Tom R - guitar, vocals, foot-stomping, with collaborators including Dangerous DamienImmigration (tabla / percussion), Art Terry (accordian and piano), Joe Pineapple (bass), Shadow (harmonica), Tony Flamingo (tuba), Guest Speaker (drums / percussion), Huey Gower (cello), and more...
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Influences
Mississippi Fred McDowell, the Georgia Sea Islands Singers, Italian shoes.
Tom Rodwell and Storehouse perform wildly original, pastiche-free improvisations drawn from obscure blues, gospel and calypso sources - housewrecking blues, spirituals and otherworldly roots. Always fresh, no bullshit, proper. Touring locations since 2003 have included New Zealand, the UK, Switzerland, the USA, Holland and soon your town.
The recordings above have no overdubs or edits or effects of any kind. The songs have no fixed arrangements and are tailor-made for the moment and the evening. "The only content of this music is the feeling," - TR.
QUOTES: "Tom Rodwell is Sheffield's answer to Lightnin' Hopkins," - NME. "Rodwell manages to eschew the clices that beset blues music. By turns wild, angry, hypnotic and sensual, it's as uncompromising as it is funky and some of the best live music I've seen." Blues in London. "Serving up eclectic, foot-stompin' alt.blues and visceral neo-spirituals" - Time Out May 2009. "Thanks for making my job a lot harder, man. I was gonna go out there and play a bunch of bullshit, now I actually gotta go do something." - Otis Taylor. "Psychotic gospel music," - Blues in Britain. "I danced so much I can now hardly walk, thanks so much," - DJ Sophie Toes. "The most blistering one man set we've seen," - Gigwise. "Punishing," Sheffield Telegraph. "Raw, avant-garde improvisations," - Metro (NZ). "Real groove, no pretension, zero bullshit, that is rare it seems." - Michael Pickett (Juno Award winner). "Refreshingly different, very genuine and unforced and with a seriously juicy groove," - Giles Hedley and the Aviators. "Been a while since anyone's heard a song quite like that," - BBC World Service, The Beat. "You smooth bastard," - someone in Deptford, London 2008.
Sessions recorded on the following formats: hard disc, wax cylinder, 1-inch reel to reel tape, cassette, dictaphone, telephone answering machine, and soon straight to acetate.
'Merchandisable manifestations' - i.e. CDs and stuff - are soon available from somewhere or other near you, but quite often available at shows.
Below, TR (solo) jamming on the Junior Kimbrough tune "Done Got Old", live at Uncle Sam's, Dalston, London, December 2nd 2006. Co-starring the 149 bus. Filmed by: Kungadred
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....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our third LP release...
"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters.
Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...
The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...
Enjoying this music you have going here!!! Will try to get along to a gig, just like we all should!! Peace, good luck, and thanks for seeking me out, John.
Hi mate, Yeah me and the bassist are coming back up on the 4th of march to play the Green Room. We are doing a two piece Ableton live assisted loop fest!
