Rolo Tomassi

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Rolo Tomassi
Rolo Tomassi at the Slottsfjell Festival in 2011 in Tunsberg, Norway. Left to right: Eva Spence, Edward Dutton and James Spence.
Rolo Tomassi at the Slottsfjell Festival in 2011 in Tunsberg , Norway . Left to right: Eva Spence, Edward Dutton and James Spence.
General information
origin Sheffield , England
Genre (s) Mathcore , Jazzcore
founding 2005
Website http://www.rolotomassiband.com/
Current occupation
Eva Spence
Keyboard , vocals
 James Spence
Chris Cayford
Nathan Fairweather
Tom Pitts
former members
Electric bass
 Joseph Thorpe
Electric guitar
 Joe Nicholson
Drums
 Edward Dutton

Rolo Tomassi is an English jazz and mathcore band from Sheffield that was founded in 2005.

history

The band was formed in 2005 and named after a character from the film LA Confidential . It consisted of the singer Eva Spence, her brother the keyboardist James Spence, the guitarist Joe Nicholson, the bassist Joseph Thorpe and the drummer Edward Dutton, with some members playing together for thirteen years. After releasing some self-financed EPs on the Holy Roar Records label, the group signed a contract with Hassle Records in 2008 . In the same year she also played at the Download Festival and went on tour with Gallows and Throats through Great Britain and released her debut album Hysterics . The following year the band played among other things on the Nova Rock . In 2010 the second album Cosmology was recorded with producer Wesley Pentz and released that same year. In addition, the band appeared together with Biffy Clyro on Channel 4 and released the compilation Eternal Youth , which contained 36 previously unreleased songs. In 2010 the band also played at the Slam Dunk Festival and the Soundwave Festival, among others .

Rolo Tomassi on the Candem Crawl in 2010. Left to right: Joe Nicholson, Eva Spence, Edward Dutton, James Spence and Joseph Thorpe

In early 2012, Chris Cayford and Nathan Fairweather joined the cast, replacing Joseph Thorpe and Joe Nicholson. In the same year the next album Astraea followed .

style

According to Allmusic's Jon O'Brien , the band plays a mix of mathcore , acid jazz and progressive hardcore punk . She was influenced by groups like Converge , King Crimson and the saxophonist John Coltrane . Matthias Manthe from laut.de described the music on Hysterics as Spazzcore and Grindcore . The singing here is very varied and remarkably unusual for a woman. In addition to incomprehensible guttural singing, there are occasionally understandable vocal passages. The singing makes “even Jakob Bannon taciturn at night in dark alleys ”. Like the band Trencher , Rolo Tomassi would have influenced the genres Casiogrind and Cybergrind . In addition to elements from noise , the band also incorporated influences from experimental jazz . The song Everything Went Gray as influences of Envy , while Nine was quiet and the rest of The Dillinger Escape Plan sword. According to Melanie Aschenbrenner from Metal Hammer in her review of Hysterics , the bass lines in the song Oh Hello Ghost are very reminiscent of the 1980s. On the one hand, the singing strongly reminds Curve , Kate Bush and Katie Jane Garside , on the other hand there is also aggressive screamo screaming like in the song I Love Turbulence . Towards the end, the song Abraxas is reminiscent of Commodore 64 and Enter Shikari . According to Aschenbrenner, Cosmology is less chaotic and aggressive compared to Hysterics . Eva Spence, however, sounds “more dehumanized than ever”. The title song has a shoegazing influence, but is irrelevant. According to Jenny Kracht from Ox-Fanzine , the music on Hysterics is not for the untrained ears. Eva Spencer's “sugar-sweet little voice” would complement well with the “wonderfully nasty Grindcore grunt”. There are also "shallow, electronic interferences" and " avant - garde -looking Nintendo toothless ". The music is comparable to that of Botch , Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan. Kracht found in a later issue that the band's second album is building on its predecessor, which "left an aftertaste of hysterical post-hardcore ". Nadine Maas Cosmology had also reviewed an issue earlier . She found it difficult to assign the album to a genre and fluctuated between modern hardcore punk, noise and mathcore. In the songs, some of the genre-independent instruments such as a panpipe are used . According to Kracht, Grindcore and Screamo vocals can be heard on Eternal Youth . The music is enriched with elements from hardcore punk, post-rock , ambient , metal , rock , jazz as well as "various driving [n] electronic [n] varieties, including synth and Nintendo baller of the very best".

Discography

Albums

  • Hysterics (album, 2008, Hassle Records )
  • Cosmology (album, 2010, Hassle Records / Holy Roar Records)
  • Astraea (album, 2012, Destination Moon Records)
  • Grievances (album, 2015, Holy Roar Records)
  • Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It (Album, 2018, Holy Roar Records)

Compilations

  • Eternal Youth (Compilation, 2011, Destination Moon Records)

EPs and splits

  • A Split 7 "Record (Split with Mirror! Mirror !, 2006, Speedowax Records )
  • Untitled EP (EP, 2006, Holy Roar Records )
  • Rolo Tomassi (EP, 2007, Danger! Laser! Phaser! Razor! Records)
  • Rolo Tomassi / Cutting Pink with Knives (Split mit Cutting Pink with Knives , 2007, Yehonala Tapes )
  • Throats / Rolo Tomassi (Split with Throats , 2009, Hassle Records)
  • Beatrotter Remix (Split with Please Will , 2009, Tape Club Records )
  • Acoustics / Remixes (EP, 2009, Hassle Records)
  • Cancer Bats / Rolo Tomassi (split with Cancer Bats , 2009, Hassle Records)
  • Party Wounds (EP, 2010, Hassle Records)
  • Rolo Tomassi / Antares (Split with Antares, 2011, Hassle Records / Holy Roar Records)
  • Mount Celestia (EP, 2011, Hassle Records)
  • Old Mystics (EP, 2012, Destination Moon Records)
  • Rolo Tomassi / Stockades (Split with Stockades , 2014, Tangled Talk)

Singles

  • Digital History / Beatrotter (single, 2008, Holy Roar Records)

Demos

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Matthias Manthe: Rolo Tomassi. Hysterics. laut.de , accessed on November 30, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Peter: Rolo Tomassi new in Novarock Billing. festivalisten.de, accessed on November 30, 2014 .
  3. ^ Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology. Discogs , accessed November 30, 2014 .
  4. ^ A b Jon O'Brien: Rolo Tomassi. Allmusic , accessed November 29, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Another Batch Of Bands Added For Slam Dunk Festival. rocksound.tv, accessed on November 30, 2014 .
  6. ^ Soundwave Festival. allmetalfest.com, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  7. ^ Rolo Tomassi Unveil New Track Old Mystics', Announce New Members. diymag.com, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Rolo Tomassi - Astraea. Discogs, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Melanie Aschenbrenner: Rolo Tomassi . Hysterics. In: Metal Hammer . March 2009, p. 105 .
  10. ↑ Melanie Aschenbrenner: Rolo Tomassi . Cosmology. In: Metal Hammer . June 2010, p. 100 .
  11. ↑ Jenny Kracht: ROLO TOMASSI . Hysterics. In: Ox-Fanzine . 80, October / November, 2008 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed November 30, 2014]).
  12. ↑ Jenny Kracht: ROLO TOMASSI . Cosmology. In: Ox-Fanzine . 91, August / September, 2010 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed November 30, 2014]).
  13. ↑ Nadine Maas: ROLO TOMASSI . Cosmology. In: Ox-Fanzine . 90, June / July, 2010 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed November 30, 2014]).
  14. ↑ Jenny Kracht: ROLO TOMASSI . Eternal Youth. In: Ox-Fanzine . 97, August / September, 2011 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed November 30, 2014]).