"Shine & Rise is an enjoyable, varied and sometime crazily joyous collection... Try For The Sun - a delight!" - Rock'n'Reel magazine. The album Shine & Rise - which could quite easily also be called Hodge Podge Stew - includes 12 songs collected together from latter day Zen tracks, a few Mandrakes tunes and some solo recordings has now confirmed and includes the sweeping La Fille Francaise complete with full orchestration, uptempo rock of Déjà Vu, and death-pop of Crazy Lady, along with a multitude of others which are sure to swirl through your brain like an acid drenched carousel in the land of Oz.