Motus: (Latin for movement?)… nice bold opening, very interesting and engaging build-up of rhythm tracks, keyboard parts nice and ‘trippy’ throughout, really warm ending (for my personal taste, I would do without the slightly jarring high-hat opening and closing at the end, only because I love that soothing and resolving quality of that synth chord at the end fading to nothing, but like I say that’s just my personal taste). could do with a little more bass in this piece…

Dare, To Try Again: I really like the dull lo-fi keys opening and the thudding kick, and then the bringing out the treble in the second keys part and then that lovely piano note as it gets going, real toe-tapper, nice bit of Arabian figure, too… 1:43 love the opening up the range of stereo, feels bigger in scope as a result… I want to lose myself in dance in this one… 2:55 lovely reduction again back to the held-back vibe and gradual build up with the piano again… by the way, I didn’t mention the bass part, which I love in this…

Forgive The Interred: (intriguing and touching title)… arresting beats, took my ears a little while to adjust to this… loving the keys and bass parts… the snare part reminds me (happily) of one of the tracks on Eno/Byrne ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’… love the cymbal near the end… enjoyed the minimalist breakdown to the end…

Inertia: Great opening with beats and female vocal sample… love how the keys come in… really tight and upfront sound to this one… darker and slightly moodier in feel… love that lower key part offbeat refrain… great bass… yeah, I’m really liking the way this is constantly building and holding back and pushing forward… it stays held back, restrained while also being pushy… 2:50 Love it… really drives, this one… (potential for an expanded version of this one opening up and really going big scale for club dancing, but I like it as it is, too)…

Losing A Penny Finding A Pound: unusual bass part, industrial sound to this… once that keys part comes in at 0:30 it all makes sense… now the bass sounds like a Zambian bass line… real hybrid of styles, this…

Revelation: Love the opening… anticipation… bring on the thudding… wow, this really takes me to ‘Lemon Jelly’ and Eno/Byrne again… really enjoying the creativity of this… 1:30 thank you for the lovely major 7 chords… warms my heart and gives me a dose of Crosby, Stills and Nash… lovely vibe… I like the well-spoken gentleman, too… thoroughly enjoyable track… 3:19 fabulous emergent quality… so uplifting… it’s bringing tears of joy to me as I listen to this… I audibly sighed at the end of this one… thank you for the revelation…

Crest Of A Wave: a real palate cleanse straight away… like the hand drum sound and rhythms… this does sound very upbeat… loving the chords and bass note choices here… I love that low bass note you choose 1:46 (for example), which alters the flavour of the chord above it… great choice!… 1:52 lovely shift almost like I’m in the surf itself with this fizziness!… very happy music… I can see the smile in this… it’s making me smile, too… great fade out… really fab feel at the end…

Palma Non Cine Pulvere: Strong opening between thud and offbeat keys… nice build with hi-hat and snare/clap sound… driven… I can see a wide open Persian desert, driving at high speed in an off-roader… it’s got a real traveling across wide open spaces feel to this… there’s that Arabian touch again at 2:35… love it! so dark and atmospheric… it’s reminding me of ‘Ozric Tentacles’, this one (a very good thing in my opinion!)… I’m dancing on my seat here, with a really mean frown on my face! ha!… great climax and ending… fab! Love that clever key part coming back in at the end and then pitch diving!

Flashbacks: Ooh I’m liking this one, with the male voice and the bass and beats… love the keys parts… very melodic and rich… female voice is great… and then back to the man… 1:33 that keys part is my favourite melody so far… absolutely wonderful… it’s making me feel very happy to like this so much… there is a very deep emotional quality to this one for me… utterly beautiful…

Pax: spacey and ethereal… thoughtful and just what I need after all of those beats… the soundtrack with this is perfect… keys parts so comforting… when I go in the ocean I sometimes lie on my back and float on the wav – this feels like that… the chill room at he club… white sands and calm seas… perfect…

Building Steam: back to business… but with that same spacious sound, but with that disconcerting minor chord adding an edge… love the rhythms… bass part is great… I recognise Bev’s voice here, great quality as always… I’m loving this piece, it’s so danceable with these cymbals and other rhythmic sounds… great piece…

Cirrostratus: (I love these on a winter’s night!)… very good build again… this all has the feel of someone who knows what he’s doing!… it feels like a coming home after a long time away, emotionally… there’s a distant quality to this which I like… measured… considered… expansive… intelligent… 3:09 the lead melody arrives!… fab… will it play again?… no, it was was a one-time experience, blink and you’ll miss it – glad I didn’t blink then!… great piece!…

We Got This: Fantastic piano part… great kick, great bass, great synths… so held back – love it… go on, go on 1:36 yeah!… you HAVE got this!… that piano part takes me back to The The’s ‘Mind Bomb’ album… I love this… that lo-fi to hi-fi thing again at 3:45… it really does it for me… I am crying with joy listening to this marvellous piece of music…

Neil, congratulations on a magnificent achievement! I am honoured and privileged to have been given the opportunity to listen to this masterful piece of work. Your compositional abilities are something to be admired and celebrated. And your mixing is so good. These masters are sound. Really sound. Thank you so much for trusting me to listen to this. You must have worked so hard to produce this. I am very happy to have listened to it and I am still smiling as I write this. I look forward to meeting you in person sometime and shaking your hand!

Dave