In the early to mid 90s Chris was in a band The Storm Thieves - something of a Crosby Stills & Nash with Celtic touches. They recorded a number of cassette albums.

In 1995 The Storm Thieves had recorded half an album (released only recently as "Long Time") when Christo fell ill with exhaustion after a German and UK tour. By the time he had recovered things had moved on and it looked as if the Thieves tracks would just lie around forever.

CC took his tracks and combined them with tracks of his from Storm Thieves cassette albums plus a couple of other tracks he had in the can from elsewhere.

The idea was twofold - one, to tie up the whole of his Storm Thieves experiences and material together and, two, to present a more forceful darker side of his songwriting. The previous Flying Home was a mellow album and he felt he needed a stronger image and sound. Also after his illness, he had been thru dark times as well, so the dark album felt appropriate to the times.

The darker, more Celtic album which proved more popular at folk venues and was CCs calling card promotional CD for quite a while.

Alan Stivell, David Crosby, Dan Ar Braz, Tom Pacheco, Richie Havens, Paul Kantner

1, 2, 8, 12 were recorded at Far Heath in Northamptonshire - 24 track reel-to-reel, mostly with midi track preproduction.
7 and parts of 12 were recorded at Memphis Studios, Leicester
4, 10 were recorded digitally at Oblong Studios, Leicester.
4, 5, 6, 9, 11 were recorded live and digitally in Woodbrook Studios in Melton Mowbray.

Survivors

Long Days Waiting, Turn Me Around, The Autumn Land, On My Way and Survivors were eventually released on The Storm Thieves Long Time album in 2007.

Endless Freefall, Road of Dreams, Easier Said Than Done & Three in the Morning were taken from The Storm Thieves - Endless Freefall album

Porth Ui Mhuirghaesa was taken from The Storm Thieves - Up To The Sun album