Where the Song Comes From

People sometimes ask what kind of music I make. The honest answer is that I'm never quite sure until it's finished. Some tracks are electronic, some lean towards R&B or dance, some drift into something cinematic. The genre changes. What doesn't change is that every one of them started as a moment I couldn't let go of.

Three ways a song arrives

Looking back, the songs have come to me in three waves.

The first were born from real life: things that happened to me, some of them decades ago, some from my army days. I wrote them so that a listener might hear their own story inside mine. The details are mine, but the feelings belong to anyone.

Then came the tracks born from photographs. I travel with a camera, a phone and a drone, and some images refused to stay silent. A view, a street, a light on the water would sit with me until it became a melody.

Lately the songs arrive while I'm doing something else entirely. Walking the dog, sitting in traffic, half-listening to the world. A line appears, then another, and by the time I sit down the song is already halfway written.

A face for every track

Every Monty Sounds track has its own artwork, made for that song and no other. I think of the cover as the photograph the song would take of itself if it could. When a track plays, its picture plays with it.

One of them, Never Walk Alone, is about my dog Monty, the little black-and-white shih tzu who gave this whole network its name and its logo. The name came from my army days long before he did. He simply wears it better.

Just listen

The music has only been released since February 2026, and more than 25,000 people have listened so far. I've stopped chasing the big platforms. The tracks live on SoundCloud and on my own sites, where they can be heard the way I intended.

I'm not asking for likes or comments. If a song stays with you for a while after it ends, that's all I was hoping for.

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