Album Notes

".. bringing a fresh perspective to the guitar-bass-drums setting with original material that might surprise fans of the trio format."
Roger Levesque, The Edmonton Journal-November 23, 2006

Manic Thematic's influences (Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Pat Metheny) are perhaps self-evident, though seamless and graceful.
Shereen Tuomi, Fast Forward-June 14, 2006.

I've played your CD a couple of times on the show...Great stuff - really enjoyed it.
Andy Sheppard (Host of After Hours)
http://cbc.ca/afterhours

Easy- Again, the easy manner in which it was birthed, comes comes across in the clean melodic songs that make up the gorgeous Manic Thematic.
Mike Bell, The Calgary Sun, Thursday september 25, 2003.

Currently serving on the faculty at the Mount Royal College diploma Jazz program, Ralf Buschmeyer is a graduate of Mohawk College where he studied for 3 years with Lorne Lofsky. Ralf has toured across Canada several times over 4 years with full-time travelling bands. He is co-leader of jazz fusion group Terrain(two independant Cds to date) Ralf is a Godin guitars artist.

Ralf has performed with PJ Perry, Guido Basso, Ingrid Jensen, Steve
Slagle, Amy Sky, The Platters and Jack Semple to name a few.

John Hyde Performance credits include Rosemary Clooney, Don W. Thompson, Dr. Ron McCurdy, K.D. Lang, Jann Arden, Marion McPartland, Bill Watrous, Hugh Fraser , Oliver Jones, Mark Murphy, Land's End Chamber Ensemble, Decidedly Jazz Dance, New Works Calgary, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. http://www.johnhyde.com

Andy Ericson has performed in Calgary for over 20 years. Besides being a remarkable drummer he owns and operates his own very busy recording studio