{"product_id":"tom-skinner-kaleidoscopic-visions-lp","title":"Tom Skinner - Kaleidoscopic Visions [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: BWOOD416LP\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5060180327415\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 26 Sep 2025\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited edition black vinyl with insert and Brownswood \/ International Anthem obi-strip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrummer-composer Tom Skinner announces Kaleidoscopic Visions, his second solo album, out 26th September 2025 via Brownswood Recordings and International Anthem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKaleidoscopic Visions unfolds across two distinct sonic landscapes. Side A presents entirely instrumental compositions performed by Skinner's live Bishara band—bassist Tom Herbert, cellist Kareem Dayes, and Robert Stillman and Chelsea Carmichael on various woodwinds and reeds—with electric guitar on two tracks courtesy of Portishead's Adrian Utley. A drummer-composer bringing his wealth of experience to bear on the role of bandleader, Skinner composed primarily on guitar, embracing the freedom that came with writing on his secondary instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese compositions include \"Auster,\" dedicated to late novelist Paul Auster, and \"Margaret Anne,\" which honours Skinner's mother Anne Shasby, a former classical concert pianist prodigy who abandoned her own promising career in the face of systemic misogyny, only to impart on her son what Skinner calls \"the gift of music.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSkinner’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. For Skinner, working with Ndegeocello—whom he first saw at Glastonbury as a teenager in 1994—represents a full-circle moment, indicative of the indirect paths and inspirational detours that have shaped his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRACKLIST:\u003cbr\u003eA1    There's Nothing To Be Scared Of\u003cbr\u003eA2    Auster\u003cbr\u003eA3    Margaret Anne\u003cbr\u003eA4    Kaleidoscopic Visions\u003cbr\u003eA5    MHA\u003cbr\u003eA6    Still (Quiet)\u003cbr\u003eB1    The Maxim (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello)\u003cbr\u003eB2    Extensions 12\u003cbr\u003eB3    Logue (feat. Contour)\u003cbr\u003eB4    See How They Run (feat. Yaffra)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brownswood \/ International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45150966120604,"sku":"BWOOD416LP","price":26.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/l_6019415f-cc69-470a-9b97-11c2f4d8a1f6.jpg?v=1753797640","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/tom-skinner-kaleidoscopic-visions-lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}