A geographically diverse team of musicians, through Web sites run to support the software product ACID -- including ACIDGUITAR.COM AND ACIDPLANET.COM -- had gotten to know each other and appreciate each other's work. Perf DeCastro, Francisco Mestre, bassist Paul Burgess, composer Joaquin Gonzalez, multi-instrumentalist Richard Young, Charles Rathmann. The group had talked about producing a CD together.

A few weeks earlier, Rathmann had met a couple of organizers for Heifer International, whose message of a sustainable solution for hunger left a lasting impression on him. Certainly there was something he could do to help. Rathmann approached the friends he made during the ACIDGUITAR contest and on ACIDPLANET and pitched the idea of a benefit for Heifer -- and was delighted with the positive response he got from some of the finest players around!

The musical team was forged by email and airmail of CD-Rs as fragments of tunes criss-crossed the globe. Other musicians were generous enough to contribute their efforts to the project, including blues guitar master Rockin' Jimmy Crimmins, best-selling guitar author Phil Toshio Sudo and New Jersey jazz maven Scott Lerner. With the help of dozens of others and many late nights with co-producer Eric Swanson, a disc of world, jazz and blues music was forged.

All expenses of production were picked up by the guitarists involved. The group solicited charitable donations to pay for a limited edition pressing of the disc. All proceeds from wholesale sales go directly to Heifer International.