This song is a byproduct of boredom in its purest form. Sometimes I find myself in a real rut with the direction my composing is going, so I’ll force myself to sit down and arrange whatever comes out of my brain first. I’ve always loved “Hall of the Mountain King,” so I figured I’d slaughter it by converting it into MIDI with a groovy drumbeat and strange background synth instruments. Grieg would definitely kill me if he heard this…
Truth be told, much of the percussion in this song came into existence via random mouse-clicking. At the time I wrote this piece, I was totally frustrated by the way my percussion tracks had all started to sound the same…so I resolved to write a percussion track unlike anything else I’d ever done. Several hundred mouse clicks later, the first rendition of “Lost Islands” was born…