Having composed many pieces of music for the Lonely Planet and Globetrekker series merging ethnic music from the likes of Greece, Iceland, Madagascar, Brazil, Ireland, Australia, Kenya and New Zealand to name but a few, with Western House, Lounge, Drum & Bass, Trance and Chillout styles I wanted to record an album featuring my saxophone playing. During the mid 90’s I had performed live with the groundbreaking Ambient group Shen. We played semi improvised Ambient Dance music at the likes of Bagley’s Warehouse, The Big Chill and many other clubs in and around London. My role was to provide organic, melodic musical material to offset the programmed and electronic nature of the compositions. This involved playing a variety of Classical and Ethnic flutes, Kubing and soprano saxophone. I never found a role for my tenor in that group. By the new millennium Ambient music had run it’s course and had been replaced by Chillout and Lounge styles from the ...