First Woman on Lysithea is another dark track. It's about the last few minutes of my mothers life as she was dying of cancer related illness. The steady background sequence from one of Bach's preludes leads her through the final stages of life. She approaches her Eden with a big crescendo from the orchestra and as mission control announces her arrival the constant beeping of her heart stops. She is at rest and the pain has gone.

Passing the Sword Handle of Orion is a nice way of coming out of the emotion drain of the previous track. It lifts you up and gently takes you to somewhere where happy memories bring back the joy of life. A simple track that is something I plan to re-create and intergrate for a new mix album in the near future.

Moxam's Stars is probably my favourite track on this album. An orchestral piece that I would love to refine and have performed by a full orchestra one day. It's inspired by the modern Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. His work is also inspired by the Australian desert landscape. The night time skies in desert Australia have to be the clearest in the world. One wonderful trip I made in the summer of 1993 to the far north of South Australia - we stayed in the one roomed Moxam's Hut.

What A Day (Beyond Mt.Blue) sounds like an Enya track. I bought her Watermark album when it was released which at the time I thought was great. I can't quite remember why she was such a hit at the time maybe it was because here was a very attractive and un-threatening woman who could write and play good music. I suppose the place where she failed is that everything she writes sounds like the same one track to me. She needs some lessons from Bjork who I believe to be one of the great modern women composers who explores all possibilities and makes it acceptable in popular music.

Medindie Shudder was a experiment with a different timing signature with a sort of ethno-jazz influence. At the time I was mystified with dance music - I wanted anything other than a 4/4 time signature.

And finally the last track To Wish goes against everything I said about dance music and 4/4 time signatures. Well it all happened in the heat of the moment really. If I didn't do something in the dance genre it would all be over by the time I come up with something - how wrong I was about that. So in summing up "The Sun in the Bottle" - it was the starting post of exploration into my musical expression that seems so long ago and so different to where I am now.

Steve Roberts - August 2006

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