Fred has worked with Filter since 2014 and has toured USA, India and the UK with ‘Twelfth Night’. Innovative sound and music based theatre company Filter’s cult version of Twelfth Night re-imagines the madness of Illyria as a chaotic gig … Continued
Past Projects
Lisa Knapp
Mojo ‘Folk Album of The Year’ winner and BBC2 Folk Awards nominee Lisa Knapp’s “grippingly fresh… superb” (fRoots) debut album Wild & Unduanted, was at the forefront of the current folk renaissance in Britain. Her vocals “as strange and stirring … Continued
Basquiat Strings
Basquiat Strings is a strings-based jazz quartet led by the cellist Ben Davis. Released in 2007, their first album, entitled simply Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford, was one of the 2007 Mercury Prize nominees. The second incarnation of Basquiat Strings now features: Ben Davis … Continued
Below the Blue Whale
This new duo play improvised compositions using prepared piano – bluetac, rubbers, pegs, coins, plectrums, mallets, and cymbals – filtered through live electronics. Their debut album, ‘Below the Blue Whale’, is out now in digital form on the Loop Collective label. Buy it … Continued
Fred Thomas Jazz Trio
This trio produced sounds that were a synthesis of Fred’s compositions and free improv, exploring those made possible by delving into the bowels of a grand piano – using bluetac, rubbers, pegs, coins, plectrums, mallets, and cymbals – and uniting … Continued
The Memory Band
2013 marks the tenth anniversary of Stephen Cracknell’s project The Memory Band whose first EPs were released on his own Hungry Hill label in 2003, run in conjunction with Spinney Records. Cracknell’s intention from the outset was for the band … Continued
El Ultimo Tango
El Ultimo Tango is a quintet created by Eduardo Vassallo, Principal Cello of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, in 2002. The ensemble consists of flute, sax, cello, bass and piano and it specializes on Argentinian music with particular emphasis on … Continued
Sister Mary & the Choir Boys
Fred Thomas formed this band as MD and pianist with Emine Pirhasen back in 2006. Having started out as a raucous, whisky-drinking blues band, Sister Mary and the Choir Boys gradually evolved into a more original outfit whose second … Continued
Mor Karbasi
Fred Thomas was Musical Director for Mor Karbasi between 2008 & 2011. He wrote the arrangements for Mor’s album “Daughter of the Spring”, released on Harmonia Mundi, as well as playing piano, bass, percussion and cello on the record and … Continued
Fly Agaric
FLY AGARIC draw their inspiration from the Kingdom Fungi, also known as the Mushroom World: these curious growths which appear within a very short space of time, pushing their way up through the undergrowth with great force, containing the heavy … Continued
Thomas/Marshall Duo
The Fred Thomas/Oren Marshall Duo, a London-based F-IRE Collective project, draw on their deep experience in classical, jazz and improv to conceive a music at times highly structured and composed, at others boundless and playful. Their performances employ an abundance … Continued
F-IRE Klang Codex
A New Series presented by F-IRE Collective and Kammer Klang, curated by Fred Thomas. Fourteenth century France was a place of radical musical developments, particularly in rhythmic structures, polyphony and notation systems. The greatest testament to this style is the Chantilly … Continued