the shark is discarded after the fins are cut off for the lucrative soup market. After a month of research, Gray came up with the theme and lyrics, then the music. The song, "The Last Shark", is sung from the perspective of "the last shark" and hopes "to warn, educate, and change attitudes to the demonization of sharks". The song is to be used for a video to campaign to reduce "finning". The project claims sharks will be virtually extinct within 20 years and marine ecosystems will collapse. Written as melancholy lament at the demise of the last shark in jazz standard style on guitar and piano, Gray sang and played a solo guitar version live on air during a radio interview at Tokyo INTER FM in February 2016, cautioning listeners of the dangers of eating "fukahire" shark fin soup. Musical influences As the sole songwriter of the band, Gray describes the songs as "vintage originals", given the influence of all of the older vintage genres on the music: jazz, blues, swing, Latin, folk, country, and rock'n' roll. He ascribes the mainly acoustic nature of the music as being due to living in small musician-unfriendly accommodation in Japan, where electric guitars are not welcome, while maintaining that "electric guitars should not be played with headphones". The eclectic nature of the music was shown in diverse lyrical and thematic choices of Gray during a Desert Island Discs radio show with InterFM DJ, Guy Perryman, in Roppongi in 2015. Future plans The band still aim to make a video for the yoga-themed bossa nova song, "Dirty Downward Dog". The albums The Veil Has Been Lifted, and Prisoner in Paradise, are yet to be finished. Gray states that he is currently looking for a suitable producer to finish the albums. References External links Official website Japanese indie rock groups Musical groups established in 2008 2008 establishments in Japan Musical groups from Tokyo