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Drummer, keyboardist, musician… Tom ‘Tomachi’ Atkinson is nothing if not all of these things.

His debut solo album “The Hotel Vermont Sessions” (CREC1026) is the culmination of several years’ worth of pent-up musical drive, held in check while he’s played in a wide variety of bands like Jungle Fungus, HMX, The Roughness, Foghorn, Dam Native, Breaks Co-Op, SJD, and One Million Dollars.
It’s with albums for the last two in that list, SJD and One Million Dollars, that Tomachi has really made his mark in the last few years, but it was a long slow process with both of them. One that eventually lead him to the creation of “The Hotel Vermont Sessions”
Fighting an ever-increasing sense of frustration as the One Million Dollars’ album took a year to complete and the SJD’ album two, Tomachi began working on musical ideas of his own, ones not limited by the confines of a drum riser.
Describing his sound as sexy, hip-hop soul with a jazz-funk twist, Tomachi completed demos for the album in late 2003, including the lead track “Mic Is Mine” featuring longtime friend and collaborator Dam Native, and began firing them out to interested parties. On landing on Capitalrecordings’ desk, a deal was quickly struck and after mastering and an involved sleeve design process, “The Hotel Vermont Sessions” (so named for his Vermont Street home studio) is now ready to go forth and be consumed.