With Yow absent, we had a special recreational time of playing without woodwinds. We enjoyed The-Beatles numbers and folk songs.

Imagine: Chel wrote up its chord progression on a blackboard. Ballade. Chel sang to our playing. Incredible compelling song. Instrumental was also wonderful with Chel's guitar singing freely to piano accompaniment with Hil's  side guitar.

And I Love Her: Instrumental. Asa's Bass sounds are great, coming directly into my heart to shake. Chord progression is impressive.

I offered some songs to the rest.  "Jidai" of Miyuki Nakajima was okayed for vocal number outside dance numbers. According to Chel and Hil, once upon a time, just before we new members joined the band, they tried to challenge this song. A vocalist of that time tried this song, struggling with its triplets. Then it was sealed off. The-Beatles' song "Imagine" was also one of them. In Chel's words, there were many songs once challenged and sealed off, and now some of them are possibly coming up to  be unsealed to revive.

The Compact is really mysterious and interesting, which seems to have been fermented consecutively long since 1996.