Before the Flood 020 ℗ & © 2013 A.J. Ptak

This sound of performance artist Anthony Ptak. Liner notes: Before the Flood (2014) [4:02] Before the Flood 2013 is an original composition by Anthony Ptak, this performance was recorded a Gildas Club NYC after participation in an interview for the yet to be released documentary film Love Gilda. Anthony Ptak is an artist, composer, and cancer survivor. Here he plays the piano after his brain cancer had seriously debilitated his left hand. The title has a double meaning. The piano has since been removed from Gildas Club following a building flood that did serious damage, also the metaphor of flood has not been lost on the composer. That is to say, flood of tears, flood of emotion, cancer itself, etc. Dedicated to persons with cancer, and their families everywhere. -AJ Ptak