This super fun little track was composed with the very talented Michael Burrows (from Brand Music). It was one of a series of tracks that we created for a Spanish computer games developer in Gibraltar called St.Minver. The tracks were commissioned to help set the sonic scene for different online games and they all ultimately had to loop so there wouldn't be a discernible end to any of the tracks. They were recorded at DreamGoat Studios, with both of us developing the musical ideas - while I sat behind the desk and drove the session.

The aim was to create an electro anime, 'plastic-fantastic' style of aesthetic that would tie in with the stripped back Japanese style of animation. We accomplished this by using sounds that came from samples of old electronic musical toys. 

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This original piece of music was composed and recorded in response to the prompt for August (2025) for the little song club I'm part of with some audio heavy hitters in the US.

The prompt was to create a song that was for a made-up, non-existent culture. We also had to include a home made instrument too.

This was no doubt the most challenging brief yet - and I found the only way to tackle it was to go into audio production composer mode, imagining it to be for a sequence in a film, rather than a song in any traditional sense.

The words are completely made up and it really was like the process of chipping away at a block of marble to reveal the sculpture within. I had no idea what sounds would tumble out of my mouth next. All I knew was that the various lines needed to sonically land in a way that sounded resolved, and that the melodies of those various lines should also be harmonically cohesive so they could be stacked on top of each other.

The vocals that I recorded were pretty much single take positionals, captured only to get the idea down. But as the month busily rolled on, it became clear that I wouldn't have time to do proper takes, so it was a case of making the most of what I had. Of course, as a tribe would be made up of many people with varying abilities to sing in tune, the roughness probably helps to emulate that reality better than had I recorded it in any other way.

While I am very much an advocate of writing tracks that are fundamentally resolved before recording begins, in this case the track drew into focus through the recording process. With each listen through it became clearer what was needed and where.

It was only after I had begun that I got the sense that this might be a tribal chant sung to accompany a rain dance. From there came the idea of the vocals reaching a crescendo as the lightning strikes and the thunder rolls and the deluge begins. It was also complete coincidence that I later reflected on the fact that the Hebrew word for rain is 'geshem'.


The hand-made instrument was the undulating metallic hit after the thunder and lightning. This was a metal mixing bowl that I filled with water and hit with a big metal spoon. I had my laptop setup on the kitchen bench and recorded it with my Shure SM7B via my Universal Audio Volt 2/76.

The other acoustic instruments were the African thumb piano which plucked the opening sequence of three notes, and the Ocarina which I blew in for the strange echoey whistle.

My song-club buddies determined that my track had addressed the challenges of the brief most  faithfully which was a major compliment.

We even determined that our farewell salutation shall now be, 'Ki Go Goshem' :D 





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