Micus explores the world, collecting instruments and then creating his own musical worlds from them. This is his 23rd album for ECM and on each one he composes the tracks, plays and overdubs them to create unique and exquisite pieces of chamber music. Aside from kalimba, duduk, 14-string guitar, and voice, Micus plays additional instruments from Armenia, Tibet, India, Egypt, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia and Ethiopia, most of them in combinations never heard before.

Tracklist:

1:The Eastern Gate
2:The Bridge
3:The River
4:Fireflies
5:The Moon
6:The Poet
7:All The Way
8:Black Hill
9:The Forest
10:The Western Gate