This album was recorded and mixed January—April 2010, at home while I recovered from surgery and resultant complications which threatened my life. The songs “Behind Their Thumb,” “This Winter Isn’t Ending,” and “Raise Me Again” were written during this time.

The writing of the song “I Am Of Nothing” was completed during this time. I had begun writing it during the recording sessions for my last album, Sea of Clouds (also available here at Bandcamp hint hint), and Kailin Garrity created some key parts for it during Autumn of 2009.

The song “The Cage (Aurora Borealis)” was written during my time in a band called Serious Pilgrim a long, long time ago; it's a song that we never played, but it screamed out to be heard lo these many years later.

Thank you to everyone who kept me in your thoughts, or in your prayers, or sent along a card, or a book (or an entire box of books), or magazines, or candy, or cookies, or crayons, or movies, or spaghetti-o’s. Thank you also to everyone who came down to pay a visit, be it at home or in the hospital, and sang some songs for or with me, or just kept me company for awhile.

I totally feel that it was the positive forces generated by an overwhelming amount of love and good vibes sent my way that got me through this. So again, from the bottom of my wee little heart, thank you.

Now, let’s rock again.

xoxo
-mart :: June, 2010