Love Cycles and Full Circles is different from any project I’ve ever done in a number of ways. For one thing it’s long. Very long. A full two hours which is a good thirty minutes longer than the double albums I grew up listening to on LP. It’s my second release in one year which is something I’ve never done as well. Beyond the material facts, the content is also unique. The bulk of the music on the album chronicles a forty year personal relationship which I have never related publicly. This is despite the fact that it is the subject of most of my earliest work, from roughly 1980 to 1986. In fact instrumental versions of a number of these songs where my first published works in the early eighties. I considered these particular songs private, only intended for an audience of one. Some involve painful events in our lives that I didn’t wish either of us to have to revisit. But it’s with her encouragement and blessing that I finally decided to tell our story. However this is not entirely a history lesson. Eleven of the twenty three tracks were written two months prior to recording. Two of those are what I would call social commentary. We live in interesting times and everyone seems to have an opinion that they think should be given weight no matter how unqualified. So naturally I included my own unqualified opinions on this album. I hope you will judge them on the merits but I don’t expect you to afford them any more weight than the opinions of anyone you might meet in the street. In the end this album is a musical journey taking 3 minutes for each year travelled. I hope you enjoy taking the journey with me