Biography
As a prime mover on New York’s downtown “No Wave” scene in the early 1980s, Tomas Doncker cut his teeth as a guitarist with such genre-busting groups as James Chance & The Contortions, Defunkt, J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz and many more. Eventually he went international, touring and recording in Japan with jazz pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, and producing studio and songwriting sessions with Boosty Collins, Yoko Ono, jazz saxophonist Sadao Watanabe and Grammy-winning producer Prince Charles Alexander, to name just a few.
Read MoreIn 2008, he produced and released Inside Out, featuring his band with percussionist Daniel Sadownick and bassist Booker King, and followed that with The Mercy Suite, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. In 2010, Doncker performed for the first time in China as a headlining act at the Shanghai Folk Festival, and in front of an audience of over 100,000 as part of the Shanghai World Expo. His latest work as a singer/songwriter and producer embraces a broader musical vision that he likes to call “global soul,” drawing influences from numerous sources, including East and West Africa and the Caribbean.
Small World is the flagship release on his own label, True Groove Records (distributed by Sony/RED), and will be followed by Power of the Trinity, a meditation on the legacy of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, featuring legendary bassist/producer Bill Laswell, Ethiopian singer Ejigayehu “Gigi” Shibabaw, Senegalese percussionist Aiyb Dieng, saxophonist Peter Apfelbaum, electro-dub specialist Dr.Israel, and a host of New York’s finest jazz, funk and rock musicians.
Band Members
- Tomas Doncker
- Damon Duewhite
- Manu Koch
- Selam Woldemariam
- Josh David
- Daniel Sadownick
Current Shows
- “Diabolo Love” by Mando Alvarado, directed by Alfred Preisser, Music Direction & Composition by Tomás Doncker
- “Speak” written by and starring True Groove Artist Marla Mase
Selected Press
- Marla Mase Roars for Peace / Huffington Post / April 22, 2013
- Power of the Trinity / Interview on CNN
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P / Iman Lababedi
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / K Rag
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / Bearly Rambling
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / The Grateful Web
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / The Big Take Over
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / JP’s Music Blog
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / Southern Blues Rock
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / The Blues Music Blog
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / Just Relax Magazine
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / NBHAP
- The Howlin’ Wolf E.P. / The Aural Gatekeeper
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