The strings are down. Trio: Maxim Moston, Hiroko Tagahachi and Jesse Reagen Mann. Strings on songs entitled "Next Time," "Wish You Well," "Ready or Not" and "On The Other Side."

Now comes the hard part. Editing. Slicing away what's good from what's bad. Great performances will be cut for the sake of the whole and that's just the way it is. Editing is ruthless business. Everything that gets on the track has to be better than silence, which is a very powerful sound. THEN everything that gets on the track has to enhance the track, the sense of the song, the lyric. THEN it has to be out of the way of the vocal. THEN it has to be cool.

If the whole record was silence, it'd be close. Of course, that'd be theft.

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