Elixir from Confluence by Nancy Rumbel, David Michael, & Benjy Wertheimer

(David): I musically quoted myself quite a bit here. Some of the themes are recycled from earlier harp pieces: Flight of the Magicians; Return of the Magicians; The Long Dance Home and Magic Carpet. It has been developing and morphing for years and making it into a duet with Nancy transformed it to a whole new level. The first time we ever performed live together, it felt pretty close to perfect and had a lot to do with why Kim decided we just had to make this album—so of course we wanted to include this piece.

Grammy-Award winner and woodwindist, Nancy Rumbel, has teamed up with Celtic harpist, David Michael, and tabla/multi-instrumentalist Benjy Wertheimer to create a whole new sound. An abundance of riches are added by a talented cast of their friends: Michael Mandrell (guitar), Richard Russell (sarode), Sean Frenette (bass), Mark Eubanks ( bassoon), and Steve Gorn (bansuri flutist.)