Thirst for Divinity

Written and Recorded in 1994

While I was playing in a band called Culotte, especially after 1993, I stopped to feature the rhythm machine into initial demo recordings of my own work, in order to leave the drummer a room to exercise his own creativity and imagination. This enabled me to write things more efficiently because I could save time and effort for programming the machine but also contributed to undermine the quality of initial demo recordings. I took to treat these demos more private stuff only meant to be circulated within the band, not a finished work. This was the reason why I left the lead guitar part being out of tune in this recording. At that time, it was more important to move on to next work rather than bothering myself to play and record the same part once again. Now, I regard it as a wrong decision and regret it though.

I don’t remember exactly when I wrote this tune during the year but this surely marked a kind of turning point in my composing history, not in terms of music but from where inspirations and themes are to be taken. Thirst for Divinity was actually what the composer – my younger self – wanted to express through this tune. But now I can see through that what 'he' really wanted was so-called Divine Intervention.

For making this video, I removed the lyrics he wrote and sung from the audio track. In terms of singing, he (and I) has never been good at it and things he argued in the lyrics were too immature to be taken seriously but to be treated as rather a word playing. For enhancing the original intention of the composer, I also added some images of mystical stuff belonged to him.