Following 2024's OCEANIC, where Greinke performed all the music himself, he envisioned a follow-up release based around an ensemble. Inspired to create a vibrantly energetic groupsound, he enlisted four exceptionally skilled, intuitive musicians out of the Seattle new music scene to take part in his sonic adventure. Greinke sent each song-sketches from which to work out their parts. He later gathered everyone in a Seattle studio to record a live session of the album. This was the ensemble's first meeting; in not knowing what the others had been working on, an excited anticipatory charge was felt in the room. Greinke created an enticing environment for the players to interact within, working around his open-ended compositions. A spirited, imaginative musical alchemy was captured during that session culminating in an album unlikeanything in Greinke's catalog.