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Considering how difficult it has been to get one cajon player to work on my projects, the chances of getting eight singers to be part of the Psychospherix empire may be just a pipedream but I am going to give it my best shot.

The choir members will not only have to be expert singers (reading music a huge advantage – or at least being able to be guided by it) but they will have their voices manipulated by loopers, harmonisers and vocoders, and contribute to the rhythm section potentially with new instruments of my design – gloves, shakers, holographic drums. For Gatwick on the Orient Express they will also be tour guides as Sussex turns into Eastern Europe.

A viola player has had enough and decides to learn the accordion. He goes to the music store and, after carefully choosing his instrument, has to be restrained by the shop manager.” What are you doing?” says the viola player. The manager replies “whilst you can have any of the instruments off the shelf, I’m afraid the radiator has to stay on the wall”.

If he’d known about it, the musician would have picked a Roland accordion, which, in addition to sounding like a real accordion in all its flavours, can also be a Rhodes or a choir. With the help of the buttons, it can also provide a Hammond accompaniment and a walking double bass. Add a percussionist playing cajon and with rhythmic attachments on his feet and you’ve got a drum kit (but without the volume or floor space). Add a singer … hey, wait a minute, the accordionist sings!

Whilst we are perfectly happy to come out and gig, our specialty is performing selections of songs – mainly but not exclusively jazz – to a video backdrop, using videos that our friends or we have created. These selections (we prefer “projects”) are themed and have included subjects such as cheese, trains, cafes and tango (performed at the Brighton Festival as Brighton Blue).

We are currently rehearsing Gatwick on the Orient Express, and Seven (seven days, seven colours, and seven Cs). Other than that you will find us doing impromptu performances from our balcony on the Brighton seafront.