In the summer of 2017, I had the privilege of playing synthesizer on the wildly creative Stern record Missive: Sister Ships with my colleagues Chuck Stern, Toby Driver, and Keith Abrams.
M:SS was in large part a lament for and tribute to Chuck’s late father Peter Stern, who was a friend of mine as well.
The music is beyond description…I’ve often described it as Shostakovich-ian hardcore through a 1990s lens. It is compositional in the best sense, and I am still inspired by Chuck’s unique approach to harmony, after almost two decades of collaboration with him.
The album was released this past August on Sleeping Giant Glossolalia Records on a variety of digital formats and vinyl LP.
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