Tom West

Tom West & Violet Wilder at VAR Gallery Tom West is an Australian singer, guitarist & songwriter performing with a distinctive, androgynous vocal style, finger-picked guitars, stories intricately woven into music for immersive shows. Following a peculiar dream featuring giant stone obelisks on a distant shore, riding a tide of coincidences, hundreds of folk shows and odd-jobs all over the USA in the years post-pandemic West found himself living in Chicago working on a new album of music with producer Ryan Freeland and some of that city's finest jazz musicians. From this unexpected location, far from the hills and surf worn coast of his native Fleurieu Peninsula in SA, he spent two years immersed in writing, recording & producing from a third story bedroom of a historic Chicago brownstone: absorbing the essence of that historic musical city and diving deeper into his compositions and experiences than ever before. 2025 will see West return to the touring circuit with new music and a new look ensemble of musicians to set the stage for his upcoming new music and also celebrate the ten year release anniversary of his popular ‘Oncoming Clouds’ EP. Rolling Stone Australia: “A document to accompany self-reflection and meditation. I’m Livin’ is truly special.” American Songwriter: “A Folk Singer From Outer Space’ somehow offers some soothing solace for the current, permeating state of loss and isolation." Courier Mail: "With his unique voice, storytelling and folk sensibility he could pass for a modern-day Neil Young.” Scenster: “One of the best albums of 2020” The Australian: “His keening, androgynous voice - in an upper register that recalls Brian Aubert, frontman of Los Angeles indie rockers Silversun Pickups - is a joyously tuneful instrument, meshing with his finger-picked guitars, sprinklings of piano, bass and Ringo - like drums. West’s material … is consistently strong, with memorably melodic choruses…” The Vinyl District UK: “Tom’s latest cut is a poignantly earnest slice of indie-folk that is bound to pull at your heartstrings...creating a sound that is undeniably cinematic and powerful.”