Photos By: Mark Geisel
Live review and info about his new EP.
A Tuesday night in st Kilda had me venture out to the Veludo Bar to see a solo performance from JOHN “JT " TOMAINO. Having read great reviews about JT (as I’ll call him too) I thought I’d check it out for myself. JT recorded the EP with care and love in Scott Matthews’s boutique personal studio in San Francisco using analogue gear which brought about a non glitzy appeal to the EP. JT is very passionate earthy person, who could talk about his music forever, nothing wrong with that though! Many punters turned out tonight to sit and enjoy the solo show. I must say I enjoyed the gig and when I listened to the EP I had the feeling that seeing JT with band would be excellent. The EP treats us to JT’s melodic voice and balances it with keyboards, violin, percussion and back up singers, a very radio friendly EP with great potential. His voice live reminded me of Cat Stevens, singing with passion and showing us just how organic his music is. The type of sound could be said to be classic folk/pop.
The night started with the tune ‘Force of Habit’ which is a new song then followed with ‘blue tune’ from the new EP. After these songs finished JT realised some mixing was sought (yep, guitar was a little loud!). This definitely helped the rest of the set. More songs in the set were ‘Watching the Detectives’ an Elvis Costello cover which sounded very much like Costello. A cover of the Leonard Cohen classic ‘hallelujah’ was beautifully covered. A song called ‘scarecrow’ which is also off the new EP was a heart felt song about betrayal. The last few songs off the new EP were ‘how far is heaven’ (on the Ep this song has guitar loops that really perfect the song) and ‘as good a times as any’ which was a faster track to end on.
The EP is available on itunes and will be distributed across many countries very soon.
A Tuesday night in st Kilda had me venture out to the Veludo Bar to see a solo performance from JOHN “JT " TOMAINO. Having read great reviews about JT (as I’ll call him too) I thought I’d check it out for myself. JT recorded the EP with care and love in Scott Matthews’s boutique personal studio in San Francisco using analogue gear which brought about a non glitzy appeal to the EP. JT is very passionate earthy person, who could talk about his music forever, nothing wrong with that though! Many punters turned out tonight to sit and enjoy the solo show. I must say I enjoyed the gig and when I listened to the EP I had the feeling that seeing JT with band would be excellent. The EP treats us to JT’s melodic voice and balances it with keyboards, violin, percussion and back up singers, a very radio friendly EP with great potential. His voice live reminded me of Cat Stevens, singing with passion and showing us just how organic his music is. The type of sound could be said to be classic folk/pop.
The night started with the tune ‘Force of Habit’ which is a new song then followed with ‘blue tune’ from the new EP. After these songs finished JT realised some mixing was sought (yep, guitar was a little loud!). This definitely helped the rest of the set. More songs in the set were ‘Watching the Detectives’ an Elvis Costello cover which sounded very much like Costello. A cover of the Leonard Cohen classic ‘hallelujah’ was beautifully covered. A song called ‘scarecrow’ which is also off the new EP was a heart felt song about betrayal. The last few songs off the new EP were ‘how far is heaven’ (on the Ep this song has guitar loops that really perfect the song) and ‘as good a times as any’ which was a faster track to end on.
The EP is available on itunes and will be distributed across many countries very soon.
keep an eye on his myspace for when he is out and about next!
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