A Beautiful Concept

Written in 1992 / Recorded in 1994, 1996 and 2015

It began as a re-work of a thing called Madly, another song I wrote in 1992. The focus was not on adding but to reduce unnecessary parts from the source song and to change the lyrics for reflecting my inner thoughts more directly. The simplified work was reduced to a mere repetition of the same chord progression only.

The song was brought to then my band called Culotte and was recorded in a studio in an official manner in autumn 1992, and since then it became one of our usual repertoires in our gigs. When it came to playing it live, initially we had a guitar player who could replace the strings part in the intro and I could concentrate on playing the piano and on singing. After he left the band, the bassist became in charge of the intro and I played both the guitar and keyboard, occasionally making use of a foot pedal for sustaining the notes.

The audio in this video mainly features a demo version I later re-worked in 1996 and a live version from Culotte's performance in 1994. The silly lyrics is replaced with my casual guitar playing added in 2015 for making the video. I hope the concept that gave the title to this tune would have been finally fulfilled by being presented in the form of this video edition.