My brother, Tony, passed away 25 years ago. Aside from recording music with me and Chris Hora as the eXservants, he did his own thing. He was a music fanatic. He recorded mostly electronic and/or industrial and experimental. This song, “Father’s Day”, has always made me quite emotional. An instrumental soundscape…
sets the shuffling tone til minute 4 almost then the straight metal machine stomp noise-cancels which were awesome then this sweet release into something melancholy resembling bagpipe music (he might of been aiming at a synth guitar sound but bagpipes to me)–very creative. For ‘90 and the command of the digital end of music-making it’s creative and powerful,
they’ve been coming back after 25 years to talk to me too lately.
As I was (and still am), he was a huge fan of bands like Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Klinik, and others. While we, as a band, recorded punk/post-punk songs with some electronic flair, he was an electronic music savant. I learned much from him and I believe it shows in the music I’ve created since his passing.
@drunkenvicar, I recorded this instrumental track in 2019—pretty much a direct result and heavy influence from my brother’s song in the OP. More beat-driven, but I feel my brother in the track…