1.28.20 - Johns song “Brothers” released today!

One of my New Year's resolutions for 2020 is that I want to be more intentional about releasing original music.  Over the last few years, I feel like sometimes I have gotten caught up in wanting to have a perfect marketing plan in place before a release blah blah blah. But I realize that life is way too short for that, and I have way too much music in my soul, and I want to get it out there. 

So that being said, today I am proud to announce the release of my song, “Brothers,” which I believe is one of the best songs I’ve ever written. 

Around March of 2016, my dear friends, Colin Ebeling and Henry Saine asked me to take a crack at writing an end credits song to a short film they were making based on Rinker Buck’s gorgeous novel “Flight of Passage.” I started reading the book shortly after and instantly fell in love with this beautiful true story about two brothers on a “record setting flight across the country, in a 1938 Piper Cub.”   

Immediately I recalled a piano line I had written almost 3 years earlier, but for which I was never able dream up lyrics.  It was clearly the song for this moment. Seldom has inspiration struck me so viscerally.   

I dove in on an afternoon that March, and was able to reconnect with a thousand old memories of growing up with my brother Ryan, in our simple suburb of Temple City, California, during the years before cellphones and the internet, when imagination was everything and an older brother’s companionship was like being friends with a superhero.   

The result is this simple little song.  I hope you enjoy it and that it somehow reconnects you with the memories of your youth, the magic of growing up with siblings, and the innocence of those days.  Thank you for listening. :) 

I want to thank, Colin, and Henry for being brothers and amazing fellow artists I get to create alongside,  Will Collyer for your invaluable friendship and gorgeous piano on this song, Max Mueller for your gorgeous string arrangement, and the absolute pleasure of our friendship, Rinker Buck, for your heart and your story, Jordan Lamoureux for your incredible upright bass work on this track, and last but not least my brother Ryan, for putting up with me all those years and being a friend and a hero always.  

                            John Torres 

                            January 23, 2020

                            Temple City, CA

Listen here

https://youtu.be/slzBa7RF1VU