Tom Rosenthal‘s music is up there with the best, he’s quite the musical pearl. The news of a new release is met with a euphoric response. That in itself is quite unique for an individual with no manager, record label, publisher, booking agent, PR or PA. His award-winning music videos (which he’s won for Best Video at the European Independent Film Festival 2017), has now amassed well over 30 million views and his Spotify streams well over 60 million…
If you haven’t discovered him yet, then mark my words, you’ll return to him again and again with the aid of email alerts and any other technological resource at your fingers that means that CD will land in your lap early.
Check out his latest video Take Over, from his new album Fenn (yes, I already have a signed copy). A song about a chance meeting between two strangers and a pineapple opens their eyes to the possibilities of what could be…Directed by Hannah Jacobs and animated by Hannah Jacobs, Anne-Lousie Erambert, Daniela Sherer.
Fenn was written and recorded following the birth of his 2nd child (named Fenn) and is his most ambitious project to date. Having previously stuck to simple acoustic instrumentation, here Rosenthal expands into the world of trumpets, choirs, and 1970’s Moogs. Comprised of 15 varied tracks, ‘Fenn’ was composed as an antidote to the troubled and shifting times of 2016. So apart from ‘P.A.S.T.A’, here we find songs ranging from reflections on modern man’s coffee habits (‘What’s Getting You Down, James?’), to songs simply focused on rising above it all (‘Throw The Fear, It Won’t Be Me’).
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