"Purify" is the second of my "lost" albums from the early 1980's. Neither it or the one before, "Embrace the Change," were ever produced for commercial sale as records or cassette tapes; I simply didn't have the money at the time! "Purify" is immediately different than all the albums before it because it is my first album to feature the synthesizer as its main instrument. In the summer of 1983 I had just purchsed what was to become one of the first classic synthsizers: the Yamaha DX-7.

I felt like a kid in a candy store! Suddenly at my fingertips were french horns, tubular bells, strings, flutes, electric pianos, organs and other strange and exotic sounds and some that I would program myself. My new sound palette really stretched my compositional abilities and that is why "Purify" is probably my most varied album from a compositional point-of-view.

Granted, some of it sounds a little hokey now, but it sure was fun then! I also recorded this on my 4-track; can you imagine what might have happened if I had just 4 more tracks? I probably wouldn't have done much else for the whole year that followed! I was still living in Evanston, IL, but actually did the recording in my home town of Madison, WI during the fall of 1983.

Guess what my friends and family got for Christmas that year?

ENJOY!