James Gales Music

James Gales in front of fairground Waltzer ride

music

2024 ARIA: Best Pop Release nominee
Jessica Mauboy - Yours Forever Warner Music Australia
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • co-producer
  • lyricist
2024
Kita Alexander - Last Christmas Warner Music Australia
  • instrumentalist
  • co-producer
2024
Kita Alexander - True (Acoustic) Warner Music Australia
  • instrumentalist
  • co-producer
2023
Phebe Starr - In My Reach AntiFragile Music
  • instrumentalist
  • co-producer
2023
Jim Nopédie - Keep It Rolling Infloresce Records
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2021
Jim Nopédie - Another Childhood self-released
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2020
Lighthouser - A Kilo Of Feathers self-released
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
  • lyricist
2020
Jim Nopédie - Minus Worlds Hoge Tapes
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2019
Nick Murphy / Chet Faker - Dangerous (Cleopold Remix) Detail Records
  • instrumentalist

stage & screen

2024
with Jean Tong and Lou Wall - Flat Earthers: The Musical musical
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2024
David Tse - Me & Mazzy Melancholy short film
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2024
Hugo Kohler - Flide short film
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2024
Andy Diprose - LILI short film
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2024 Sydney Comedy Fest: Best of the Festival winner
Lou Wall - The Bisexual's Lament cabaret
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2023
ABC TV - WTFAQ television
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2023
Sammy J and Simon Hall (Tripod) - Mangaroo musical
  • instrumentalist
2023
Margot Morales and Simon Hall (Tripod) - Qomolangma musical
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2023
Lou Wall - Vs The Internet cabaret
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2023
Jim Nopédie - Super Monkey Ball Invasion - Original Soundtrack video game
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2022 Green Room Award winner
Margot Morales - In The Likely Event Of Forever cabaret
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2022 Green Room Award nominee
Lou Wall - Bleep Bloop cabaret
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2022
Christopher Chen dir. Jean Tong - Caught stage play
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2021 3x Green Room Award nominee
Lou Wall - That One Time I Joined The Illuminati cabaret
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2020
Margot Morales - The MSO's Perfect End To 2020 cabaret
  • co-composer
2020 3x Green Room Award winner
Lou Wall - Lousical The Musical cabaret
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2020
Jim Nopédie - Super Monkey Ball 651 - Original Soundtrack video game
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2019 Melbourne Comedy Fest: Golden Gibbo award nominee
Margot Morales - Vanity Fair Enough cabaret
  • co-composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
2017 2x Green Room Award nominee
Jean Tong - Romeo Is Not The Only Fruit musical
  • composer
  • instrumentalist
  • producer
  • sound design

about

James Gales portrait at fairground

James Gales is a songwriter, music producer, composer and pianist living in Sydney/Eora, Australia.

From an initial background in classical & jazz piano, he is now active in the diverse worlds of pop, experimental music, and music for screen & stage. He is usually enthusiastic about: video games, cartoons, horror, memory, time, worldbuilding, synthesisers, etc.

Quasi-mentored by Nick Littlemore (Empire of the Sun, PNAU), James co-wrote and co-produced 5 songs on Jessica Mauboy’s album “Yours Forever”, which reached #1 on the Australian Albums chart and is nominated for Best Pop Release at the 2024 ARIA Awards. He has continued this streak with recent songwriting & music production work for Kita Alexander (Warner Music Australia), Phebe Starr (AntiFragile Music) and more.

His experimental music as Jim Nopédie has received attention from KEXP, Triple J, Double J & FBi Radio, as well as a ‘cult’ YouTube following exceeding half a million views. Jim’s most recent album “Keep It Rolling” was released in 2023 on Infloresce Records, inspired by early 2000s ambient & glitch music, and an attitude of lightness towards the present moment. He releases his own pop music as Lighthouser, which has appeared in Liminal Magazine.

James has also collaborated extensively with Lou Wall, Jean Tong & other wonderful theatre-makers on multiple award-winning musicals, comedy shows, cabarets & plays over the years, including Flat Earthers: The Musical (2024), which sold out its original run at Sydney’s Griffin & Hayes Theatre, Romeo Is Not The Only Fruit (2017), nominated for 2 Green Room Awards, and ABC TV’s “WTFAQ” (2023).