GIANCARLO ERRA RELEASES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “A BLUES FOR MY FATHER”
Having announced his new album Departure Tapes and released the first single “Departure Tape”, Giancarlo Erra has revealed his next single and video, the moving and poignantly titled “A Blues For My Father”.
Giancarlo explains the song’s touching significance “After my father’s passing, the mourning brought back the curiosity to go re-look at all the material I wrote during the previous months and I realised I had an album that made a lot of sense. It was dark, experimental for me, confusing but also a discovery, it was a mirror in music of what I was going through. Something was missing, ‘ A Blues For My Father” the only track that I wrote once back home, and the mournful yet peaceful closure”.
The deeply personal video he recalls came about after a visit to his father in hospital “on this particular visit he seemed unusually happy and excited to show me a DVD”, he recalls “The footage was from the 1950’s and of his family and childhood, sadly his memory was failing at this point but once we started watching these moments came back to him, the people and the places, he was laughing and genuinely happy. I love this footage as it shows my father with his siblings and is the perfect mirror for the peaceful and warm meaning of this closure, a closure to an album and to many other things.”
The new studio album Departure Tapes will be released on 2nd July