This is my fifth solo album going back to 2007. I have traveled a long ways since that first effort, titled 'Before the Dawn'. I have used a broad palette of musical tools in the creation of my art. Some may not agree but to me those who are brought together by the sound and the beat and the words of a piece of music become a kind of family, or, if you will, a 'brotherhood' of like-minded"Spirits in the material world". For myself and I believe for you if you find something intangible and alive in my music, this is why music is so important (along with the other arts). Music is the medium by which we seek to understand and share the innermost meaning and purpose of what it means to be human. In this aspiration and endeavor we strive to express the beautiful and the tragic, the serene and the horrific, the simple Truths and the complexity of being/becoming- by means of the magic of melody, rhythm, and the lyrical intonations of human voices. The mystery of the power of Music (and the Arts in general) must b