When planning to record "Under The Stars", I committed to presenting a realistic and truthful live performance, with all of its beauty and flaws. While the most technically perfect tracks wound up on the original one-hour CD, I felt that the out-takes contained several of the best & most unique improvisations, and decided to release the rest of the Mount Wilson recording session as a digital EP. Some of my very favorite tunes are included here, but with flaws, such as out -of-tune notes, wetting-out, or the need to remove a long break where I actually had to stop, shake out my flute and start over. Others are simply alternative versions of melodic ideas that in the end I felt came out better on a different flute. I moved "Condor" to this album mainly due to time constraints - at nearly 8 minutes, it was the second longest tune I recorded, and I was running out of room on the original CD. One track, "Crane and Her Sons" includes a barking...