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 the core drummer of The Smile, with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood.
2022 saw Tom release the first album under his name, Voices of Bishara with his septet on the acclaimed Chicago-imprint International Anthem in partnership with Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings & Nonesuch, an album with deeply emotional music that contains masses of movement and exceptional harmonic depth and texture.
Throughout his career, Tom has performed and recorded with notable musicians such as Grace Jones, Jarvis Cocker, Kano, Matthew Herbert, Mulatu Astatke, Floating Points, The Invisible, Zero 7 to name but a few.