Tom Skinner

Skinner is known, among others, as an original member of award winning band Sons Of Kemet alongside band-leader and frequent collaborator Shabaka Hutchings. He is also one third of The Smile, alongside Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood.

2022 saw Skinner release the first album under his name, Voices of Bishara, with his quintet on the acclaimed Chicago-imprint International Anthem in partnership with Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings & Nonesuch, an album with deeply emotional music that contains masses of movement and exceptional harmonic depth and texture.

Throughout his career, he has performed and recorded with notable musicians such as Meshell Ndegeocello, David Byrne, Grace Jones, Jarvis Cocker, Kano, Matthew Herbert, Mulatu Astatke, Floating Points, Beth Orton, Alabaster DePlume and Zero 7.