Submarine Heirophant from Reptile Dysfunction by Tony Castellano

The premise of this song was to use chords that all contained the same note (the drone heard at the beginning which continues all the way through). The slow building arrangement was inspired by both the Genesis 'Abacab' album outtake "Submarine" and the Steve Hackett track "Shadow of the Heirophant" from his 1975 solo debut 'Voyage of the Acolyte' (hence the title, which was originally just the working title). This is the only song without real drums; the entire thing was recorded on 8 tracks using the drum machine built into my cheap Yamaha keyboard which required only a single track.

Progressive-rock-influenced multi-instrumentalist and singer who has played with many different bands, including The Bud Collins Trio, Holding Pattern, Ludent Tremmel's Gno, The Realm, and Magnetar, on either bass or bass and keyboards. In recent years he has been playing mostly drums, for several different recording projects and also as a member of his sister's band, Anne Castellano & The Smoke.