Boiling a decade's worth of work down to one CD must be a frustrating yet gratifying process. Frustration likely surrounds the idea of reducing ten years of blood sweat composing and performing into a single package but the recorded evidence of one's artistic growth and reach is the ultimate reward. Such is the case with the music on Now & Then: A Portrait which serves as a survey of Croatian guitarist Ratko Zjaca's output from 2000 to 2011.
