Tamas Wells

Tamas Wells is a songwriter based in Melbourne, Australia.

‘To Drink Up the Sea’ is the much-anticipated new album from Australian musician, painter and writer Tamas Wells. The album was produced by Machine Translations’ Greg
J. Walker and combines Wells’ characteristic delicate harmonies with the infectious psychedelic folk sounds Walker is known for. The songs explore memory, loss and belief,
and stories of small towns, sleeping children and fridge magnet elves.

But this story starts earlier.

In 2006 Wells and two friends from Melbourne borrowed some instruments and recording gear and made the low fi single ‘Valder Fields’. The single was well received in
Australia being named Single of the Week in Melbourne’s Beat magazine and gaining significant airplay on national and local broadcasters. Over the following year however, the single became an online hit, receiving millions of streams and downloads around the world. The subsequent album ‘A Plea en Vendredi’ received glowing reviews and public support (reaching number 16 in Japan’s HMV international charts). Wells signed a number of international record deals and toured in Japan, France, China, Singapore and Australia playing with many international artists including Sharon Van Etten.

Following the international success, Wells moved to Myanmar (Burma) to take up a position as an aid worker. He lived in Myanmar for the following seven years. He has since released four more critically acclaimed albums. ‘Two Years in April’ (2008) was recorded by Wells in his apartment in Myanmar using only guitar and a Burmese banjo. Thirty People Away (2010) was produced by Nathan Collins in Hobart, Australia. The 2013 album ‘On the Volatility of the Mind’ (2013) – with the single ‘A Riddle’ - was produced by Nick Huggins in Melbourne, Australia. And his 2017 album ‘The Plantation’ was recorded at Wells' home in Melbourne and by Huggins in Point Lonsdale, Victoria.