The CD is composed of six Porter originals, one Thelonious Monk composition, and a piece out of the Stephen Foster songbook. Porter's The Circle Is Unbroken, Meditation On A Rainy Day, Quarter To Four, and Blue In Rose are part of a series of compositions influenced by the cyclical nature of North Indian classical music. As Larry explains, "In the typical Western song structure, the melody comes to an end shortly before the form ends. In these pieces the melody loops around, obscuring the sense of beginning and end. This creates a feeling of continuous flow."

Bassist Johannes Fink and drummer Oliver Steidle are mainstays in the Berlin scene, and both realize the full potential of this repertoire through a combination of experience, adventurousness, audacity, creativity, and instinctive prescience.

The Larry Porter Trio plays an intimate music in which space, inference, and allusion help to round out a musical viewpoint that spans the history of jazz and beyond. But it's not history revisited; it's history revised and updated. It is a music that encompasses the influences of other cultures coming full circle back to the essential: creating music with a depth of meaning and beauty. For Porter, music is a spiritual force, one that allows us, at least for a moment, to sense the ineffable.