At the End of the Day

Written and Recorded in 1990

It began with a random piano playing of myself, on a winter day in 1989, slightly being obsessed with one of then my recent favourite track from Brian Auger & the Trinity, Tropic of Capricorn. Soon after what became the intro for the tune was made, I picked up a pen and a notebook and began the planning for composing something colossal. I wanted to create something that could sum up my achievement in the field of music that far and this idea allowed me to mingle various influences I had received from different types of music into this one composition.
Thus, it includes complicated rhythm structures (mostly influenced by Frank Zappa), melodies briefly quoted from Vivaldi and J. S. Bach, Baroque-inspired fugue for a quartet in the middle, followed by the Holst-inspired exhibition-of-the-themes section, and etc.

Although it didn't take long from the emergence of the initial idea to the completion of the demo recording, when the final note was recorded, I realised that I was no longer enjoying to write and record such a challenging thing like this. With this realisation, for the first time in my musical life, I allowed myself not to go any further but rather to focus on what I really am. In other words, I realised that I can only do what I am able to do, at the end of the day...