 At some point Carey flew to Los Angeles with a CD of songs and played them for producer Mikal Blue, whom he knew through Brendan James, who had worked with Blue to produce his last album, "The Day is Brave".After meeting and listening to Carey's music, Blue asked Carey to begin recording together and working on material, which they did.They ended up producing a full album's worth of material, but the release was cut down to an EP.