Dedicated to Phil Ramone

“Kudos and gratitude to Maestro Phil Ramone for having the courage and openness to help this recording come to pass. This is probably the best recorded sound of any Tisziji recording.  Whether it was the room, the quality of the mics, the skill of the engineer (Elliot Scheiner) or all of the above, it is a joy to hear the music both so clear and warm sounding.” —Ra Kalam Bob Moses

“At the Sky Worlds recording session, Phil almost made us play these tunes correctly! I like doing it loose, long, strong and deep. He had me change my sound from heavy crunch to very light crunch He adjusted my Mesa Boogie amp and was the only man to have put his hands on my knobs and get away with it! If for no other reason, I have to love this great and brilliant man for having the heart and courage to record my music in all its raw, heart-blown madness, when he was a genius of the classical school of music, and I, an ecstatic genius of the pre-classical or primordial school of Heart-Fire Sound. I would playfully call him Phil-harmonic. Classical music gone mad is jazz which, gone mad, is avant-garde, which mastered and transcended, is Heart-Fire Sound.” —Tisziji