Creating the score for Let’s Go Luna was one of the most creative challenges I’ve ever had as a composer for the screen. The show centres around three characters that are part of a travelling circus. Every two episodes they find themselves in a different geographic location where they learn about the culture of a brand new country. Whether it be India, Egypt, Thailand, France, Mexico or Italy, their trusted guide Luna, who is actually the moon and has friends everywhere, meets our trio in each new place and takes them on adventures to discover new things about language, food, traditions and, of course, music.

Let’s Go Luna’s creator, Joe Murray, had a very detailed vision for the stories, images and soundscape in this series. I was very lucky to work closely with my colleagues Kris Kuzdak and Amin Bhatia to bring this score to life and make it as authentic as possible. As one can imagine, this involved a fair bit of research in order to learn about the traditional instruments and musical styles of the many different locations featured over the course of 65 episodes. It’s quite possible I learned just as much as the young viewers that enjoyed the show!