Ernesto Tomasini - Music

Music

In more recent times Tomasini has lent his voice to experimental music projects, quickly establishing himself as an international cult figure. A wide vocal range combined with his melodramatic delivery have interested the press: Frontiers magazine described him as "the most exciting and flamboyant personality to shake up the opera world since Klaus Nomi" and Italian newspaper La Repubblica called him a "prominent figure in avant-garde circuits with his seducing high voice reminiscent of those belonging to evirated singers".
He has sung his repertoire in London venues like the Royal Albert Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, the National Theatre, the London Astoria and the Tate Britain.
On radio he has sung, acted and was interviewed on all the BBC stations, Classic FM, Radio Nacional de España, Radio New Zealand and on major stations in France, Germany, Brazil and the US.
For five years he has been the muse of composer Othon Mataragas. As Othon & Tomasini they have performed in some of Europe's most prestigious concert halls, theatres, museums and churches. They feature on the soundtrack of Bruce LaBruce's film: Otto; or, Up With Dead People, they performed at the show of hat designer Nasir Mazhar for the London Fashion Week (an experience that Ernesto repeated on his own the following year) and were special guests at Marc Almond's London concert at the Roundhouse. In 2010 they made their West End debut and performed at the National Portrait Gallery. Othon's first album, in which Tomasini sings alongside Almond and David Tibet, was released in 2008 on the Durtro Jnana label. 2011 saw the distribution of their first single and music video together and Othon's second album, Impermanence, in which Tomasini and Almond are joined by Camille O'Sullivan as guest singer, on Cherry Red/SFE. In March 2012 the same label published their second single and video.
Ernesto is singer and songwriter of Almagest!, a band he co-founded with Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (of cult Italian band Larsen). Since 2007 they have produced two albums and one music video and have performed in arts festivals in Portugal, Italy and Germany (more recently at the Volksbuehne in Berlin and the Natural History Museum in Turin).
In 2011 he created a new noise music project with dj José Macabra, called Trans4Leben, which opened the Drop Dead Festival in Berlin.
Other collaborations of note are those with Andrew Liles (of Nurse With Wound for whom he has sung at the Sala Apolo in Barcelona, at the Wet Sounds Festival in London, at the PRE Final Fest in Rome and has recorded tracks that became part of his CDs: The Vortex Vault Collection, 2007) and the "father of industrial music" Peter Christopherson (aka Sleazy of Coil, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, with whom he performed in Italy in a live soundtrack for Derek Jarman's The Angelic Conversation).
In 2008 Ernesto appeared as special guest singer, alongside Marc Almond and Antony (of Antony & the Johnsons), at the Current 93 concert in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
A production music track that he recorded with Rolo McGinty of The Woodentops was released in the Summer 2010.