At the outset of this period I chose not to try to become a professional musician, as I saw that it would interfere with the approach I was taking. I felt more affinity with the aspirations of Zen flute or high classical than I did with the idea of gigging. Yet, since I was a travelling seeker, I knew I would not have the pathway of study that both those disciplines require.

While in Paris I heard a recording of the Argentinian artist Atahualpa Yupanqui that opened to me another possibility - in his music I heard the same refinement, sophistication and intensity that I loved in Mozart or Beethoven, yet there was a rustic soulfull quality that made me think " maybe I could reach that."

During my first twenty years, like any musician, I put together words and music to write songs. But when Earthgate and G for Goddess arrived, I recognized them as fundamentally different, in that they were perfect expressions of how I actually felt. It was as if after following a river downstream for over twenty years, it turned a corner and I caught a glimpse of the ocean...