Ground Holes

"But if you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity." Those were the exact words spoken to young Elya Yelnats the day he forgot to repay Madame Zeroni.

"I’ve decided to maybe never listen to this disk again. Once reviewed I might just leave it between other records waiting with extreme patience for rotation, and chances are that that never may happen. Typical as with many other recordings is that with every listen more and more details are revealed but with that also the magic of the very first impressions start to disintegrate and with Holes/Tract I’d like to hold on and remember some of this first encounter." –Pim van der Graaf, Progress Report (2012)

Richard Bach’s first book, Stranger to the Ground is above all else an insight into the character of a man whose great compulsion is to measure himself against storm and night and fear. On the surface it is the tale of a memorable mission of a young fighter pilot utilizing his skills in a lonely duel with death. Yet between the lines emerges the portrait of the airman as a breed, probing outward, but even more significantly, inward.