Did the passing of time lead to a different approach from say Echo Bridge?
Well in essence we started this album all those years ago and really just carried on from ‘Echo Bridge’. I thought that record had really good players on it in the shape of Yeovil musicians Guy Forse and Tom Toomey and they subsequently played on the first three tracks of the new album. But with Jon moving to Bournemouth the same people obviously weren’t as available so we had to build up a new network of new players. So at this point the making of the album slowed down. At the same time I had gathered together about 5, 6 maybe 7 AOR ballads, but only 4 finally made the album. In the meantime I re-met Chris Gunns the arranger, so I called him up as I’d always wanted to work with him again and it turned out he wanted to join the project. So I played him about 3 songs and he came up with the string arrangements. At this point I was thinking about a whole album with the string ensemble, but Chris suggested keeping the earlier tracks. I consciously tried to make the album different from th
