"Across the Stars" is the first album of a larger work divided into three distinct chapters all under the group name FLAG. It brings together the collaboration of me, Jon Sherman and another great friend and extremely talented producer / engineer, Tom Waltz. Some of these songs have been my favorites for many years though they hadn't ever been properly recorded before these sessions or had only previously existed in the form of tape scraps or demo's or worse, endlessly rolling around in my head waiting to get out. So then in the spring of 1994 it finally became a real and exciting process to marry the prerecorded MIDI orchestra, keyboard and percussion parts that Jon and I spent many hours perfecting at his home studio to Jon's live drum tracks at Tom's Boston based studio. Then I took a lot of time carefully adding bass and guitars. We then added a few more sonic touches and Jon and I finished up the duets and stacked background sin...