"It's a kind of music lots of people like to hate, namely......."jazz-rock" for lack of a more accurate description. The "rock" that influenced me (I am 38) happened before punk or metal existed, so those tendencies are absent from my electric music. There are moments on the album that are borrowed directly from people like Frank zappa, and Sun ra. This will drive people away also, but hey I was just trying to have some fun. The first tune is a power ballad very much in the manner of FZ, for example, and the tune called "atop the bloat cushion" is sun-ra-esque at times.

There are tidbits of free improv........there are more than a few minutes of guitar solos..........there is one somewhat ambient textural jam at the end of the album........there are dumb derivative lyrics about space travel.

It bears noting that T. D. plays on only three tracks: Atop the BC/reprise. Sparkly, and After the Belphegor. (there may be one more I am forgetting). He is also mentioned in the lyrics of one song.

The guys in the band think there is an overarching narrative concept, something about Vikings and Aliens, breastplates, helmets with horns, and mist-shrouded battlefields.

Also, the sessions yielded another whole album's worth of tunes and jams, which will likely never be released, but they might get put up as MP3 files on the evandermusic website.

Finally my other group the Sour Note Seven has a live album more or less complete, waiting for me to get off my ass and release it. It is called "watching Paint Dry".

—Graham Connah