Somebody to Love (from 'Music for a Story-Telling')

Written in 1991 / Recorded in 1991 and 1993

Basically, as far as the music concerns, my conceptual work titled Music for a Story-Telling is a collection of reworks from my past compositions written in 1991; which are either materials I wrote for a band that couldn't exist long enough to perform them, and/or materials for a students’ theatrical project that failed to feature the whole of what I wrote for it at its actual performance. This tune only came from the latter occasion and was initially written as a theme tune for one of the key characters of the performance. Unfortunately, this theme tune was rejected by the director and was never used in the performance at all.

A few years later, when I decided to convert some of those lost ideas into a new conceptual work, all I did for this tune was adding the lyrics that suits to the concept of story-telling. In other words, since the initial version was musically perfect, all I could do was to simply leave it untouched. The tune was brought to my then band called Culotte, recorded in studios and performed live in various occasions. For making this video, I featured the initial demo version mainly with Culotte's studio take in the intro and outro.

In the story of the conceptual work, this tune has been converted to the theme for Kelp, one of the main characters in the story, and has a role of introducing him to the prospective audience by giving him a song where he gives his account on the situation he's in from his own perspective. This track was designed to be the second track following the Overture, in other words, this was designed to be effectively the opening track of the Story-Telling.