Girl,

Written and Recorded in 1996

Initially, this thing was roughly written and recorded in a provisional unplugged form with a title I Will Try, which revealed my desperate mood caused fro my real life in early 1996. It was also a confusing period in terms of my relationship with my own musical activities - from breaking up of Culotte by the end of 1995 to establishing a new recording scheme dubbed as The Soft Core Project by the middle of 1996 - and this tune was most affected from the unstable circumstance surrounded its creation.

The instrumental mix was duly made for the Project but I also re-wrote the lyrics titled Girl, (the comma, in the end, is included in the song title), which, obviously, was addressed to an imaginary girl standing in front of the writer / singer - I came across with the idea from reading a book by Ray Davies of The Kinks. In the meantime, as the Project progressed, I had to make another demo version collaborated with a keyboard player, who came back from some of my old bands,  for accommodating singers' voices and their own lyrics to go with the backing track. As a result, there also remain some different editions of this tune titled Moon Song, along with Girl, sung by the singer who wrote the former lyrics, accommodated on both backing tracks; the one you hear in this video and the collaboration version, and each version's instrumental mix.

Although I can smell some influence from Pete Townshend's Pinball Wizard on writing this tune, this is one of my favourite compositions from mine.