Tom R - guitar, vocals, stomp - box, with friends and collaborators including Joe Pineapple - electric swamp bass, floor - percussion, Shadow (harmonica), Tony Flamingo (tuba), Guest Speaker (drums / percussion), Kealan Gell (cello), Nort (drums), Dangerous Damien H.P. (tabla / percussion) and more...
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Influences
Mississippi Fred McDowell, the Georgia Sea Islands Singers, cave art, 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. It's a living. 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. Each concert evolves in a unique way, hopefully reaching different points on the response spectrum. You gotta feel, think and dance. "The only content of this music is the feeling," - TR.
QUOTES: "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. "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). "Very interesting improvisational / experimental music," - Larry Wines, programmer-producer-host, "Tied to the Tracks", syndicated LA Americana radio show. "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. "I thought it was gonna be slash your wrists shit, but you made me feel like I was driving a Cadillac," - someone in Shoreditch.
Sessions recorded on the following formats: hard disc, wax cylinder, 1 inch reel to reel tape, cassette, dictaphone, telephone answering machine, and soon acetate.
'Merchandisable manifestations' - i.e. CDs and stuff - are soon available from somewhere or other near you, but quite often available at shows.
OFFICIAL SITE: www.tomrodwell.com
BOOKING AND MAILING LIST CONTACT: tomrodwell.music@NOSPAMgmail.com
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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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!
Oh sweetie I am such a ditz, it’s all this living in the future whilst stuck in the past in the present that’s confusing me. Still I know Fridays a goer because it’s the weekend in the future that’s yet to pass my way and this fortune teller can see herself in that space. See ya in the future again. D x
