Undine

Written in 1990 / Recorded in 1990 and 1991

This tune was first performed in October 1990, accompanied by my solo organ with lyrics to be sung by myself. It was shortly after the song was written but I do not remember which came first, I mean, I cannot recall if I wrote the song for the performance or the song was merely a handy new material when I heard about the occasion to play some solo act. Despite the tune itself was rather orientated to Hard / Blues Rock or even a bit Psychedelic, what the lyrics delivered was a fairy tale. Since the fairy was related to water, I called this thing Undine.

In those days, I had a small number of fans based on students’ musician union and this became one of the popular songs among them, largely because of the fairy story, and I played it live for a few times within a short period of time up to January 1991, either as a solo act and accompanied by a provisional band. 

The audio track I made for this video consists of following three materials: (1) instrumental remix from the original personal demo from October 1990, (2) live performance with a provisional band from December 1990, and (3) a studio rehearsal take with another band took place sometime in the spring of 1991. To be honest with you, the discovery of the last material encouraged me to make this video because my singing voice was almost inaudible entirely in this studio take whilst it captured the rough aspect of the tune, especially when it was played by a guitar band like this.

The patchwork-like editing was done for enhancing this aspect of the tune.