Music

My debut album is coming soon. I have audio links below (coming soon) to un-mastered files to sample the tracks. Tobin Audio is the name of my record label I have set up to release the album.

I have decided to follow the dangerous path of music, a labour of love, no doubt about it. It is going to be a very personal album and maybe a little melancholic but it is informed by my favorite music, classic pop, Jazz, folk and alt rock. The album is also going to be rather unusual in that most of the songs are not in 4/4 std rock time but use different time signatures and harmony ideas to subvert the easy listening content. My goal is to get the album to have similar dynamics to Scott 4 by Scott Walker and Low by David Bowie.

For my material, I sing, play bass (fretless & fretted), electric & 6 & 12 string acoustic guitars, mandolin and piano/keyboards and violin (trying to!). I play drums and percussion too but have enlisted some friends to add their touch to the albums drum tracks. Nathan Persad Check him out !!!!!!! genius plays drums for the most of side a, the pop side and Will Taylor plays on side b the darker and more edgy part of the album. I also have a guest appearance from John (ex Chet).

Superflat Generation:

1. Seize the Day  

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2. Riverfloods (pt1)
3. Riverfloods (pt2)
4. Superflat Generation  

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5. Plastic Folk  

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6. Fibonacci Beats
7. Bedside Conversation  

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8. Don’t Leave Me
9. I Fell  

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10. Out of This
11. Writing in the Dark  

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Personal:
Produced, arranged, mixed and recorded* by James Tobin
Drums for tracks 4, 6, 8, 10 & 11 recorded at the Musicroom in Deptford, Drums and piano for tracks 2, 3, 5 & 9 recorded at Orange and Blue Studios
James Tobin – All vocals, 12 string, electric guitar, classical guitar, piano, mandolin, electric bass, fretless bass, violin, drums, percussion, melodica, harmonica, ukulele, keyboards
Philippa Tobin – flute on Superflat Generation
Will Taylor – drums, tracks 4, 6, 8, 10 & 11
John Gulliet – drums, track 1
Nathan Persad – drums, track 2, 3, 5 & 9
Malcolm Gaynor – congas, track 5
Sandy Bartai – cello, tracks 5, 8, 10 & 11
Ben Tong – sax, track 7
Reika Shang – vox, track 6

Discography:
Superflat Generation (2011) (writer, producer, engineer)
Nathan Persad since 1978 (producer)
Start & Begin, Ceri James (writer, producer, engineer)
Rise and Shine, Christy Fry (performer, bass, mandolin)
Tuesday Heartbreak (writer, producer)
Ladybear (performer, bass & piano)
Paul Fallon (performer, bass & vox)
Angelique Keni (12 string, bass)
Andrea Wilde (bass, b vox, guitar)