I am unsure were my ideas come from usually. I do have a creative mind once I get a spark that kick starts the process. In the case of this album, I was experimenting with ideas for a dramatic opening that had a cinematic feel. This then became the opening track “Birth of a Universe”. The other tracks followed around the same theme taking the listener on a journey of 13.7 billion years of the evolution of the universe in 56 minutes.
I have always had a fascination with the universe from a child and watched anything ‘space’ related, fact or science fiction, on TV with my late father. From Carl Sagen to Star Trek. The music of these documentaries also kind of stuck with me even when the BBC did use Brian Eno’s An Ending (Ascent) ad nauseam.