Winter Love Illusion

Written and Recorded in 1989

I began to be interested in Classical music largely through a close friend who was one of my university mates, who also played the bass and the keyboard in my successive bands from 1988 to 1990. Whilst his recommendation was Shostakovich's symphonies, I was rather attracted to some piano pieces by Eric Satie and Maurice Ravel that he played when I stayed at his place. After we worked hard for a relatively short period of time as a band called The Intellectual Gnomes in late 1989, I began to practice to play some pieces by Ravel on piano and this experience inspired me to write an original piece for piano. Within a week or two, I developed the idea into a composition featured in the video above.

Although I had to add some other instruments to complete the demo recording, I would like to congratulate myself for having written something like this, especially while being carried away with a fanciful infatuation towards a girl during the time of creation!