The Cosmic Eye

Written in 1991 and 1993 / Recorded in 1994 - Part One

This tune was first written in spring 1991, soon after I have finished my life as a student. The initial idea was to write a song that could accommodate a kind of pessimistic feeling I had had on a rainy night but the composition soon overgrew the initial idea during the recording process and it ended up as kinda quasi Prog stuff. Overall, it was OK as a personal demo recording, but I could not satisfy with it because of a technical mistake I have made during the recording and the lack of coherence due to the over-expansion of the initial motif. In those days, I rather accused of the change occurred to my social status that made me work at a full-time position, which inevitably reduced the time I could focus on making music.

A few years later, I tried to re-write the tune and made a basic demo for Culotte, a band I was playing with at that time. In this revised version, I focused on establishing a better coherence throughout the entire composition and in order to do this, the pessimistic song part that initiated the composition in the first place was totally removed. which was replaced by some newly added variations of pre-existing themes.

Written in 1991 and 1993 / Recorded in 1991 and 1994 - Part Two

The video above features the second half of the composition which mainly consists of  my personal overindulgence on soloing by various instruments and mixing of them. Both my initial demo version and Culotte's studio version failed to provide a perfect performance so that I had to mix their best bits for making this video.

The title of this tune was conceived during the expansion of the ideas that took place in the initial demo recording. There must have been some certain philosophical sources that inspired me at that time, but now I can't recall what they were.