Comments by Stephen Foglia/SPF) Another Conversation with Myself is a pop/fusion vocal featured tune addressing the parallels between the war in Viet Nam and the war in Iraq. It also describes my personal disgust and frustration felt towards the current administration. Inner Space is a modern bop masterpiece composed by Chick Corea in his early years. To my knowledge this is the only released cover of the song. Please send a correspondence to me if you have knowledge of the contrary. Zebras is a Latin/Rap/Fusion gem that pertains to a particular football franchise, and more specifically how that franchise has been jacked out of crucial playoff games due to kindergarten bullshit calls by the officials. Yes it is just sports, and yes it is only entertainment, but since nobody else had the balls to write a song about it, I figured it might as well be me. The Caves of Altamira was originally recorded by Steely Dan in 1976 on the album The Royal Scam. I think this is an extraordinarily deep song depicting modern homo sapiens as slaves to the media through the advent of television and cinema, while prehistoric humans, who could only document their life experiences through cave drawings, were quite content in the simplicity of their existence yet so far advanced in thought that even a person born in the 20th century could get the gist of what they were trying to say if one just takes the time to look. The first line of the chorus "Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall when there wasn't even any Hollywood" kind of sums it up, and I believe "the fall" can be attributed to how far we have fallen from grace or maybe just a premonition of things to come. In retrospect, I have become a media whore as much as anyone else, but have also come to the conclusion that everything does not need to revolve around TV, DVDs, cell phones or the Internet. This is just my interpretation of the song; so if you want more information, please contact Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The Beguiled is a personal reflection regarding my experience performing in several cover bands throughout the seventies, eighties and nineties and all the happy horseshit that went along with it. Most people who go to clubs and parties aren't there to listen to the music in the first place but once in a great while you'll run across someone who actually does. Tragically the day after one of my gigs one of those people was killed in an automobile accident on a trip to Yosemite. This song is dedicated to the memory of Donny Gilbeau. Crystal Ship. Who knows what was going through the mind of Jim Morrison when this composition was created, but in my humble opinion The Crystal Ship is probably a metaphor for a person under the influence of some sort of stimulant, although that is pure speculation, I can assure you the chord substitutions are truly my own. Also, great vocal work by Kevin Clark here. Remembrance is a 5/4-swing instrumental originally written in six. I felt by dropping a beat people might listen a little closer. Wishful thinking. This Revelation is an updated instrumental version of one of my first recordings "Revelations". I believe there already is a book in existence with that title so I changed mine. Christine Ago pertains to a fictitious person while the lyrics portray the culmination of a very frustrating relationship. I liked the sound of the name and the record needed a ballad, so that's that with that. Look at that Black Eyed Funk is really two songs. The first one being an atonal R & B instrumental based on a series of 7(b9#9#5) and suspended chords transcending into a Samba based on mi11 and maj9(#11) chords. Some of my influences in the composition and production came from the unique styles of Tommy Bolin, John Scofield and Antonio Carlos Jobim. In the End is a bittersweet vocal Bossa with additional Samba and Reggae sections inserted towards the middle. This WILL be the final version of this song unless someone else foots the bill. My Romance and Spring can really hang you up the most are timeless standards that have been recorded by many artists including: McCoy Tyner, Johnny Smith, Ron Carter and James Taylor. I believe these two songs fit very well together and wanted to record something with just piano and guitar, hence the title of this CD. I might add, Bill Evans recorded an album in the mid-sixties called "Conversations with Myself", so if you get nothing else from this record, here's a quote spoken by the great Liam Neeson from The Dead Pool, "It's a homage, not a rip-off." Stephen Phillip Foglia, July 30, 2005.