What began as a vacation funded by a tax refund developed into a collaboration that over the last few years has produced a series of recordings praised by critics as well as by musical innovators such as Laurie Anderson, Maria Schneider, Gerry Leonard, Pauline Oliveros, Emil Schult and Jon Hassell.
The rather unlikely duo responsible for this otherwordly music has never performed the material publicly and initially simply gave homemade copies to friends. Even with this seemingly reclusive approach, word spread and they gradually became somewhat of an underground phenomenon.
Despite a resume that includes work with prominent artists such as Steely Dan, Barry White, Tony Williams, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Dave Liebman, The Maria Schneider Orchestra and many others, the duo made the mutual decision to forego higher profile career paths and concentrate on their own musical explorations. In order to have the time and resources available to manage the many aspects of releasing independent music, one returned home to run the family business after nearly fifteen years touring the globe while the other took a job as an archivist for Lou Reed and now works with at risk inner city kids. The result of their focused efforts is a body of work that has been described as "a stunningly beautiful hybrid of jazz and modern world music", "subtly felt, dazzling, and utterly essential", "a musical companion to Thoreau's Walden" and yielded comparisons to the legendary collaborations of Miles Davis and Gil Evans.