Originally called 'Inspired By The Mighty Sky', because of the band Sky who were one of the first bands I ever liked, due to my Dad having their records. I remember feigning illness when I was about 7 because I knew he had brought a copy of their newest album home on tape from a friend at work.

They were a huge influence on the musical me, for life, since they mixed up classical and rock, blues and hints of jazz, they had elements of 'humour in delivery of sound' in some of their songs, which is something I absolutely love and try and put across in my work.

I amuse myself a lot with some of the things I put into all of this music. Sometimes throwing in weird ideas that just don't fit, just because it's funny to do that, awkward, interesting, different. The reason things don't always 'fit' for some people is because it's not expected, so it's worth challenging that at some point.

After not working close with these songs for quite a few years, I am listening to them not like I made them. Completely impartial, in fact, some parts I had forgotten what happened in them, I couldn't remember what came next, and it was a nice surprise, like, 'What? As if I did THAT with that bit!'.

Anyway, this piece was my first attempt at something of a slightly, only very slightly more traditional classical music piece, but trying to fuse something a little different in there too. It's definitely veered more towards everything else nonsensical I was doing, but, I am still pleased with it, even though the mix is a little wonky.

Some sounds come out sounding weird compared to the MIDI sounds, this is deliberate, I wanted to play with some of the sections before releasing it on this one a lot more, rather than leave them sounding as mechanical as otherwise.

This is why this (and 'Onwards') are at the end, because they are separate from the Diascorium based stuff anyway, and have a bit of a different feel to them, which is why I played around with extra sounds on these two and not the others.

This is another one I hope you can use the imagination on and picture a collective of 6 or 7 musicians playing this in a big hall with a pipe organ at the back of it (maybe even being played in that slow section around 2'30)

It sounds weirdly 'produced', I admit, I'm not 100% with the mix and the balance overall, but, after so many attempts at sorting it out, I don't know how to make it any better. It's down to the original recording I made from the Guitar Pro file, but, such is the nature of this whole project, this release, and this entire challenge that I decided to do... it is now as finished as I can get it.

I am letting go of it, and it is imperfect, but, it will never ever ever be perfect, never ever be exactly how I want it to sound. The big part of this challenge, and the challenge that a lot of recording artists face is the letting go of their music after being so inside it for so many months, or even years. This has always been my biggest problem, part of why I haven't released a lot more over the years... and it has haunted me for half my life, so, this is where all that stops...

Onwards to a very different future...