Central theme on our new album is the "Modinha", which is originally a Brazilian sad song, relating the role fate is playing in our lives. It opposites the "Samba" in which all the lusts and joys of life are promoted. In a way the modinha is a song of Experience, while the samba might be regarded as a song of Innocence. I composed the melody of this modinha myself, because I couldn't find an appropriate one in existing folk literature. Like the Finnish folksong on our previous album, the Modinha is changing throughout the album, ranging from classic to folk to jazz and to metal. Joy is dedicated to Holland's best progressive rock-keyboardist, the late Rick van der Linden. Keeper of the Keys is dedicated to the memory of Bob Moog, the world's greatest synthesizer-inventor ever. Stampede & Night on the Freeway are two new arrangements of the ZOUNDWORK-repertoire. The bonus track "Song for Lara" is a band-version of one of the pieces of my new keyboard-method. It's dedicated to Lara Vermeer, because she was my first pupil to play this new method. A post humus thanks goes to Jorge Amado (1912 - 2001) for having written one of the most inspiring books of world literature "Mar Morto".