 In addition to using a core band including Charlie Adams on percussion, Charlie Bisharat on violin and Steven Trochlil on clarinet, Joseph brought in a 50-piece orchestra and conducted and wrote all the scores.Michael Debbage of "Wind and Wire" magazine recalls, "It was the year 1997 and New Age music had already peaked commercially as the interest and exposure seemed to lag.The genres main labels – Narada, Windham Music, and Higher Octave – were beginning to explore worldly themes versus the warm, earthly, acoustic themes that prior artists had established.