Portrait and Me (2025 Remaster Edition)

Portrait of Youth
Within its freshness and gentle breeze
lies the quiet fragility of all things destined to break and because of that very fragility,
its radiance lingers eternally in our memory.

It has been a year since I released my debut album to the world.
The poems I wrote back then continue to shift in shape,
breathing softly as they move from past to present,
and toward the future.
With this remastered edition,
I wished to crystallize those moments of change and growth
into a single work.

What was once raw and unpolished now carries finer detail,
a bolder sense of dynamics,
and subtle nuances alive in every breath of sound.
Its youthful freshness remains,
but layered gently with the warmth of who I have become today.

The thrill of UK rock, the freedom of jazz, the shadows of grunge,
the smooth winds of AOR, the pulse of house,
the warmth of R&B, and the passion of hard rock.
each fragment of music has been carefully rearranged
to resonate more deeply and vividly than before.

This portrait of a fleeting moment of youth,
wrapped in the passage of a single year,
has grown stronger, softer,
and hopefully closer to your heart.
May these newly awakened sounds
find their way once more into your memory
and shine there, quietly.