I do a lot of sketching. Always have. Every idea I have gets fixed in the medium it came to me. Some sketches are conceptual (what would happen if I did xyz?) and go in my notebook. Some sketches come to me at the piano and get notated on scoring paper. And some sketches result directly from getting my hands dirty with sound-sculpting while working at the computer with software, or with electronic gear like stomp boxes. Those get recorded in the computer.
About a year before this album was completed a new theme emerged in my sketches - my ideas were getting thicker, denser, more complex, more layered, more distorted, perhaps even more angry. But also extremely vivid, strong, alive, vibrant. They were all about "more is more", so I called it my "maximalism" and decided to start fleshing out some of those sketches. This album is the result.
"INN PARADISO (what a great name) is magnificent. Just listened to it (closed eyes, etc) and it really blows you away. Hopefully you'll do more of this stuff... we need it..." (Academy-award nominee Javier Navarrete)