Bookings/Enquiries Contact
tsfmontreal@gmail.com

TomA Sound Factory (TSF) brings together sample based global beat and melody over synthy riffs.
With a deep appreciation of analogue sounds and field recording, TSF's performances are always an engaging trip from ambient electronica to up-tempo triphop.

Based in Montreal, Canada, he also has established himself as music producer, sound designer and film and multimedia composer.

He's now collaborating with the band https://soundcloud.com/spidermanpterodactyl and the collective https://soundcloud.com/siliconbeatsmtl, he's part of the label https://soundcloud.com/unlogmusic

His last EP titled SUN.WAV was released in 2023.

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“Any goal must have a reason,
Any success is based on a reason, 
Any failure is based on a goal without a reason.”

These are the opening words, feverishly sung in Bambara, of the song “Kènia” on Rokia Traoré’s sixth album, Né So (Home). They are also the best way to encapsulate the Mali-born singer’s strength throughout her nearly 20-year musical journey. The decision to take up music is sometimes guided by a career plan, or a burning urge, or an attempt to gain some recognition, or even the desire to pass on a legacy. But Rokia Traoré’s path is of a different kind, rooted as it has been since she released her first record, Mouneïssa, in the force of will and the movements of her heart.

The fundamental question of choices and responsibilities has always been Traoré’s center of gravity. Before initiating any new project, she asks herself, “Why keep playing music, and how?” This time, she did so with unprecedented urgency. At the time, she found herself in private and public worlds colliding in quite a hazardous manner. 

Traoré had always been a traveler, but in 2009, she decided to move back to Mali. Three years later, she bore witness as her country’s civil war gained terrible momentum. “Experiencing life in a war-torn country was traumatic. I became aware of how naïve I had been without even knowing it,” she confesses. 

While she had left Bamako for a while and moved to Europe with her young son, she also experienced personal issues that threatened her status and legitimacy as a musician. “To make a long story short, being a female artist, especially an African living in Africa, makes you sound not credible as a mother,” she says. Besides, the music industry was facing a crisis, which only added to her distressing doubts, to the point of almost calling it quits, artistically speaking.

The art of picking yourself up and moving on is an implicit theme of Né So. “Everything was falling apart,” she says. “It’s never easy to go through tough times, but it is also what makes you grow, and understand why you cling to certain things and give up on some others. At some point, I realized that I was either going to make it, or just add my name to the long list of female artists who ended badly,” Traoré says. “When people write their biographies, they talk less about their music or talent than their personal rifts. I asked myself, ‘Do I want to end up in that kind of book? Or should I take a chance and get on with it?’ I really had to make some tough decisions. I did, and I’m glad I made the right ones.”


Booking:
valentin@wartiste.com
https://linktr.ee/elisadobrasil




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Born under Brasilia’s burning sun, ELISA DO BRASIL moves to France at a very young age, where she will find a passionated love for electronic musics. Oscillating between the Drum & Bass and Free Party movements, EDB rewrites her own DNA by fully dedicating herself to those sounds, becoming one of their leading faces at the young age of 20. In 1999, she starts a residency at the mythical REX CLUB with her « MASSIVE » parties (welcoming some legendary names such as Laurent Garnier or MC Verse) which will signi cantly shape the future of the French Drum & Bass scene.

Her fury and her visceral talent give her wings for over 10 years (2000-2010), and brings her to participate to some of France’s and Europe’s most importants festivals (Outlook, Dour, Fusion, Garorock, Solidays, Astropolis...). Meanwhile, she releases two mixed CDs on UWE, « Massive Party » in 2004, and « So Massive » in 2006, and two LPs on X-Ray : « First Stroke » (2009) and « Rolling the Dice » in 2012, as well as a track signed on the British label Viper Recordings. She also stands out with her « All Night Long » sets, nights during which she reveals the full extend of her talent behind the decks and sharp selection. In parallel, Elisa Do Brasil develops a strong relationship with extreme sports, and tours with Rip Curl, O’Neill, or at the Natural Games Festival.

She returns in 2013 to launch a new residency at Rex Club with her parties « Forever DNB », where she regularly invites Drum & Bass legends (Andy C, Randall, DJ Marky, DJ Storm, MC GQ) but also some of the scene’s younger talents (Skeptical, Kings Of The Rollers), proud of a new musical identity, closer to her  rst in uences and to the sound-system culture that mean so much to her. With new projects and a forthcoming album, 2017 resonates as Elisa Do Brasil’s comeback to the front of the scene !

LO'JO arrive couvert de voyages, en route pour tous les chemins, les interstices, dans le parfum des capitales, dans le son de la pluie sous le chapiteau d'un vieux cirque tchèque ou bien derrière un feu de la pleine lune.

Created in 1978, IGLOO Records was initially created in Belgium to cater for improvised and electro-acoustic music, but gradually specialised in modern jazz and "chanson française".

IGLOO Records runs a number of separate imprints. IGLOO for Jazz, IGLOOMONDO is home to world-based projects such as Majid Bekkas, Wendo Kolosoy and Manou Gallo. IGLOO+ release left-field material such as Flat Earth Society (band), X-Legged Sally and L'Ensemble Musique Nouvelles. Factice showcases Belgian French-speaking artists such as Mochélan and Tomassenko.

// French abstract/hip hop/beatmaker // 
* "La Fin des Contes" est proche... >> https://orcd.co/la-fin-des-contes

* Label : aymeric@iot-records.org
* Booking FR - Benelux // AFX 
>> sylvain@afx-booking.eu
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Booking International // FACEB
>> faceb.helene@gmail.com

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