music ©1990 by colin nicholls & walter nicholls
This instrumental was originally titled "Through the Looking Glass" for no particular reason, but I renamed it for inclusion on "Inevitable". It dates back to 1989, when Walter took one of my improvisations and added a second section to it.
I've worked in it periodically over the years, most recently in 2000. It would have stayed there, except that I had a need for an additional piece of music for the album: I wanted the last track to be a bookend for "EULA", representing the "Help->About" or "Credits" sequence. I wanted to include an homage to Oldfield's Tubular Bells, to introduce the instruments involved in producing the music.
Well, I didn't manage to create "Help->About" as a separate track, so I pulled "Looking Glass" back out of the archive folder intending to use it to fill out the CD's running time. "Looking Glass" turned into "Reflection API" which turned into "Introspection" and here we are. Also, I get to include the homage.
I may create a shorter version (without "Tubular DDLs") to more closely match the original "Looking Glass" structure, perhaps for the bonus disc.
Instrumentation (in order of appearance)
Walter was back at the parents' home for the summer; I stayed at our flat and spent quite some time with the Jupiter 6 and the Akai VX90 synth and X7000 sampler and wrote many many variations of bass line + chord sequence through a delay pedal. This was one of them.
Later versions omitted the burbly synth and bass note intro, but I decided to add a variation of it back in the final version of "Introspection".
1990, with Polysix, guitar, and Korg M1 sequenced bass and drums. This one featured a new second half, written by Walter if I recall correctly. A lot of fun to play. Walter is performing the keyboards, I'm on guitar obviously. The synth patches W is using here are from the Korg M1, and they are actually still in the instrument's patch memory today, and yes, I used them in the version on "Inevitable".