Fresh impressive Soul / RnB from London… "Hackney-raised Jerome Thomas isdeclaring the dawning of a new age for Britishsoul music" Working with a live 6 piece band ofassorted ages and musical backgrounds fromrock to classical jazz, Jerome’s sound is a 180degree turn from the direction of travel of UKR&B which has trended towards producerstracks made inside the computer. Jeromecomposes the pieces, then allows space forinteraction with his long term musicalcollaborators. The ‘organic decisions’ open upthe scope of his music as they jam and record.The result is a sound that could been made inthe 70s, the 90s or the 00s. He’s the new bloodof the sophisticated British sound that tracesback to artists like Mica Paris, Soul II Soul andOmar.
Like 1% of the population, he has a stutter, whichdisrupts the fluent flow of his speech. The stutterdisappears when he sings, freeing his voice asit’s transformed into an instrument. As anintroverted, intuitive Pisces, the songwritingprocess lets him explore and express his internalcosmos; “a lot of my songs are like diary entriesaddressed to people I haven’t been able to talkto or speaking about desires I am tooembarrassed to talk about”. Jerome describeshis sound using the acronym FOE, standing for“Freedom of Expression” and “Fusion OfEverything”. His music is a space for him to dissolve boundaries and binaries.
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