This is real music.

[LaurenceBondMiller]

A triumphant work of art