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‘Tom Fahy’ is an assemblage of musicians headed by multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger Tom Fahy (b. 197?, Galway, IE). Jiang Dan, Rachael Eisley, Zhang Li and Liu Kaige are core members, while other players are drafted for the requirements of particular pieces. Their 70+ album catalogue is the fruit of a 9-year collaboration initiated while the core members were in residence in Honolulu, Hawai’i. To each album, the members bring a myriad of musical competencies.
Jiang Dan (born Jiang Daoming), an only child, was born in Honolulu on June 12, 1971. A master stone-mason, Dan did not assume the role of chief percussionist with Tom Fahy until 1999. However, with his mother, a classically-trained pianist, Dan studied counterpoint, music theory and harmony throughout his childhood. The self-described avant-garde drummer utilizes custom-modified Pearl drum kits.
Rachael Eisley, (b. December 24, 1974), is the only child of Lionel William and Vera (nee Spence) Eisley. She was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, but spent her early years in Montreal, Quebec, where her father was a financier. When Eisley was four years old, her father died of a heart attack while driving in a car with his wife and daughter. After his death, her mother worked as a school teacher. In 1986, when her mother remarried, the family returned to their native St. John’s.
As music was an early passion of Eisley’s, Vera encouraged her daughter to experiment liberally with many instruments, and so it is little wonder that Eisley developed a proficiency with the guitar, keyboard, French horn and Harp. Eisley cites Lonnie Mack, Link Wray and Duane Eddy as early influences on her development as a guitarist. It was chiefly as a guitarist that Eisley approached Fahy while both were studying at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. Later, while collaborating with Fahy, emphasis was placed on her synthesizer work. Eisley was diagnosed with the Epstein-Barr virus in 2002 and was consequently absent from the group until 2007, although she recorded her parts in-absentia. Consequently, in spite of her physical absence, her presence can be felt on virtually every track.
Zhang Li, (b. September 1, 1976), a first-generation Chinese-American, is the daughter of inventor Sammo Li (the group’s 2005 album, ‘Inventor!’ was inspired by the life and work of Mr. Li). Li met Fahy while in attendance at the University of Hawai’i in 1999, where she was studying archaeology. Upon graduation, she began her collaboration with Fahy, writing parts for Bass, Electric Xindi, Oboe, Flute and Zither. Like Dan and Eisley, Li is a self-trained musician.
Liu Kaige, (b. April 8, 1968), a San Francisco native, not only plays the bass cello, violin and gehu, but also serves as the group’s chief technologist and sound engineer. Kaige, once a renowned North Shore pipeline surfer, was introduced to Fahy through his cousin, Jiang Dan. It was Kaige that developed the group’s first sound-stage in Haleiwa on Waialua Bay. There, the group, in its infancy, began to flesh out the sounds that would inform their later works.
Tom Fahy, the group’s leader and chief composer, is a largely self-taught musician, whom took only counterpoint lessons with teacher and composer Aestrid Byrne. Fahy cites Rachmaninoff and Schoenberg as early influences on his piano compositions. And it was at the age of 8 while watching Bruce Brown’s Endless Summer (1966) and listening to the film’s accompanying score performed by The Sandals, that he chose also to pursue the guitar. Formerly a computer and software engineer, Fahy develops software that is employed regularly by the group to augment their compositions.
The group writes and records from their Conception Bay studio, approximately 20 minutes north of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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| | Conceived at Sea ( 216 Escuchas ) | |
| | Trouble at the Abbey ( 215 Escuchas ) | |
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