(Excerpt from the text in the booklet of the CD Remaster)

When South German art rock band Anyone’s Daughter suggested in the early 80s a long-play release of "Pictor’s Metamorphoses" to their record company at that time Intercord, label bosses failed to believe that it could be a success. One piece of music with a continuous playing time of almost 40 minutes, based on a philosophical fairy-tale by Hermann Hesse which deals with change, self-discovery, love and finally, the meaning of life just didn’t fit in with the musical zeitgeist at the time which was characterised by disco sounds and New Wave.

In the end, despite their first two albums “Adonis” (1979) and “Anyone’s Daughter” (1980) having sold well, the band were forced to finance “Pictor” by themselves – not least because of this, the band decided to opt for a reasonable live recording. After having performed “Pictor’s Metamorphosis” about 250 times since 1977, there were no doubts within the band that they would succeed in recording the LP before an audience. What you hear on that album is the recording on January 18th 1981 in the town of Heidenheim/Germany and it is absolutely live. Nothing at all was changed afterwards on that recording. “We made several live recordings but the acoustics at Heidenheim were simply fantastic! We performed well and the audience was really on the ball! At the time, we played each concert in front of audiences between 2000 to 3000 people … It was really moving when all the people in the concert hall sat there as quiet as a mouse (during Pictor’s Metamorphoses) and simply listened to us”.