Even voorstellen – Tom Skinner – new album ‘kaleidoscopic visions’

TOM SKINNER RELEASES NEW ALBUM 'KALEIDOSCOPIC VISIONS' VIA BROWNSWOOD RECORDINGS ON 26/09
Physical release: 26/09
Digital release: 17/10

Drummer-composer Tom Skinner is set to release Kaleidoscopic Visions, his second solo album, out 26th September 2025 via Brownswood Recordings.

Kaleidoscopic Visions showcases Skinner drawing together the many threads of his career as one of the UK's most versatile and free-thinking contemporary musicians. Performing and recording with Sons of Kemet, The Smile, David Byrne, Meshell Ndegeocello, Alabaster DePlume, Floating Points and Peter Zummo as well as a wide range of collaborations across London's vibrant improvised and electronic scene, Skinner's diverse touchpoints are brought together in an album of quiet power and profound truths, reflecting his journey so far and opening the road towards what is to come.

Where Skinner's 2022 debut Voices of Bishara drew inspiration from Abdul Wadud's 1978 cello masterpiece 'By Myself', Kaleidoscopic Visions shifts toward more personal, fully composed material - brought to life by the intuitive improvisations of both long-time bandmates and new high-profile collaborations. As Piotr Orlov reflects in the album write-up, the result is a record that chronicles "the importance of considering the view from the middle of one's own life, taking stock alongside memories and family, heroes and friends new and old."

Kaleidoscopic Visions unfolds across two distinct sonic landscapes. Side A presents entirely instrumental compositions performed by Skinner's live Bishara band with electric guitar on two tracks courtesy of Portishead's Adrian Utley.

Skinner's musical world opens further on Side B, where a collection of poised vocal collaborations stretch out from jazz and improvisation towards a more dream-like, soulful sound. The centerpiece is "The Maxim," a ten-minute collaboration with Grammy Award-winning Meshell Ndegeocello, a dubby, spacious meditation on life and death, delivered with a free-spirited grace.

The album goes on to feature South Carolina-based singer Contour (Khari Lucas) who appears on the low-lit soul ballad 'Logue', and closes with 'See How They Run', featuring London keyboardist-vocalist Yaffra (Jonathan Geyevu). It is the album's most overtly lyrical track, an articulate exposition of jazz-inflected spoken word that speaks not only to the genre-fluid nature of the music but the breadth of Skinner's palette.

This should come as no surprise. On Kaleidoscopic Visions, one of London's most vital musical figures gives us a sparkling glimpse of the multi-coloured lens through which his unique sound is now refracting.

Kaleidoscopic Visions Tracklist:
There's Nothing To Be Scared Of

Auster

Margaret Anne

Kaleidoscopic Visions

MHA

Still (Quiet)

The Maxim (ft. Meshell Ndegeocello)

Extensions 12

Logue (ft. Contour)

See How They Run (ft. Yaffra)