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JEWEL in the LOTUS is alive. It lives, it breathes, it transforms itself with the passage of time. It is the condensation of (to date) 8 years of piano writing and is constantly being added to, refined. There will never be a ‘master’ volume, performance or recording. The order of performance of the individual pieces that comprise Jewel in the Lotus is never determined before a concert, similarly the choice of which pieces are actually to be played in the performance is a spontaneous decision based on many factors: the performer, the piano, the setting, the audience, the time of day, the concert length, and so on.

The Recording
During the period 1997 - 2004 I composed a good deal of solo piano music for my own pleasure. At that time the majority of my public concerts involved trio or larger settings, featuring music composed for those particular forces, meaning the solo material (which I kept filed together under the working title Jewel in the Lotus) remained unperformed.

At the beginning of December 2004 I was presented with an opportunity to record at Broomstick Hall Studios in Waltham Abbey, Essex, and decided to finally document some of the material from Jewel in the Lotus.