In Book of Stories, arising from composition, improvisation, synergy, and truth seeking, Critical Response challenges the average listener to find a way in to the ideas that have inspired this album. If the listener is up to it, there are rewards to be mined. Even if the tracks don’t point the direction to a solution, they do compel one to turn more inward than usual and ponder the situation.

Perhaps that is enough. In any event, it is a beginning.