Word from the composer:

Mankind has never seen peace.
Though sad it may be that many shall suffer, most would not know another way through the world: gladly blaming the others for such inevitability.
On a very private level we know poets to have criticized this in the earliest of manuscripts.
The poems chosen for the songs on this album come from the works of the ‘War Poets’: the generation of British poets who were soldiers and officers, thus knowing the atrocities first hand, in the First World War – ‘the war to end all wars’.
Such are the poems my mother and her lover shared during their courtship. The pieces are written in loving memory to them.
My mother, with not much more than a basic training in nursing skills though learning fast, organized basic medical care while in the Japanese civilian internees’ camps for women and children in World War II.
My biological father, a surgeon in daily life (no mr. Visser - indeed), came from Scotland, (a rural Scotland he loved very much) in the war serving in long range penetration groups, from 1944 on a special mission going from France to Indonesia, and doing everything he would not do as a deeply caring medician.
Together they initiated a first regional hospital as an extension to his war-time (military) surgical post: “remedy for the loss of the humane qualities on the way”, as he would say.