Tom Skinner with special guests Adrian Utley (Portishead), Hinako Omori and Yaffra.

UK drummer, composer and producer Tom Skinner has been a vital and central figure in the burgeoning underground music scene in London throughout the last 20 years.

Tom is known, among others, as an original member of award winning band Sons Of Kemet alongside band-leader and frequent collaborator Shabaka Hutchings. He is also one third of The Smile, alongside Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood.

Throughout his career, Tom has performed and recorded with notable musicians such as Meshell Ndegeocello, David Byrne, Grace Jones, Jarvis Cocker, Kano, Matthew Herbert, Mulatu Astatke, Floating Points, Beth Orton, Alabaster DePlume, and Zero 7.

He returns with his latest release Kaleidoscopic Visions out via Brownswood Recordings and International Anthem. Kaleidoscopic Visions showcases Skinner drawing together the many threads of his career as one of the UK’s most versatile and free-thinking contemporary musicians. Performing and recording with Sons of Kemet, The Smile, David Byrne, Meshell Ndegeocello, Alabaster DePlume, Floating Points and Peter Zummo as well as a wide range of collaborations across London’s vibrant improvised and electronic scene, Skinner’s diverse touchpoints are brought together in an album of quiet power and profound truths, reflecting his journey so far and opening the road towards what is to come. 

He performs the new album live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with his band Caius Williams, Chelsea Carmichael, Kareem Dayes and Robert Stillman. Plus special guests Adrian Utley (Portishead), Hinako Omori and Yaffra.

Opening is Japanese singer and composer Hinako Omori. Her music offers immersive sonic architectures and environments in which to process and access emotional states through binaural recording or multi-channel installation, across ambient synthesizer and vocal music, classical arrangement and composition. Her textures and many-layered approach to composition have garnered her critical acclaim – debut album “a journey…” was called “remarkable” by Pitchfork and “blissfully restorative” by Loud and Quiet, and “stillness, softness…” was credited as a “deeply enchanting patchwork” by Electronic Sound magazine.