Might be a video of him recording his own stuff
Tomas is posting about an interview he has done. Link is below. He confirms it was a month of recording with Noel. Noel is cool when resting but has a “dog’s face” when working haha. He says the studio was Max Heyes’s, who is a close collaborator of Brendan Lynch’s:
zman.co.uk/clients/max-heyes.aspxwww.recordproduction.com/record-producer-features/max-heyes-producer.htmlAlthough Noel is tagged in the Instagram post, you’re probably right that the video is of one of Tomas’s own tunes because he’s promoting his own EP and album in the interview. X
www.elciudadanoweb.com/tomas-crow-del-fondo-del-salon-en-el-superior-de-comercio-de-rosario-a-grabar-con-noel-gallagher/Google Translate:
At the back of the room, hooded, with headphones on, Tomás doesn't care about one in the four-month periods. They just gave him a portable synthesizer and "playing" with it is well worth the long faces of his teachers at the Superior of Commerce in Rosario. She has been recording for years, ever since she put together themes to give to her colleagues on 15th birthday with an old computer with Window XP and the desktop microphone for video calls. Now, Tomás Gagliardo, far but closer than ever to the one who at age 11 dressed up as Brian May for his birthday, answers the phone from the studio in London where he works, and
has just finished a month of recordings with Noel Gallagher. Tomás studied production, engineering and sound design at Point Blank Music School where he met Max Heyes, whom he mentions as his mentor, and through him, Zak Starkey, who in addition to having an extensive musical career is Ringo's son. Starr. He is 25 years old and is known as Tomás Crow and he is about to release his second album.
Tomás does not remember when his relationship with music began. Maybe it was the guitar lessons that he took when he was 5 years old or perhaps because his parents are "addicted to music" and they passed on to him the taste for British artists of the 70s and 80s. "I was born in 95 but my generation I discovered it later ”, he acknowledged.
He was always a freak. For his 11th birthday he dressed up as Brian May and as a "surprise" he gave his teammates a Queen album. And at 15 he went to the parties of his companions and as a gift he had a song recorded by him. “There, between the ages of 13 and 14, I started recording with a computer with Window XP and with the microphone that was for video calls, I recorded the guitar. But for me it sounded good at the time ”, he proudly recounted.
“When I finished school (miraculously) and as I always listen to British music I felt that I had to try some kind of school or scholarship in England. We found a university in London, Point Blank, that's where I decided to go to study, also because there was a kind of half scholarship that they gave me, "he said.
Through the streets of London
At the age of 19, Tomás arrived in London. He had a study grant but didn't know anyone. “I studied and worked on different productions until I finished my degree in music production and sound engineering. I started working at the same faculty. There I met one of my mentors, Max Heyes (known for his work with Paul Weller, Doves, and Massive Attack). He taught me everything I know, both what has to do with the philosophy of music and the technical. He's a genius: he worked with Mick Jagger, with Jamiroquai. I think he is the person I most admire of those close to me today ”, he highlighted.
Change of skin
Finishing the last adjustments of his first EP, Tomás went for a walk in London, had his laptop and stopped in a park to continue working outdoors. Sitting on the grass, in his world, he looked up and was surrounded by more than fifty crows. Far from being scared, he took it as a sign and adopted the name Thomas Crow. “It seemed like an impressive anecdote to me, that I had to do something with it. My last name is quite difficult. I loved Tomás Crow ”.
In 2016, he released his first EP and in 2018 his first full-length. “It's an album that mixes electronic fusion but with all the band moves that I like. I found the point of fusion between my two stages: the band and the electronics. I recorded guitars, bass, drums, vocals. I was alone in a studio, I had to start recording and run to where the drums were before the metronome stopped playing. I was running around the college studio recording things. So it's a layered construction, not a band. It was an experience to learn to record everything on my own. I am re happy with the process and the product ”, he said.
It was that record that led Max, after years of seeing him in the corridors, to tell him: "At some point you are going to mix something of mine or I am going to work for you", while he "took it out of the air." "With the album his opinion about who I was changed a bit and he called me for a session," he recalled.
“I started working in his studio with Brendan Lynch who is the producer who worked for Oasis. Names like Dick Parry, saxophonist for Pink Floyd, passed by. I was there. In a dream, "he said, confessing that he feels lucky but doesn't believe in the concept of" hitting her "or" reaching out. "
“My goal is to live and enjoy music and these experiences. I am glad I am doing this now, and I am super aware of how lucky I am, because I looked for it, but there are also many people who fight it and it is not given. I feel very lucky ”, he analyzed.
After living in London for a while, Tomás returned to Argentina to visit but ended up staying for a while. He worked with Tuta Torres, bassist for Babasónicos, in a production for Florian, Vicentico's son, and with Los Palmeras. He stayed in Rosario, he went to Buenos Aires, he returned to London. Back and without work, Tomás received the call from Max. "I need someone to cover me for a session," he told her. She had to go to a train station in West London and she was going to meet this Zak. “When I saw it, it was a surprise. He looked for me in a black Land Rover. We traveled around the country for a while until we got to the studio ”. It was Zak Starkey, the son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and drummer for The Who, but Tomas didn't know yet.
The job was to produce some drums for Toots and The Maytals. "Toots is the one who invented reggae," said Tomás. And he said that there is a story that indicates that he was Bob Marley's hairdresser and that he gave him the rhythmic basis. “There I said to myself« this is my moment ». I was concentrating so as not to panic ”, he confessed. And he clarified: “Part of my profession is to keep calm at all times. In my work I am the one who holds the session. You have to keep a cool mind because you affect the musicians ”.
When Tomás entered Zak Starkey's studio, "it was a museum of The Beatles." There were original records, photos. One in which Zak posed with Ringo. "Do you know him?" He asked. "He's my dad," Zak replied. "I was already at the console, so I breathed and said:" Yes, you are similar, it seems to me on the nose. " And he laughed, ”he said, maintaining a level of unconsciousness that allows him to work. "It is a balance between being aware of what is happening but maintaining a certain level of unconsciousness to be able to move forward," he clarified.
And it worked: Tomás continues to work with Zak today. “He started calling me until I became his permanent engineer and producer for his label where he records all artists from Jamaica. Iggy Pop songs also pass through that studio, for example. This year we went on tour to Brazil with his band. We tour for a month and a half in January, just before the pandemic catches us. When we returned to the airport there were already people with masks, "he said and recalled that the day they arrived in London, 100 cases were detected in Italy. "It was crazy".
From there came a "fairly quiet" quarantine, he said compared to the one taking place in Argentina. “I could work from home. I have a studio. I started making my new album last year so I had time to move on with that. I would have thought that artists were going to write a lot and that the record industry was going to explode. But talking to stamp people, it didn't happen. Maybe it will pass in a little more time. With the live industry stopped, the hope was that of recording, but no ”, he analyzed.
Tomás thinks about returning to Argentina, although now is not the time yet. “I want to work with artists from there, for my music to settle in Argentina. My new album is in Spanish. Now I am working very well, things are happening.
I've been working with Noel Gallagher on his new material, in this studio, at Max's, ”he said naturally. “Gallagher likes to talk a lot, he's sarcastic. It is very cool when we are resting. When it comes to work, it's a dog's face, you can't go wrong ", he said and acknowledged that in his country he would like to work with Marilina Bertoldi, Barbi Recanati and Daniela Spalla, while also recommending listening to the Rosario band. of Dolls with whom he has done work, Fermín Sagarduy and his brand new album This is Fine.
“With Noel Gallagher they were one of the most pressure but most relaxed sessions that I had in my life. I feel like I grew up and learned that I don't have to overstress myself. It used to happen to me that when I had a session with my idols, the day before I couldn't sleep. Or he was tense in the session. This time, I enjoyed it a lot. I think that I can say that I will arrive there, because I will enjoy it ”, he concluded.
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