On Thursday 18 April, Tom Skinner invites Composer, Daegeum soloist and Researcher Hyelim Kim to join him in a live and fully improvised performance.
As composer and daegeum (Korean flute) soloist, Kim has been using pioneering intercultural/interdisciplinary approaches in her music making that is rooted in Korean traditional music.
In April 2022, Skinner and Kim met for the first time, a meeting which would culminate in their first performance…
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On Friday 19 April, Tom Skinner invites Dave Okumu (singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist) and Tom Herbert (Jazz/groove bass player) to join him for a live performance at WORM.
Okumu, Herbert and Skinner have been friends and played together in one form or another for over 30 years. In their formative teenage years, they would congregate to learn how to play the music which had impacted so heavily on their lives, resulting in a distillation of funk, soul, pop, metal, classical, punk, hip hop, dance, folk, electronic…
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On the final day of his residency, Tom Skinner will perform with his band ‘Voices of Bishara’. The album was heralded as one of the best jazz albums of 2022.
Voices of Bishara is Skinner’s first solo studio album under his own name – with inspiration found in the album title of Abdul Wadud’s 1978 album ‘By Myself’, pressed on Wadud’s label, Bishara. Voices of Bishara is a classic sounding record that…
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Where previously MOMO Festival residents mainly featured the alternative indie/post/art rock sound, Tom Skinner will show a different side; the jazz sound that can be felt all too well in a city like Rotterdam. That the Skinner’s residency will be something special is certain, given his many musical successes.