Begin Round About Here

The mixture of Yes and Stravinsky is a traditional introduction. While keeping quoted portions of any work below the amount known to attract lawyers, I've thrown in elements of both.

Instruments: Grenada Acoustic Bass (Opening Harmonic only), Guyatone Archtop Guitar circa 1960, Samick Resonator Guitar.

Harmonia Circle

That most dreaded of all Yes' instrumental palette, the Harmonica, provides the basis for this piece. It is understood that a certain old-time AMYite may now offer a reward for my head.

The inspiration was something to do with listening to the Philip Glass/ Ravi Shankar collaboration. The call-response echo vocals in "Wonderous Stories" had a part in the inspiration too.

Instruments: PCM harmonica and PCM shakuhachi samples on Akai S700 sampler, Roland JX3P and Juno 106 synths.

Len Richards is lucky enough to live in a small inland city in Australia. He is also fortunate enough to have worked in a variety of interesting positions, including most of those obligatory for novelists: Trawler deckhand, theologian, strip-show MC, network administrator and "Classified Defence Work".

Currently Len is concentrating on growing his own (both vegetables and music) in between not quite enough freelance projects. A number of Len Richards albums: Second Nature, Guitarkive and AllGrey@Night have proven popular in private release and may soon be available via Tim Martin's eLithic label.

These bio details were authorised by MIDIKitty, the studio cat.

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