The album features popular songs arranged for voice and guitar from theatre and film productions by Latvian composer Imants Kalniņš.

"Nothing in this world sounds quite like a person's soul, in which all dimensions can be found This is given to everyone from birth." – Imants Kalniņš

Kalniņš composed the Cello Concerto, Piano Sonata and his first music for theatre while still a student. During this same period (1961-1964), he additionally served as the pianist for the Riga Pantomime, led by Roberts Ligers. Likewise, it was during this time that he gained his first creative influences from imported rock-n-roll, particularly recordings of The Beatles.

In 1966, Kalniņš became a member of the Latvian Composers' Union. After completing his studies, he moved to Liepāja on Latvia's western coast and taught at the Emilis Melngailis School of Music until September 1967. He then worked at the Liepāja Theatre until 1974. In 1969, Kalniņš founded the rock-n-roll band 2xBBM, whose repertoire included songs by The Beatles, arrangements of Latvian folk songs and original compositions. However, after a concert in Ogre in 1970, the authorities banned the group from performing.

Kalniņš composed many of his best-known rock songs, as well as the rock opera Ei, jūs tur! (Hey, You There!; according to some sources, the first rock opera in the Soviet Union), in Liepāja in the late 1960s and early 70s. He then spent a year in Riga, and in 1975, he moved to the "Vecpaulēni" home in rural Vecpiebalga, where he composed the operas Spēlēju, dancoju (I Played, I Danced) and Ifigenija Aulida (Iphigenia at Aulis), the oratorio Rīta Cēliens (Morning Hours) and other notable works.

The music of Imants Kalniņš is absolutely unique and individual. His style is equally recognisable in the classical as well as the non-academic genres, and it is just as brilliant in symphonic music as it is in popular music. Ostinati figures and detailed ornamentation of melodies or principal themes abound, and there is no lack of characteristic harmonic progressions and cadences. While works from his early period tend to have an expressionistic character, his later works are characterised by crystal-clear texture and classical thinking.