One day in June, 2003 I called Sven Seaholm and asked him what it was going to take to get him to produce my record. I had talked to Sven about recording a follow-up to my first CD, "Unbelievable Unknown." Now I was finally ready to follow through, and I needed his help. He was instantly delighted at the idea for, I think, two reasons. First, it had been a few years since "Unbelievable Unknown," and it was indeed high time for me to put out the record everyone was waiting for. Secondly, Sven wanted to make the same type of album I was thinking about. While he liked "Unknown" he told me that it just didn't feel like a Dave Howard performance. He was right. When John Katchur and I embarked on the recording of "Unbelievable Unknown" we started with my solo performances and built overdubs on top of them. We approached each song as its own entity. What resulted was a multi-layered collage of each song. Often we had trouble finding or scheduling the right player for each part on each song. Even more often, I ran