Challenger Deep from Challenger Deep by Dave Manington's Riff Raff

Challenger Deep is the deepest ocean trench in the world, nearly 11km down at the bottom of the Pacific ocean. This is more of a mood piece, with the low bass riff and slow otherworldly melody trying to capture the strange beauty and calm of the deep ocean. Imagine all the weird fish and creatures unknown to science swimming past in the darkness.
Tom was very pleased I wanted to name the tune and album after him but it has nothing to do with his deep saxophone playing or the fact that he’s deeply challenging – although perhaps the HMS Challenger was named after one of his ancestors ?!

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