‘Sometimes the boldest thing a lonely heart can do is to reach out and discover that friendship wasn’t quite as far away as you thought.”
Monster’s Halloween Party takes you on a very imaginative musical journey with their original single ‘There Was A Ghost Who Had No Friends’ which was released on 1st November 2026. It’s a very ambitious piece of music which fuses vintage big band swing, jazz, cinematic orchestration and contemporary orchestral pop to create a very theatrical piece which sounds like a mini animated film. It’s written and composed by Vidura Barrios and arranged by Kento Tachibana. It’s a very different proposition to the standard children’s music formula and it’s all about the sound and the arrangement. There’s a real sense of mystery, warmth and playfulness throughout which gives it a very distinct character, without in any way detracting from the emotional core of the piece.
Right at the heart of it is the story of a rather shy ghost who just wants to be friends but can’t seem to find the nerve to do so. All of that changes when he meets Danny, another very shy and very lonely lad, which gives him the opportunity to actually get to know someone. That’s the core of the song really, it’s about loneliness, vulnerability, kindness and the sheer amount of courage it takes to go out and be seen. The music is superb in terms of backing that story, moving between swing, orchestral and theatrical. There’s a great range of vocal performances from Vidura Barrios, Ollie Parr, Nathan Mulcahy Morgan and Kento Tachibana. Yuri Korolov on flute, Guilherme Queirox on cello and Tachibana on drums and oboe all add a real dimension to the piece. It’s a very well realised piece, very expressive, very dynamic and absolutely cinematic.
“There was a Ghost who had no friends” is such a special song in that it actually delivers a very genuine message, without being at all derivative. It’s a song that you can actually take away from and think about. It’s a song that’s about loneliness and how we can all be lonely at times and how sometimes just one little bit of bravery can be the thing that opens the door to a friendship you never thought you’d have. Monster’s Halloween Party is a song that really defies the name in that it’s not just a Halloween song. It’s a song that you can actually play at any time of year. It was released via Inner Splendour Media and is a song that is very much a song that was written and performed live. It’s a lovely, very imaginative song that actually says something quite human about us all.