CITOVITZ AND FIREFLIES OF FEBRUARY have released the official lyric video for “Beautiful Damage” — the title track of the forthcoming album “Beautiful Damage: 1990–1994”, scheduled for release in April 2026.
The video marks the first official chapter of a deeply personal project: a collection of songs written between 1990 and 1996, rescued from old tape cassettes, and completed three decades later in a home studio in Cairo.
Watch the lyric video here:
THE CASSETTES THAT SURVIVED
The story of Beautiful Damage: 1990–1994 begins not in a recording studio, but in the discovery of two old tape cassettes — the earliest musical archive of Andrzej Citowicz, a Polish-born guitarist, composer, and songwriter now based in Egypt, recording under the name Citovitz and The Fireflies of February.
Those cassettes held the first songs Andrzej ever wrote. Recorded on an old acoustic guitar between 1990 and 1996, some tracks had lyrics. Others were just chords — ideas that a young boy in Wałbrzych, Poland could hear in his head but was not yet equipped to finish. They were put away. Life happened. Loss happened. And for thirty years, those songs waited.
“This is the next chapter of my music journey. I found old tape cassettes. Two of them. My first songs from 1990 to 1996. Some with lyrics. Some without. Just ideas a kid couldn’t finish yet. I wasn’t ready then. I am now.”
BEAUTIFUL DAMAGE: THE SONG THAT NAMES EVERYTHING
The title track carries the weight of the entire project in one piece. Written in the early 1990s and completed in 2026, “Beautiful Damage” is the song that gave the album its name — and its emotional compass. It speaks of lost youth not with bitterness but with the strange, hard-earned gratitude of someone who survived long enough to understand what those years were worth.
The damage was real. So was what it built.
“Sometimes you need 50 years of scars to finish what you started at 14 — and left behind in your twenties. I wasn’t ready to write these words then. I needed everything that happened in between to understand what these songs were actually about.”
Musically, the track draws from the classic rock and power ballad tradition that shaped Andrzej’s earliest instincts as a writer — influences rooted in Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Bryan Adams — while carrying the weight and production maturity of an artist who has spent decades refining his voice. The result is a song that sounds simultaneously like a memory and a reckoning.
COMPLETING THE UNFINISHED: A PHILOSOPHY OF RETURN
The album Beautiful Damage: 1990–1994 is not a nostalgia project. It is an act of completion. Using his home studio, modern recording technology, and the same beating heart that first pressed record on those cassettes, Andrzej has taken the strongest of those early ideas and given them the production, the arrangements, and the lyrics they always deserved.
Bassist and longtime creative partner Patryk Szymański — a collaborator of more than a decade — stands beside him again in this process, re-recording and rearranging the old demos into their final form. Theirs is a musical friendship built over years of work, trust, and a shared understanding of what music should cost to make honestly.
“Patryk has been with me through every album, every doubt, every late night when the music refused to come. On this one — perhaps more than any other — his presence means everything. These are songs I could not finish alone the first time. I am glad I don’t have to finish them alone now.”
THE WORLD IS TOO CRAZY TO WAIT
For Andrzej Citowicz, the decision to finally complete these songs was not merely artistic — it was urgent. Independent, self-managed, and uncompromising in his creative vision, he has spent his career building a body of work outside the mainstream music industry, on his own terms, at his own pace.
The My Revenge EP — released on his 50th birthday, February 10th, 2026 — was a declaration of survival. Beautiful Damage: 1990–1994 is its companion: not a look back in defeat, but a return with full understanding. Five songs for fifty years. Now — a full album for everything that came before.
“The world is too crazy to wait with dreams. Time to finish them.”
RELEASE DETAILS
Lyrics Video: “Beautiful Damage” — available now on YouTube
Album: Beautiful Damage: 1990–1994 — Coming April 2026
Originally Recorded: 1990–1996 (acoustic and early electric guitar demos on tape cassette)
Completed & Arranged: 2026
Music & Guitars: Andrzej Citowicz
Bass: Patryk Szymański
Lyrics: Andrzej Citowicz
Artist: Citovitz and The Fireflies of February
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ARTIST CONTACTS & LINKS:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7aIeg5DyI7xwkYLsBgJNWf
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AndrzejCitowicz
Instagram: https://instagram.com/citovitz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/citovitz/
℗© 2026 Citovitz and The Fireflies of February / Andrzej Citowicz
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