"brave new world" is a picture of a moment - a stormy voyage of two best friends who are each - on their own - learning slowly and sometimes painfully about this thing called loving. the cycle is the arc of lives of loving, yearning, reaching out for connection. synapses firing across the void time and time again. it's full of moments - the "brave new world" of a sailboat journey to a distant shore and a hull burned for warmth. from the "waves" of a zealot preacher crashing down on hard stone to the protest of "draw the line" and the gender-bending "woman blues," this CD is life lived hard, well, and real. said miranda: "o brave new world that hast such people in it."