"Publicist is Sebastian Thomson, drum banger of such awesome indie disco staples as Weird War and Trans Am. This new incarnation takes the shimmering sexghost of disco and pummels it into a sleek panther that leaps from shadow to shadow briefly glimpsed in the reflection of disco lights on the effervescent surface of a flute of champagne.
On new 12″, “Momma”, old pal Ian Svenonious replaces the vocoder with his trademark sermon on the flaming mount yelps, he’s the reason that The Make-Up made us bark like spazz-dogs losing all our shit in the middle of the dancefloor, why Weird War sounded like funk beamed from the darkside of a nightmare war-torn planetoid and the reason why Nation of Ulysses sounded like a wall of laser guns tumbling in on us, smoking turret-end-first. B-side “Stone Age” sees Ian hard-wired and assimilated into wobbling synth trajectories, barking a tale of funked-up cavemen through a robotic loud-speaker across an undulating sea of perspex disco and the kind of kinetic drumming that makes all the items in your room come alive and bump to the sound before spontaneously exploding like glitter bombs."
- 20 Jazz Funk Greats, Tuesday, June 23, 2009
"...while I was trying to find words to describe the Publicist sound, I think I should just quote some of the comments from his myspace, where people are like 'your funk is from another planet', 'cosmic sensation' and 'full on instant dance party' and that sums it up better than I ever could. About time for some space funk and putting the 'disco' back into 'discodust' after all!
... this is some of the freshest music I've found in ages."
-discodust
"These songs represent the glorious collision of Trans Am and The Make-Up, though it's certainly not initial contact. Sebastian Thomson and Ian Svenonius have been making joyful noise together for some time as members of Weird War, but Publicist is Sebastian's baby, a solo drum and electronics project that focuses on the beauty of the beat. Brother Svenonius throws in his two cents on top of Thomson's polyrhythmic attack, and the listener wins."
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You may recognize Publicist as Sebastian Thomson from other acts such as Trans Am and Weird War. He loves making music with his friends but he also loves to make music on his own. As he once said "I love making music with my friends but I also love making music on my own." Publicist exists somewhere between DC, NYC, and London.
Publicist plays on the floor, not on stage, he is of the people and for the people. If Publicist plays before 12 midnight he magically turns into one of the opening acts.
He has recently collaborated with collaborator Ian F. Svenonius on new tracks and they just finished a European tour.
Publicist is now touring and playing all over Europe... and is always ready for more.
hey man, sorry i couldn't come friday to ljubljana, i found out in the afternoon we're going there saturday morning, they messed up on letting me know what's the plan :) anyway, hope it was a good show in ljubljana and the e-mail turned out to be the best case scenario :)
PUBLICIST (Sebastian Thomson of Trans Am) + Splash Wave - mercredi 7 octobre - 1929 RENNES.
Projet solo de Sebastian Thomson (Trans Am, Weird War, ex-Dead Kids), Publicist est la suite logique de ce que Trans Am a pu expérimenter de plus dansant. véritable homme-machine aux pectoraux apparents, il sera là pour vous faire danser avec ses tubes imparables. ------------- Avant cela, Splash Wave , duo synthétique aux allures de collision temporelle entre l'Allemagne de Michael Rother & Klaus Dinger (Neu !) et la Californie era-80's des Bones Brigade et de John Carpenter tentera de faire bonne figure avant le géant Américain.
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