Tom Kazas (born 1965 in
Sydney
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,
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) is a composer/songwriter, record producer/sound engineer, film maker, broadcast operator and a post-utopian.
He was the singer, guitarist, songwriter/composer of the Australian
psychedelic rock
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group
The Moffs (band) (1984–1989), that garnered international underground attention in 1985 with their song "Another Day in the Sun".
He continues to produce varied music from rock (Sisyphus Happy) to ambience (Verdigris) to experimental electronica (Argot).
He has composed for theatre, including the 1999 staging of "The Wound", directed by Lex Marinos.
He was the composer and arranger for the Greek Jazz band Xitzaz.
He has produced albums for
T J Eckleberg,
Magic Lunchbox,
Metabass'n'Breath
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,
Tiny Tim, and
You Am I
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.
He composed the soundtrack for "The Ifs of Language", a short film by
Peter Lyssiotis and Michael Karris which was a finalist in the 2002 Dendy Short Film Festival.
He has made several music videos and short films, including the 2009 16 minute cinema poem 'The Topologist'.
Discography
Solo albums
* Deliquesence ''1989'' (
Third Eye Records)
* Book of Saturday ''1993'' (Saturday Records)
* Tom Kazas ''1995'' (Ravenswood Records)
* Saint or Fool ''1997'' (Hitch Hyke Records)
* Telemetry ''2003'' (TKMusic)
* Fleeting Eternities ''2006'' (TKMusic)
* Verdigris ''2011'' (TKMusic)
* Melbn Pyxis ep ''2012'' (TKMusic)
* Sisyphus Happy ep ''2013'' (TKMusic)
* Manoeuvres 1995-2005 ''2015'' (TKMusic)
* Argot ''2017'' (TKMusic)
* Love, They Said, With Their Backs To The Precipice ''2019'' (TKMusic)
Compilation Contributions
* The Thing: From Another World vol. 3' CD 16th Issue ''1996'' Athens
* Revolution in a Room: CD37 Audio World Magazine ''1997'' Athens
* Floralia 3 ''1998'' Italy/Netherlands (Mizmaze/WoT4 Records)
Collaborations
* Bob Armstrong and the Navigators ''1990'' (Ravenswood Records)
* In A Sea With by Taj Orange ''1991''
* Shift the Teli by the Ducers ''1996''
* The Wound by Tom Kazas and Others ''1999'' (Sidetrack Theatre)
* Turbulence by Xitzaz ''1999''
* Something Like An Emergency with Josephine Scicluna ''2010''
* Conversation in an Air Raid Shelter with Josephine Scicluna ''2013''
With "The Moffs"
* Another Day in the Sun ''1985''
* Flowers ''1986''
* The Moffs ''1986''
* The Traveller ''1987''
* Labyrinth ''1988''
* Psychedelicatessen ''1994''
* The Moffs: The Collection ''2008''
* A Young Person's Guide ''2018''
* Trails ''2018''
Filmography
* Traces ''9 mins 2002''
* The Topologist ''16 mins 2009''
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* The Room ''2 mins 2009''
* Post Utopian Pause ''5 mins 2009''
* Collection of Cuts ''7 mins 2012''
* Transfusion J Eckleberg Remix''6 mins 2014''
* Condenser ''4 mins 2018''
References
External links
Tom Kazas Website
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Australian male composers
Australian composers
Living people
1965 births