After taking the "Dear Friends" tour all around Japan, Uematsu and crew showed up in the US to kick off E3 2005 in Los Angeles. This show, entitled "More Friends", featured a full orchestra, the rock group "The Black Mages", Rikki, Emiko Shiratori, some opera vocalists, and a big choir from a nearby college. The production was a big deal.

Pointing out that alto nido translates from the Spanish as high nest, Laswell explains that Three flights up implies that you re on your way to a high nest, even if you re not quite there yet. Whereas Through Toledo was intimate and autobiographical for the most part, the EP reflected the transitional time of coming out of it, Laswell explains.