The final "Escapade" session

We all entered this project knowing a digitally simulated string section was possible.  How about we leave it with something new?  Instead of using a PSR-5700, or a Jupiter-80, we use strings.  Real strings!  A 34-piece orchestra.  Then we'll get not megabytes... but gigabytes.

We've come full circle.

Yes.  That is the thing that required me to keep the length of "Escapade", the song, under 8 minutes (160 bars at this tempo).  Who would have thought that my first time working with an actual, professional orchestra, would be on the 7th and final track of a (re-)remake of an album that, in its original incarnation, was accurately described as "William Shatner + lo-fi + 80s revivalism"?  Not only does this create a suitably big sound space for the album's finale, but it ends this project much as it began - with a musical direction that had previously seemed like a dead end being revealed, in fact, to be not so.