In late 70's singer songwriter Graham Parker made the simple but profound observation that "passion is no ordinary word". Passion is one of the most powerful forces of nature, and like most truly powerful forces it can be a source of great good and formidable harm.

Passion is often the seed and motivating force for love, intimacy, art, invention and social and political progress. Yet, passion can also be found as an instigating source of violence, aggression and destruction.

While passion is affected by outside forces, it is usually something felt in one's core, in one's heart and in the very marrow of one's bones. While passion is not synonymous with life energy, for most people passion is a vital component to their life energy.

Where passion is a force from within that creates, molds and guides our actions, feelings and thoughts, fashion is a social force and influence which likewise can have a powerful affect on how we live and the choices we make.

Fashion, from this perspective, is not just about clothes, but involves all the fads and preferences of society from art, to beliefs, to morality, to political ideologies. This is indeed the perspective this album takes.

Passion Fashion presents the interchange and tension between the passion from within interacting with fashion with its outside recommendations and social pressures.

The songs on Passion Fashion explore a few of the many ways in which this conflict and synergy of these two primal forces can get played out in individuals lives.

Much of personal pain and social destruction can be found in the personal fears, inhibitions and traumas which color one's view of the world and themselves. Likewise, much of the beauty of one's personal life comes about when they use their passions to create and foster intimacy and love in the way they interact with others and the world at large.

The fashions of society likewise can foster and be a vehicle for love, intimacy and human freedom. Yet, fashion restricts and represses as often as it frees and validates. The fashion of society can lead to war, prejudice and hared just as easily as it can to harmony and the portrayal of the beauty of everyday life.

When listening to each song pay special attention to the roles that Passion and Fashion are playing in the stories and lives depicted through both lyric and the emotional environments created through the music and orchestral tendencies.