I was kindly asked to submit this track for an upcoming compilation, the theme of which revolves around one's subjective definition of nature. [UPDATE: Nothing came of this compilation unfortunately]
The title of this track derives from my thoughts about a monkey's wedding - typically known as sunshower in many parts of the world.
It turns out that this is a common South African English saying, loaned directly from the Zulu phrase: umshado wezinkawu. I had a hunch that not many people would understand what a monkey's wedding was. So I did a spot of research and discovered a plethora of different animals getting married in the rain all over the world! Fuel for some similarly themed tracks in the future perhaps?
The title I settled on is an English translation of the Afrikaans version: jakkalstrou
- Heavy rain falling against the windows of a Japanese apato in Higashi Koenji, Tokyo
- Heavily processed piano samples from a film (I don't recall which film)
- I have always been fascinated by NASA's cosmic observations – this is apparently the sound of our sun! Rain an sun being the main conceptual theme of this track
- I recorded these bells from outside my office windows in Goodge Street, London. There was a lone man walking down the street ringing bells for no apparent reason...
- More sounds of the sun – pitched for a bit of harmony
- The sounds of ring-tailed lemurs conversing at a zoo or reserve in Birmingham
- Rain continuing against the windows till the end...
