17 songs. 17 different viewpoints. Rybird has managed to take the listener on ride in a wonderland of diversified compositions and powerful ear-grabbing inflections. Quoting the notes found on this page, "Rybird has shown all his colors...", truer words have never been spoken. 2am defines the hour, the creation and the characteristic aspects of this master of ambient and techno /electronic music. I've heard no other with the quite the same unique talent and abstract sense of chaotic precision, an oxymoron to be sure, but I can think of no other way to describe his sense of order in a vortex of swirling creativity. He takes you "there and back again" to paraphrase a famous hobbit of the beloved, J.R.R. Tolkien. The opening track, a favorite of mine, is the epitome of the hour it suggests. Aptly named, it seduces your senses into that quiet time of the day when all things are possible and the world's troubles are easily dreamed into oblivion. All can be achieved and every dream is thought away from realization. It has the haunting night-time transcendence of being closer to another reality while being footed in this one. A stellar performance of reaching the mood we all wish to feel the other 23 hours of the day, if only that magic would sustain. Other songs on this album that have that witching-hour ambiance are; "Let me take you to the beach", "Nocturnal" and "Paper Trail", all smooth rides on the clouds of rolling notions. Moving toward the daylight of reality and down the