Hand - Across TimeAcross Time is an album of original compositions composed over several decades that draws it's inspiration from diverse traditions and musical languages. Renewal, Ballade for Astor Piazzolla and The Passionate Pilgrim were composed in 2021. Three songs: A Poet's Eye, I Am and There Is a Splendor, are settings of texts by William Shakespeare and the Italian philosopher Marsilio Ficino. The songs and Romantic Etude, Waltz for Maurice, Simple Gifts and

including former band mates Denny Laine and Mike Pinder

Catharine Crozier - Sowerby

an aristocrat who has dedicated his life to the revolution has become disillusioned and his cowardice keeps him from joining his comrades

New York rockers' RCA and Columbia recordings from 1988

Max Reinhardt put it on as an adapted Christmas play in Berlin and he had none less than Engelbert Humperdinck write the incidental music to it

but above all to his compositional legacies

" YOD explains

"The Visit" and "Black Thicket" operate more at a distance

Ammon's showpiece Boogie Woogie Stomp uses melody lines in rows of thirds

seem like enchanting ink drawings from the Far East

His first full-length

and stellar contributions from the other members of the Ensemble