Twórcą i głównym odpowiedzialnym za projekt Dakota Suite jest pochodzący z Liverpoolu Chris Hooson. Jego muzyczny projekt to przedsięwzięcie bardzo osobiste, a sama muzyka daleka jest od wesołości, pełna melancholii, smutku, z bardzo oszczędnym użyciem instrumentów.

Hooson potwierdza, że od samego początku cała jego twórczość związana jest z Johanną i że dla niej tworzy, nią się inspiruje i wkłada w swą twórczość nie tylko całe serce, ale i serce przyjaciela Quentina. Panowie spotkali się m.in. na poprzednim albumie Dakota Suite "Valissa".

“life is only in a personality and every personality is based on dark ground, but this ground must be knowledge” j.w.f shelling

all my records are about my life with johanna, my recognition that I am so very lost without her, the knowledge that she sustains and nurtures me. I have made each song for her from the start.

I set out to write songs to celebrate who she is, more than I have ever done before I wanted to recognize that she makes me whole, that even though I have often pushed her away and caused her almost unbearable emotional pain due to my inability to see a way through this life, the trial and struggles of not feeling like I belong in it, feeling the world touches me too hard...and through all this she will not let me go. johanna’s capacity for loving me in spite of myself loathing and disgust is something I know keeps me alive, literally. even though she is herself scared and tattooed by holding me to herself.

meeting quentin in november 2009 was like meeting someone cut from the same tree. when I talked to quentin about the way the world is he seemed to have examples of his own that matched mine, the way he played piano showed me he was stood up to his ankles in the same muddy water as myself. now I count him as a friend and brother.

I sent quentin sketches on guitar and piano of these pieces and over many month.......
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