clarinet Jeff Elmassian composed by, producer, prepared guitar, xaphoon, cello, voice, field recordings, recorded by, artwork by Rick Cox composed by, producer, toy accordion, violin, piano, phase metals, field recordings, recorded by Thomas Newman executive producer, design Jim Fox mastered by Dave Collins mixed by Shinnosuke Miyazawa This jointly composed and performed collection of 19 often quiet and entrancingly enigmatic electro-acoustic works has been slowly developing throughout the past 25 years that the popular, acclaimed (12-time Oscar-nominated and six-time Grammy-winning) film composer Newman and the noted new-music composer-performer Cox have been collaborating on numerous and various projects. (The music of Rick Cox, a long-time associate of Cold Blue Music, has appeared on seven previous CDs released by the label, and Thomas Newman has appeared as a performer on three Cold Blue CDs.)