Thomas Truax

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Substance Music presents ......

"The Return of Thomas Truax " Only UK date !!

"Enthralling, mind-blowingly original and totally bonkers : just a few ways to describe Thomas Truax and his creative circus of the wonderfully surreal." -Alex Flynn, Brighton Noise

Originally from New York City, but now temporarily based outside Düsseldorf, Germany, Thomas Truax (pronounced troo-aks) travels the world performing with his "band" of bizarre self-made Tim Burtonesque instruments including a motorized drum machine made of bike wheels called 'Mother Superior' and a pimped-up Gramophone called 'The Hornicator', as well as his venerable resonator guitar 'Hank'.
More than just an inventor and entertainer, Truax crafts rich, poetically evocative songs about insects, trees, technology and various reasons 'Why Dogs Howl at The Moon'. Notable supporters and collaborators include Jarvis Cocker, Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione (Dresden Dolls/Violent Femmes) and the author Terry Pratchett, who recently stated that if he were invited back on the BBC's 'Desert Island Disks', he would include a Truax album in his top choices.

Five of his six albums are self-written, but a meeting with director David Lynch resulted in cleverly-titled and highly acclaimed 2009 covers album 'Songs From The Films Of David Lynch'.

This year Thomas turned down an invitation to perform on 'America's Got Talent', but accepted another to score and perform in a major stage production of 'Peer Gynt' by award winning director Kay Voges in Dortmund, Germany. Critical reaction has been so strong for the play and it's music that an album, 'Trolls, Girls, and Lullabies', is planned for release in early 2014. A brand new instrument, 'The Saxogramophone' is featured.

"When he performs, it is a spectacle - the originality and seeming impossibility of what he does is much of the appeal." -The Guardian

"Truax is shaping up nicely as one of the great rock eccentrics" - Uncut

"Genius." -NME

"His gigs are extraordinary, like cabaret nights fizzing with showmanship." -Q