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Early Saturday evening, my daughter and I were among the forty or fifty lucky people who gathered in an apartment at a secret location somewhere in Paris to watch Rivkah perform at the Oliver Peel Session #16.

She even sang the song we wrote together, Splitting The Atom - and it was the first time I'd ever heard it!

It was quite a moving experience to discover one of my songs in a live setting, as opposed to listening to an mp3, and together with the intimate atmosphere of the "concert en appartement", it all added up to make a beautiful moment for me.

Plus, my daughter told me afterwards she was very proud.

Vielen Dank Oliver, merci Rivkah.

• Splitting The Atom

I'm excited to relate that one of my new musical collaborations is beginning to bear fruit.

Rivkah has already sung some lyrics of mine, performing with eliotE & the ritournelles on the lullaby Wheel of Dreams, and just yesterday she informed me that she has now managed to bash out a melody on her toy piano for a new song I wrote specifically for her a couple of months ago.

This is a new way of working for Rivkah, who is more used to writing her own lyrics (and only after coming up with the music first), so I'm honoured that she liked the words I offered her enough to try and make something out of them.

I haven't even heard the result yet, but I know I'll love it - I love everything about her swirling sound - and I'm too excited to keep the news to myself.

The song is called Splitting The Atom.

• Splitting The Atom

You have an actor's face
that you can twist
in many different shapes
and half of what you say
I know is just
a masquerade.
I know it's just
a masquerade.

Last night, you said,
"It's time for leaving"
and then you spread
all our belongings
out upon the table
like a map of where we've been,
a souvenir or two
of what used to be you and me,
a souvenir or two
of what used to be you and me.

Splitting the atom,
breaking up our love...

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This song is performed by Rivkah.