 I've recorded this album in a total of about 16 hours, and I've had it sitting under my ass for about two years, 22 months. So it really doesn't feel quite real that it's out there as of today, but I'm sure it'll settle in. The experience of recording in Bangalore, that was really, really interesting because I had been playing these songs for a few months, and we were kind of just keep kept on going with it on the assumption that we were like, okay, a bass player is gonna show up. And out of nowhere, one month before I was, I wanted to record this guy Jules comes along. I've never heard of a guy, apparently he was born here, and he was an incredible musician in general, incredible guitar player, and it turns out bass player. We actually got to Bangalore. I had never actually personally played with Aman myself, and I'd never met Martin in my life before. Aman was the pianist. But I had met Aman before, so I kind of was a bit, like some knowledge of his personality and stuff. Martin and I was just going in a row, I actually had no idea who this guy was, I just knew who the great sax was from time. So we were in Aman's girlfriend's basement, which is also a venue actually, and called the Blue Room. All of us together for the first time. Aman was just, he wasn't playing an electric keyboard, he was playing this slightly out of tune upright piano. And yeah, we were just like, okay, this is the first time we're doing this at all. So you know, I hand out the charts to everybody, and everyone's basically just, you know, slight reading. So we run through the melody a couple of times. It's fine, so decided to take the whole song. And Martin looks at me and asked some, well, it's a pretty, you know, chromatic chord sequence. Like, what do you want me to play? Like, I said, play anything you hear. And he said, we sort of repeated it like back to play anything you hear. Never heard that before. It was only like two or three days, but at the end of it, it really kind of felt like we're a family. I mean, like, which is not an experience I ever had before. Aman's dog ate my guitar tuner on the first day. We're just walking up the steps and we're about to have tea. I was like, where's my guitar tuner? And the dog is making some weird retching sounds. And the steps, like, completely dismembered guitar tuner. A couple of batteries on the side, like, and the dog was fine, but obviously the guitar tuner was total. And luckily, he had a piano, so, like, no worries there. And then someone else had a pregnancy scare. And it was all kind of stuff, man, all over the place. We're just like, we really, yeah, we really felt like a family at the end. It was never really supposed to be any one type of music because it's instrumental and stuff. Everyone kind of likes to think of it as jazz or talk about it as jazz, which is fine by me, because I love jazz. It's like, maybe one of my, maybe my favorite music, but I mean, I have lots of different kinds of favorite music. And I really, they didn't really, the compositions didn't come to me as from one direction or another. They just kind of came.