For this project Bill Schmidt has pulled together a fine cast of singers and players from the NEK of Vermont and Northern New Hampshire. In the earliest days of the Gnosis Project bill recruited the sultry, soulful voice of  Andrea Durfee ( sister of another young, local vocalist, Christina Durfee, who is now touring the country singing with the Jen Hartswick Band ). Together Bill & Andrea along with a solid young percussionist Shawn Straffin, brought the Gnosis Project to life and to the public playing in local venues such as the Middle Earth Music Hall in Bradford Vermont. it was at a performance there that they met a young couple from new Hampshire who loved what they saw and wanted in. Alyssa Lucas & Paul Magrow brought an angelic voice and a slinky bass to the mix, as well as a very loving vibration. Gnosis was like a family full of love. Andrea & Alyssa's voices blended as though they were never meant to be apart. The boys laid down the rhythm with passion and precision. Bills song were taking on a life of there own. His vision was being realized and evolving before his eyes. The group was developing a loyal following amongst the young rabble of Lyndon.   After a short but educational band expedition to Nashville Tennessee, Gnosis was ready for the studio. They Teamed up with Recording artist & producer Derek Campbell who'd been hounding them to come and record a few songs at his recording studio, Underground Studio in Lyndonville Vermont, ever since recording Bill & Andrea doing A Cold Winters Night months earlier.. The sessions went well, yielding such tracks as Crush, End Days & others but eventually time & distance separated the group and Bill was once again wandering in the wilderness.   He then got together with an experienced drummer and old friend from the Northeast Kingdom named Bobby Bousquet to record Love in the Summertime at the home of Randy Sanville who also plays bass on the track. Bill continued to write and play and eventually resurrected the project with Eric Mills, a young , aspiring guitar player whom Bill had been teaching to play. They came back to Underground studio and recorded It's Our Time with Derek filling in on drums and bass. They returned for many more midnight sessions. Jesse Howes was brought in on one occasion to lay down some tasty bass on the songs Only You & Mystified.  Eventually Andrea returned to the studio as well and the project was back in motion. Derek Remixed the early sessions and a live version of Judgment Day (recorded by Ryan Millet) and filled in instruments on the new stuff. The album was coming along nicely. But bill needed something with spirit to kick it off. the raucous hard luck/redemption romp Sierra Leone was recorded in a rockin' session with many original members and Bobby Bousquet on drums plus much of the local rabble on backup vocals. The Projects first album ...Boulevard of Dreams...was complete. The long strange trip had come full circle ...Though it has only just begun.