Morris Pert has been played on NTS in shows including Music To Ease Your Disease, featured first on 25 May 2014. Songs played include Chromosphere.

Best known as a percussionist with Phil Collins in Brand X and as a session musician with Mike Oldfield, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and John Williams. But in reality his musical career spanned a number of genres including being a serious modern classical and avant-garde composer.

He was born in Arbroath, Scotland, in 1947 and after completing music studies in Edinburgh and London toured extensively with the Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamashta's Red Buddha Theatre. He then formed his own group Suntreader.

He has written three symphonies: the first, 'The Rising of the Moon', was premiered in Tokyo under Hiroyuko Iwaki in 1981; the second, 'The Beltane Rites', was commissioned and performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the third, 'The Ancient Kindred', was premiered by the Munich Opera Orchestra under Eberhard Schoener on German television in 1980. 'Ancient Rites' for choir and strings was commissioned and performed in Glasgow by the John Currie Singers.

Morris Pert recorded a number of experimental collaborations using tape and other sources in his studio in North West Scotland where he descirbes his influences as being myth, cosmology and astrophysics. He died in April 2010.