Tómas
Magnús Tómasson´s early attempts at learning
to play musical instruments were already
indicative of his later success as a bass player
and producer, and his bass playing art has been
compared by Kristján Eldjárn and many others to
come close to Sid Vicious and Jaco Pastorius.
At
the tender age of 7 Tómas started to play the
flute, but turned to clarinette later on to join
the school band. His parents purchased him a
guitar at the age of 10, a present in exchange to
get rid of his beatleseque hairstyle at that
time. During his studies of classical guitar he
founded his first band called "Fónin",
and was joined by Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, who
is now an internationally known film director.
After founding another band with the name
"Amor" Tómas was persuaded to buy and
play the bass, the instrument he would ultimately
master. One year later he did his first session
recording, and decided to quit school and become
a professional musician. At the age of 18 he
moved to London to become a session musician and
engineer for icelandic musicians who recorded in
Great Britain. After the first record studio
opened in Iceland Tómas returned and started to
produce albums for other musicians and became a
sound engineer as well.
Among
his achievements as a producer and engineer are
the best-selling records of the band
"EGO" and "Bubbi Morthens",
he has worked with the "Sugarcubes" and
"Megas", as well as having recorded and
mixed Björks Album "Gling-Gló".
Tómas has often worked with Hilmar Örn
Hilmarsson, the renowned film composer and known
to the world for his award-winning music for the
film "Children of Nature". Hilmar and
Tómas just recently cooperated for the live
recording of the band "Sigur Rós", as
well as on the title song of Fridrik Thor
Fridrikssons latest film "Fálkinn",
written and sung by Keith Caradine.
Several
bands were graced by Tómas´ presence throughout
the years, but most regularly you can admire his
dexterity on the bass with his two bands,
"Snillingarnir" and
"Stuđmenn".
He
is the only openly admitting gay person in
"Stuđmenn" and toys with the plan
about developing "Rock against
Heterophobia".
Tómas
only played on a Yamaha BB2000/3000 for the last
15 years.
But
his skills and talents are not not bound on
strings to be the master of the subliminal sound
and quippy undertone, within his extraordinary
versatilities he is also a culinary cooking
artist at its best...
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