ELEMENTAL ALCHEMY is a live-performance CD recorded in Ojai, CA in March 2015 based in the elements. Everything you hear on this CD was completely improvised. Each element was recorded exactly twice calling in the intention and energy of the element, and what you hear on this CD is the second take of each element track. We did not rehearse any of these tracks and none of this music was written ahead of time. The first take gave us some structure of the overall feel of what we were creating, and when we did the second take, everything came together in a way we feel captured our intention. The only thing planned in advance was which instruments we would use for each track and roughly how each one would begin and end – the musical trajectory of how it unfolded was completely spontaneous and in the moment. The sound of the birds are came from outside the space we were recording in – a renovated bunkhouse on a ranch that was once a horse stable set in the mountains among the flowers and orange blossom trees. The K