These four words were in my mind when I woke one morning in the early summer of 2006. I had no idea what peculiar dreams might have brought them into being, but what I did know was that they made a title that just had to be used for something – and what better than a piece of music? Over the next few days I started work on a composition which I visualised as a single piece of some length, in which all manner of abstractions, delivered by a variety of instruments, would be loosely bound together into a fairly cohesive whole. By the end of a couple of weeks I had a piece of almost twenty minutes’ duration, but after playing it several times I decided that it was both too long and too involved to be effective. While chipping away at it (and eventually getting it down to just under eight minutes) I developed nine shorter companion pieces. This CD is made up of all ten pieces. Here are five of them, including the title track.