Thollem Electric

NEW!
(and in progress)

Illustration By Miles Stryker


"Thollem's keyboard flights unleash cascades of notes of
seemingly impossible velocity and no matter where he goes
tonally, it always seems right, fresh and satisfying. He inhabits
a world uniquely his own, rhythmically, harmonically and
formally. A true original"
- Terry Riley

"supercollider centrifuge of innumerable disasters, a churning
black caldera bespattered with beautiful madness. It seems
beyond the capacity of one human being to contain so much
densely-packed creative energy"
- Tom Djll, Signal To Noise

"Van Dyke Parks, Kurt Weill, Captain Beefheart, Thelonious Monk
and Tom Waits are just a few of the many spiritual godfathers
guiding the hands of this exceptional author. When we compare
the fusion of these sensations to a sort of feverish pagan ritual
and listen with the same attitude of, say, looking at a shaman
dressed like a young Joe Strummer, the honesty of intentions
begins to clash (pun definitely intended) with our previous
ideas pretty hard.. Bizarrely frank stuff."
- Massimo Ricci (Touching Extremes, Italy)

electric piano.
pedals.
voice.

Thollem charges ahead, combining the fervor of his extreme
piano playing with distortion, wah and ring modulator pedals,
creating a fantasy of possibilities that carves the extremes
from ? to !