Wedding Dahlia, photo illustration © John Grant.

Joy of Love is a true compositional collaboration: ideas built on ideas handed off between the two composers. MS: mapped-out chords, B section melody, string arrangement. HR: bass lines, words, vocal melodies, and drum part. Conceived and realized wholly in the studio, this piece sweeps the listener away and back on a tranquil, yet powerful, musical tide. (Note: extended piano and trumpet solos are not included on this radio edit.)

Breezeway Records is also making radio versions of Plant the Sky and Rain available for .mp3 download or streaming.