The easy manner in which it was birthed, comes comes across in the clean melodic songs that make up the gorgeous Manic Thematic.Inspired in part by the Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden effort, Beyond the Missouri Sky, there's a dewy, organic freshness that permeates the music,suspending the listener somewhere between twilight and the crack of dawn. 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 independent 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 is the current Artistic Director of the Jazz Studies Program at Mount Royal College. He has numerous recording, arranging and producing credits with Amos Garrett, The Tanya Kalmanovitch Trio, Senator Tommy Banks, Karl Roth, Tim Tamashiro, Craig Korth, Anne Loree, The Swinging Bovines and many others. Performance credits include Bob Mintzer, Rosemary Clooney, Christian Escoudier, Don W. Thompson, Dr. Ron McCurdy, K.D. Lang, Jann Arden, Marion McPartland, Bill Watrous, Hugh Fraser ,Eddie "lockjaw" Davis, Oliver Jones, Mark Murphy, Land's End Chamber Ensemble, Decidedly Jazz Dance, New Works Calgary, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. www.johnhyde.com