During a recent trip to Italy I bought a thumb piano in Naples. It was a vibrant yellow which only realised later mirrored the Sorrento lemons you see everywhere from shops, restaurants to decorating plates, mugs, ornaments, and clothes.

Sorrento lemons are like lemons on steroids being about three times larger than the ones that get sliced for your G&T or gastropub fish and chips. One restaurant in Pompeii gave them to our group them sliced with salt, pepper and olive oil. An amazing explosion of flavour.

This track was inspired by the warm sound of the thumb piano, the colour of Sorrento lemons, the intense midday heat and the sparkle of sunlight on the Bay of Naples. The sound of cicadas at the end of the track was recorded whilst visiting the historic city of Pompeii.

Sorrento Lemon

paulfcook writes, produces & remixes using acoustic and electronic instruments & field recordings. He is a member of the London/Liverpool group Skylon.

He has been played on Tom Robinson's 6Music show & the Mixtape, Elizabeth Alker's Radio 3 show Unclassified, as well as Exile FM's Monday Night Ride Out & Trust The Doc radio shows.

Paul writes about music for Joyzine.org