TOMAGA were Valentina Magaletti and Tom Releen. They channeled various forms of multi-instrumentalism into music that moves by turns through industrial, jazz, psychedelia, and minimalism, on its way to somewhere wholly other. Devoted to musical exploration, the duo obsessively deconstructed familiar tropes, looking for the tension that lies between improvisation and form.
Having been invited to tour with such musical luminaries as Wire, Deerhoof, Thurston Moore, FAUST, Lee Ranaldo and Silver Apples since their formation, TOMAGA were truly one of the finest live acts around.
In addition to this, they collaborated with Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate (staging a performance using the artworks of Pedro Reyes), Musee D’art Contemporain De Lyon (contributing a sound object to the Yoko Ono exhibition ‘Lumiere De L’aube’), plus collaborations with legendary French instrument maker Pierre Bastien for Supersonic Festival in Birmingham.
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