The more I investigate myself as a musician, the more I realize my approach is more akin to that of a graphic designer, or even an ecologist. Here in Hawai'i the people are in a time capsule, preserving only the paradisal things in life, unaware of the effects the geography and history of the island may have had on their collective psyches.

Of course how much of our geography and history plays into our collective Inland Empire musical conversation, unbeknownst to us? What if notions of movement, progression, technological advancement, et al. were all a part of our collective metropolitan, suburban reality and not for other places?