In the summer of 1985, Walls Of Genius collaborators Leo Goya & Jeanne Strzelewicz (now Jeanne Hatherly) moved into a mobile home on the property of an unused historic schoolhouse that was slated for demolition the following year. It was their job to prevent vandalism and homeless occupation. There was no electricity in the school house, but the acoustics were marvelous and Leo and Jeanne began hosting all-day jam sessions that included jazz pianist George Stone who lived in a mobile home on the same property with his dog, Mingus. Walls of Genius personnel joined in, we started recording on boomboxes and ended up with what you might call a "shit-ton" of material (that's technical talk). Transferring the material to Evan Cantor's Dokordor 4-trac reel machine made it possible (with a 6-trac TEAC mixer) to weave the best of this material together for 90 minutes of improvisatory free jazz. This was the first of what ended up as a 4 cassette album series. I originally called and marketed these sessions as "Walls of Genius & MIRACLE" because I felt that, free jazz not being particularly present in the cassette culture of the day, we would get more underground media coverage and a larger audience if it was presented as Walls Of Genius. I tried to balance the emphasis by always placing the name MIRACLE in all-caps. My recollection is that Leo and Jeanne were unhappy about this as they felt it was their group, simply Miracle, not "Walls Of Genius And Miracle". Arguably, members of Walls Of Genius were simply also members of Miracle. It could be argued that Miracle should have been "presented" by Walls Of Genius in WoG's capacity as an underground scene "label", much the way we promoted our live shows (i.e."Walls Of Genius presents The Flaming Jerks"). But that's not what went down in 1985. For this digital reissue, I am listing it as "Miracle & Walls Of Genius" so that Miracle gets top billing. My reasoning (rationalization?) is that all three primary members of WoG (Evan Cantor, Little Fyodor & Ed Fowler) were involved, in addition to another of our collaborators (Riff Randall). WoG was responsible for making the recording and it was WoG who promoted the music to the cassette culture underground, garnering reviews and a few live gigs away from the schoolhouse. So my feeling is that the music is as much Walls Of Genius as it is Miracle, but it can heretofore be known that Miracle was the primary entity. Additional players came from Leo and Jeanne's crowd. Joe Ketola was a friend of Leo and Jeanne's dating to when Leo and Jeanne lived in Eldora, west of Nederland, CO. Joe lived in the village of Eldora, (nicknamed "Hell-dora" for the winter wind) in an old miner's storefront that he had inherited via family and where we had many jam sessions prior to the schoolhouse. George Stone was a talented and professional jazz pianist. I remember nothing about "Scott Van Der". I obviously didn't know his last name at the time and so listed him as best I could. He was most likely connected to Little Fyodor via his KGNU radio show network. I have no qualms with Walls Of Genius being listed as second-banana in this case and it is my hope that all others involved are happy to see it thus.