Music that sounds like emotion. The raw expression of exasperation, confusion, anger, love, anxiety, joy and desperation for liberation.
Music that sounds like emotion. The raw expression of exasperation, confusion, anger, love, anxiety, joy and desperation for liberation.
Gary Thomas reached into the souls of the audience and plucked out the riffs of their fears last Sunday at the Albany Cabaret Club.
Thomas is a former Rhodes University student, now a professional musician hot off his recent tour of South Africa.
He has released three albums to critical acclaim and it's no wonder why when the self-produced artist performs.
Wooden Boxes and Thought Hunting, his debut album, was released in 2006.
Thomas took a break and then released Contraption Distoria in 2010 and Midnight Atlas in 2012.
Muse Magazine reviewed Thomas' style as "otherwordly" and the effect of his echoing lyrics is an out-of-body experience, as though listening to the music unaware of your own nakedness.
The heart and passion Thomas puts into his performance is the same passion he gets back when the guitar chords fade out and the audience erupts, grateful for the experience.
Humorous and witty, Thomas is self-effacing and tells stories that bring the audience into his world, speaking easily and without pretention.
"Do you like the stars?" Thomas asked his audience at the Albany Cabaret Club last weekend, gesturing at the small silver glitter-covered stars hanging from the ceiling.
"I put those up. They [the soundteam]say 'soundcheck' and I say 'No, we've got to get the stars up.'"
Thomas is entertaining on stage but this doesn't get in the way of his music. It speaks for itself.
