"We see them in the water... we feel them in our lives".
His wonderful acoustic guitar melodies drift over you like the southern breeze in a summer's night dream. No word can really express the relaxing journey Evan can take you on with his magic velvet touch on the strings of his classical guitar. The spirit of the music takes you on a journey to a much better place and time.

Although his material is listed as New Age it is really more of a pure form of guitar and acoustic instruments playing a very mellow soft touch blend of jazz, classical, funk, soul, Latin, rock and country as well as world music. This is a marvelous album to kick back and listen to just about any time. Majestic in its scope it is very uplifting and has a professional high quality recorded sound. I would recommend this artists whole page I have listened to it many times and can not find a song I don't enjoy listening to. guitar Salut king :wink

john de boer
We all have a song inside us it tells us who we are.

I love the stabbing beginning...leaves no lag or question of the groove to it. The piano playing is awesome...I love how it frames the rhythm of the brass and accentuates the rhythm.

If anyone listens to this, pay particular attention to what the bass is doing here...it's ushering in the different "waves", so to speak, with the awesome groove and effortless changing into the different movements of the song.

I *love* Mike's Sax and Jamie's trombone...the trombone giving it the high dollar class and the sax giving it the edge and the tabasco to the whole thing, and throughout you have Evan's guitar purity with the clean electric rhythm and that PURE non-adulterated lead.

Also, the giving of a lead to everyone (especially when we hit the non-rushed, non-hurried piano that just feels so good!), I'm wishing I had a pipe, a glass of the best port, and my man so I can slow dance and talk about what I want to do later.

This is also a prime example of the right way to build up a song...it's not hurried, not messy, but ohhh so clear and synergistic. I wish I could hear what happened after the fadeout because it faded out with me wanting MORE MORE MORE...

I would recommend listening to it 2x....the first to admire the technical performance, superior production, and the structural melodic tempo....and the second to FORGET all that and lose yourself in the sensuous feel of it from start to finish.

This song is intoxicating, and quite different than Evan in the past...which just underscores what I have been saying since I met him on Funender...he's a GENIUS....

And now I have new admiration for Mike (WOW on that sax!), Jamie (you give hope to all trombone players!), Doug (this was done in a short TIME?! I'm not worthy!!!!), and SUSIE, whom I'm jealous of for getting a song like this!

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I especially like the way it builds up very slowly and adds texture of rhythms as well as the changing of solos from flute to guitar to reed/flute interweaving, piano, with a fantastic deep rich etherial synth in the background.

Also, very much attention to detail I sense here, as the guitar definitely takes on a Spanish flavor to it....an incredible memorial....I mean....incredible!

I like at right around the 3 minute mark, the music changes a little to show the heart of the people who gave their lives and the families who must show courage in the aftermath of losing their loved ones.

I can tell in different areas of the song where it ceased to be a "song" with definite mapping of where things went, and became more of an exposure of the subconscious, where you could see that Evan was reading Barry and vice versa, where the distance between the 2 made no difference, and for a second, especially at the 6 minute mark, they were one mind.

Near the 8 minute mark, to get to the technical aspect, you can see a really good interweaving of different instruments, where it isn't just one doing rhythm, one doing lead, and so forth. The flute really shines here, and I think to be honest, this is what humanity is really all about....different backgrounds, different experiences, but a coming together in tough moments like these.

The fade out was good....and I really feel better for having listened.

Fantastic job both of you!!! Thanks so much for creating this song!