We want to make closer contact with music in order to learn more of its nature; thus we can range more broadly and freely in the areas of musical style, form, and expression.

The first use to which commercial recording, in the form of Edison's phonographs, was to bring music to the living rooms and picnic tables of those who could not afford to pay live musicians.

The fruit of this collaboration is an ambitious double album “Parfums Ottomans” that purports to render Ottoman court music in its purest form.