I put this album on one night and, as it was beginning, started to wonder why it has the title the title that it does. Is it to soothe the raging breast of the international businessman as he sits in Departure? Or to soothe anyone who has to sit in an airport waiting to be called, to receive their luggage, victims of overbooking etc. Airports ca, after all, be stressful places. As I pondered, an image floated up, as imperceptibly as the music itself of gliding along on the silvery water of a deep Norwegian fjord, everything crisp and cold and minty fresh. And this I think is the point of the album, and maybe the reason for it`s title-that it`s a point of departure; that the spaces in the music create room for your own imagination to breathe, to take flight, and to take you on a voyage, a "trip" as I believe it was once called.

It got that title because it was commissioned by an airport in the seventies to soothe passengers because of all the hijackings that were taking place during that period.