A chance encounter with an old, battered Roland Jupiter synthesiser coincided with the purchase of some overdue, upgraded recording software, a net result was that for the very first time, I found that I could connect a synth to the computer utilising MIDI, previously this had been something of a ‘black art’, it had eluded every effort to try and conquer the mystical beast, now I was hooked up… so…onward with the experimentation. The very first tune born from the marriage was christened Jupiter, after the Synth of course, this got me thinking and after a short while, set the theme for the rest on the album. An interest in space and space exploration, from a very early age, became an inspiration to write music based on the Solar System to which we all belong. As a child, at school, being forced to listen to the likes of Gustav Holsts Planet Suite and Beethoven’s 5th never went down very well with my classmates or me. At that time, Classical music was something that our parents would have had us listen to, some of us were even forced to listen to the likes of Joe Loss and his band, that for us was some sort of audible torture. We, however had far better tastes in music than this, and being the rebels that we were, preferred the likes of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and the all time favourite of Lost in Time, Barclay James Harvest, it was they who first gave me the insight of a Rock band combining classical orchestral sounds with guitars, bass and drums. The album was never meant to copy, or emulate either Gustav Holst or Barclay James Harvest, I don’t think that any of them had used much in the line of MIDI, but the album had to have an element of my rock roots included on to it, most tracks you can hear a real bass guitar, acoustic and electronic drums and my trusty PRS guitar makes more than just a guest appearance Beyond the Skies was recorded between November 2010 and May 2011, at Sandringham Studio Stalybridge, Cheshire England, Linzi Gerdon from Record Review News writes: The album takes a new direction for Lost in Time, a huge step away from the more usual Classic Rock style that Trevor is renown for, a combination of styles, listen and you can hear elements of Pink Floyd, Amun Duul along with essence of Can as well as the many other electronic bands that have made a mark over the years, but this is undeniably the work of Trevor in his ‘Lost in Time’ guise. Music that is similar but very very different to anything else out there at the moment. In this image means everything generation, nothing comes even close to comparison. This album can be listened to whilst chilling out after a long day, or be heard on the most trendy club dance floor, a strange, unique album that is not easily categorised, all in all, very highly recommended. As for Gustav Holst and the Planets Suite, I liked that sort of music then and still do now, but I could have never admitted it to my old school friends, I would have been skinned alive Dedicated to the memory of Stuart John ‘Woolly’ Wolstenholme