"Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetae", says Horatius: poets either want to be useful or delight. Why not try to do both?Born hungarian, grown up in Switzerland, spent time in Italy - check his artist name. Early classical piano studies, fell in love with jazz, started playing the drums, bought a synthesizer, got into sequencing music, played in a few groups, started building a studio. Did a couple of records with Sendak, one of the early Swiss rap groups. Then did some soul music with Ashoka. Got into Electronic Music, bought a sampler, a digital mixer, started to work with digital audio. Somehow these things are coming together in these days. Moving back and forth from Grand Piano to the Loop machine, Tomasi sticks with the music and the moment.
Studio and live projects:
Manuel Mind (Mind/Tomasi: "Strange Sounds", Nu Wave Hookers: "Rock to the Beat", both on ATOC)
Kalabrese ("Chicken Fried Rice" on Perlon, "Rumpelzirkus" on Stattmusik, "Alberto" on Phictiv, Live Tour as part of The Rumpelorchestra since 2007)
Big Zis ("Wott nur tanze" and "Wott nur Slow tanze" on "Dörf alles", 2005; Live Tour 2005/06)
Smaller productions, appearances and remixes include Kutti MC ("Euro-Dance" and "Alternative Motherfucker" on "Jugend & Kultur", with Kid-Italy), The Ones (of Flawless fame, "Thinking of You" Rmx), Stephan Eicher ("Noise Boys Song" Rmx). Check the complete discography at tira.ch or at discogs.
Theatre and film:
2007 he did some theatre music and sound design for two Schauspielhaus productions ("The Lover", Pinter/Koralnik, with Marton di Katz; "Fernwärme", Finger/Koralnik)
In 2008 he did the film music for two documentary movies made at Zelig Film School, Italy ("Exile – Wherever I go" and "I have a house")
News:
Big Zis – new album out now!
Kalabrese – new album in summer 2009 and Rumpelorchestra tour
Valentino Tomasi – solo debut 2009
