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It's so hard to choose I love all the tracks equally! The heart of the Jito opens with an instrument that samurai used to play called the Biwa. I had never heard of it before and I fell in love with it. In that track the performer Junko Ueda performs the start of a famous piece and then I do an arrangement of it in the orchestra. There's something about including that ancient piece and instrument in the soundtrack that I love.

It's always a great pleasure to work with Tom, he's a great talent and has become a lovely friend and I'm sure we'll do more stuff together in the future

I enjoyed learning about the instruments so much, but it must be the Biwa, it's such special instrument. Check out Junko Ueda performing it. It's ancient but also so rock n roll. Check out the huge plectrum you play it with and pick slides... I think it's super cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYTuSa74gQ

I always made music from when I was a kid. I was in a band with school friends and got interested in sequencing in my late teens. The software is so readily available now days, it's easier to get started. Just make music, find shot films to work on, do fringe theatre, make an album... I think you just have ti start doing stuff. Whats in your studio doesn't matter. YOU can make music with a pen and paper, you can make music with a smart phone... so just get going and the rest will come. Good Luck!

Hanging out with real life astronauts is the coolest thing ever.... I mean really, I can't tell you how lucky I feel. Space Station happened because Tim Peake (The British astronaut) git in touch with me as he was a fan of my work. He asked me to do music for the film he was going to make on the international space station. I went to meet him at Nasa in Houston and was so inspired I said "lets make a show" And so I created the the whole show and the music. I can't wait to get back on the road with it when the pandemic calms down.

I'm ashamed to admit that the work of my contemporaries isn't something that I go back to much. Not for lack of respect or admiration of their work, but my inspirations and references come either from further in the past or from more left-field places.