My first dream as a young man was, I'm sure, the same as the dream held by many Canadians. To become a professional hockey player. I valued creativity within the game. I enjoyed players like Yvan Cournoyer, Serge Savard, Wayne Gretzky, Igor Larionov. I was a playmaker type of player. I was encouraged by my Dad to never do the expected on the ice and I had an ability to "see the ice," as they say, to be inventive in setting up plays. It got me to a junior tryout but no further due to injury.
I believe we human beings are all creative and that creativity is to share with one another. It is what brings colour to our mundane lives. Years later when we enter an ice arena there is a feeling of familiarity, a kind of comfort, and as we step on the ice it is a reminder of a dream that still hangs in the moment. Its those feelings that are still real even though time has had its way with us.
Feelings are real and stay with us. Life lives in these feelings that we bury through our day to day. Our latest CD is a collection of six songs. These songs escape into a universe decorated with things worth remembering. A peace and a comfort that comes from having lived in this world, but still searching for what you hope is really there and something inside you tells you it is. A familiarity that holds you. As one dedicated fan told me," the songs aren't relaxing as in background noise, they are relaxing in the sense that they take you away." Away to a place you've never seen and yet you have. Feelings you want to return to. Another fan describes the songs as movie soundtracks. I'd like to invite you into a bit of your own world.