From July 1989 to July 1996 I had been recording at home under the name Asterisk*

In the summer of 1996 I spontaneously put together the first quarter of what would become the double-album Alter-Ego. I saw this ‘anything-goes’ project as a separate identity from Asterisk. I had been wanting to change to a more original name for some time. When in the summer of 1996 the original Fostex 4-track I had been using from the start was no longer functioning, I had to eventually get a replacement and it seemed the right occasion to finally switch to Warhorse, the alias I had adopted the previous year. I completed the Alter-Ego project with the new 4-track and recorded a complete new song based on musical ideas I had been formulating during the 14 months hiatus and that song became the first I did under the new name.

I crafted six albums over the next year prior to my departure for work in Japan (plus a track that I created for a best of compilation that later appeared on the next album). I returned to Ottawa for a holiday in August 1999 and created the seventh Warhorse album.

I permanently returned from Japan in July 2001 with the Yamaha MD8 Track which would be the defining hardware of the second phase of Warhorse over the next decade.

*Originally I mistakenly thought is was spelt ‘Asterix’ and only decades later retroactively changed to the correct spelling.