Meditative guitars from the glorious days of Denver in the 1970's. The music is completely instrumental and mostly acoustic guitars: one nylon and one steel string. Some of the tracks feature an electric guitar played with an Ebow, an electrical device that “bows” a single guitar string without touching it. Steve Watt and Neil Ayer met in Denver, Colorado in 1977 and began playing acoustic guitar duets in local coffee houses such as the legendary Café Nepenthes. “Too Much” (one of Steve’s favorite expressions) was recorded in the mountains of Boulder, Colorado in 1978 on a TEAC four-track and the overdubs were done in Denver later that year. Initially, the performance was nearly an hour long and therefore “too much” for a vinyl album in the pre-CD age, so I started calling it “Too Much”. The name stuck, but ironically, after editing the tracks, only about 33 minutes of material survived. The tape was mixed in 1978 for a few friends, again in 1984 for use on a video tape of fractal art by Art Matrix, and finally in 2006 for this CD. There is more information on the music of Steve Watt and Neil Ayer on my site: www.wheelofearth.com also www.myspace.com/neilayer Neil Ayer 12/28/2006