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This piece I wrote on Christmas morning at 5a.m. My gift to you Stephen Blake Smith 7/29/1985--2/10/2011. RIP Baby Boy.

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Well, the wheels are well and truly rolling for the new F.O.H. release. Again, we're releasing a complete double CD album on CD rather than via download. (As an aside, 'pick your own' downloads of F.O.H. material are in the planning stages, but that's some months away.) We're finalising the design, CD and packaging layout, production schedule and artwork (more hip and groovy Cal Schenkel for those of you that like his work). We don't have a release date yet.... but we are trying to tie this o...Read more

In the last 20 minutes, my new download-only album "Crackpot" has risen from Number Three to the Number One position on the Amazon.com Hot New Releases In Psychedelic Rock Chart.

My new album "Crackpot" is currently Number 3 on Amazon.com's Psychedelic Rock Chart. It's fun and I'm glad folks seem to be enjoying it! Thanks, Tom Grose

I'm just back from a week of rehearsing in Cardiff, working with a great dancer getting ready for my next series of concerts. I've comissioned Welsh composer, Chris Painter, to write a work for solo clarinet player and dancer based on Welsh mythological character from the Mabinogi, Taliesin. Taliesin began life as Gwion Bach, a servant to the enchantress Ceridwen. Ceridwen had a beautiful daughter and an ugly son named Morfran, whose appearance no magic could cure....Read more