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Tom Brosseau

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Photo by Joby Barnard


Tom’s Bio

Tom Brosseau, an LA-based progressive folk artist and Grand Forks North Dakota native, has a voice that has been called "totally earthbound and at the same time sorta out there in the ether." (NPR's All Things Considered).

Tom Brosseau’s 3rd full-length for FatCat, Posthumous Success, marks a stylistic shift away from the spare, acoustic arrangements of his previous releases. During spring, summer and fall of 2008, Brosseau worked with producers Ethan Rose (Small Sails) and Adam Pierce (Mice Parade, Gregory and the Hawk), and a handful of guest musicians, to flesh and clothe new songs’ sturdy skeletons, lending them breath, presence, and limb-stretching immediacy.

Posthumous Success (named after a chapter from a biography of Albert Camus), is a buoyant, well-crafted, and sprawlingly lovely album. The cover photograph is by Autumn de Wilde.

His earlier album Cavalier, the 2007 travelling companion to Grand Forks was produced by John Parish & recorded in one week in Bristol England. Sunday Times (UK) gives Cavalier 4 stars and Pop CD of the Week honors. Cavalier cover art is inspired by the Black Sparrow Press book covers for John Fante, William Bukowski.

Tom was invited by the Los Angeles Times to be a guest contributor to the Times new music blog, Soundboard, to record his SXSW 2008 experiences. Links to the blog on his site (http://www.tombrosseau.com) or at the LA Times (http://theguide.latimes.com/blogs/soundboard/).

You can see Tom Brosseau, along with many other amazing performers, in the documentary about the Largo. Peek on the Largo website [http://www.largo-la.com/largohome.html]

Tom has performed in UK and Europe with PJ Harvey and John Parish and in Japan with Mice Parade. He has taken the stages at the Fatcat Records 18th anniversary show, the Brighton Festival, the Crossing Border festival in Den Haag NL and Bestival. US tours with Mum, Nickel Creek Mice Parade and Amiina.

Discography: 2009: Posthumous Success , FatCat Records produced by Ethan Rose and Adam Pierce

2008: Tour CD EP, digital release, Fatcat Records

2007: Cavalier, Fatcat Records produced by John Parish

2007: Grand Forks, Loveless Records, produced by Gregory Page and John Doe (X,The Knitters). Duet with John Doe, Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn is featured on 2 tracks.

2006: Empty Houses Are Lonely, Fatcat Records

2006: Tom Brosseau, Loveless Records, re-mastered, re-issue of 1st recording with 5 bonus tracks

2005: What I Mean To Say Is Goodbye, Loveless Records, on the Chicago Tribune's Best Recordings of 2005 list, along with LCD Soundsystem, MIA and Kanye West.

"The voice is unmistakably in its own class -- a high, plaintive, almost feminine cry -- and the beautifully sparse songs sound as if they could've fit on Harry Smith's 'Anthology of American Folk Music.'" --Greg Kot,Chicago Tribune/NPR Top 10 of 2005

Tour Dates

         
Friday, February 12 2023 Loft Downtown Los Angeles CA info: maxamillionmose@yahoo.com    
Wednesday, March 17 SXSW - IODA Party, Emo's Annex Austin TX performing with Angela Correa as Les Shelleys   12:00 PM  
Friday, March 19 18th Floor at Hilton Garden/SXSW Showcase Austin TX 1:00am w/Shelley Short    
Friday, March 19 Papercloud SXSW Day Party Austin TX presented by Austin Sound   4:30 PM  
Saturday, March 20 Largo at the Coronet Los Angeles CA A Song Cycle w/other cool folks    

Availability

2010 Summer/Fall Package/Support