Irresistible [album & video mix] (2013) written, arranged and produced by Tommy (BMI). Mastered by Chris Graham. From the album Uglier Than You, available on iTunes and Amazon.
Music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5KJUowahLA

Irresistible [album & video mix]

DJ ChrisZ remixes Tommy's midtempo rocker into a dance-o-rama. Featured on "The Tommy Homonym Collection."

A Kind Of Freedom (DJ ChrisZ Remix)

Written by Carole King
Arranged and produced by Tommy
Performed by Tommy with The Solitunes
Strings arranged and performed by TayriO
Mastered by Chris Graham
Licensed for download and streaming through Harry Fox Agency
Available on iTunes 
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id886737563


I Feel The Earth Move

"I Feel the Earth Move" by Tommy Homonym had its world premiere on Alternative 101 radio in Los Angeles on Saturday. Listen to the song in the context of radio chatter (I love it) and a very enthusiastic DJ, Jerry D, here in this audio clip the station sent me. 

I Feel The Earth Move makes debut on Alternative 101 Radio, Los Angeles, June 7, 2014

“What I’ll Do All Day” (2:19)
Written and performed by Tommy Homonym
Arranged and produced by John Allen Watts

Violin: Michelle Alany
Bass: Gustavo Amarante
Guitars: Juancho Herrera
Drums and percussion: Yorgos Maniatis
Mellotron: John Allen Watts

Recorded at The Samurai Hotel and at John’s studio, Astoria, Queens, New York
Mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington at Bass Hit Recording, New York City

Available at iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1060064794?ls=1&app=itunes

and on Spotify, Rdio, Amazon and most other music services

Release Date: 14-Nov-2015
Label: Homonymous
ISRC#: TCACK1501823
UPC: 859716014548
Primary Genre: Pop
Secondary Genre: Alternative
Language: English
BMI 158214

LYRICS

What I’ll Do All Day
(Tommy Homonym)

I don’t know what I’ll do all day.
The hours lie before me 
Like bills I have to pay.
I could sit and cry about you and me,
And that’ll kill an hour or two, or three,
But otherwise, I don’t know what I’ll do all day.

I don’t know how I’ll fall asleep.
Whenever I close my eyes, 
The regrets run deep.
I could go out drinking with some friends,
And they’ll distract me until the evening ends,
But when they’re gone, I don’t know how I’ll fall asleep.

Is my life as a lover over?
Were you the only one forever?
And if you were, what then?
If it never happens again, 
Do I wind up on the heap of unwanted men,
Those unclaimed guys with a void behind their eyes?

I don’t know what’ll happen now.
I want to open up my heart, 
But I don’t remember how.
Yeah, there’s always sex, but after you,
Making loveless love is just making do.
It only brings me down, and I don’t know what’ll happen now,
How I’ll ever sleep,
What I’ll do all day.


What I'll Do All Day

Pleasure Palace (2013) written, arranged and produced by Tommy (BMI). Mastered by Chris Graham. From the album Uglier Than You, available on iTunes and Amazon.

Pleasure Palace

Written by Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe. Arranged and produced by Tommy. Mastered by Chris Graham. From the album The Best of Tommy Homonym, available on iTunes and Amazon.

Let Me In

Written, arranged and produced by Tommy (BMI). Mastered by Chris Graham. From the albums Uglier Than You and The Best of Tommy Homonym, available on iTunes and Amazon. 
Music video here:
https://vimeo.com/229403175/ad370b2b4b

Ride A Wave

Love is Fun (BMI)

Written and performed by Tommy Homonym
Arranged and produced by John Allen Watts

Acoustic bass: Paul Nowinski
Drums: Luiz Ebert
Piano: Klaus Muelller
Alto flute: Jorge Continentino

Mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington at Bass Hit Recording, NYC

Love Is Fun

Like a Ghost (BMI)

Written and performed by Tommy Homonym
Arranged and produced by John Allen Watts

Acoustic bass: Paul Nowinski
Drums: Luiz Ebert
Piano: Klaus Muelller
Flugelhorn: Dan Urness

Mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington at Bass Hit Recording, NYC

Like A Ghost

TOMMY HOMONYM is a late-blooming artist, following the leads of Susan Boyle, Clementine Hunter and Grandma Moses. Tommy specializes in both original songs and inventive covers of pop and rock tunes, which he arranges and produces in collaboration with trusted friends who are real, as opposed to late-blooming, musicians. 

Critics have compared Tommy’s sound to David Bowie, Roxy Music, Leonard Cohen, Chet Baker and Paul Simon.

The reclusive Tommy records his music in an attic in New Jersey, and also claims to inhabit the “milder, more fashionable” end of the Asperger’s continuum. “I want to be like Temple Grandin, but with songs instead of cows,” he says. 

Does this mean he wants to slaughter them mercifully? “No, it means I want to lead them into heaven so they never know what hit them,” he says.

Tommy's single "Irresistible" earned a growing international following, particularly in the United States, Israel, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Tommy dislikes traveling, and is pleased to visit these places virtually, while keeping his shoes on. 

Tommy's first album, Uglier Than You, was released October 1, 2013 and is available for digital download on iTunes and Amazon. Uglier Than You features nine original songs, along with “”What’s There to Eat?”, the opening tune, written by Austin singer-songwriter Christine Cochran. 

More recently, Tommy released “The Best of Tommy Homonym,” featuring songs from Uglier Than You, singles and new tracks. 

Tommy has long nurtured dreams of making music, but only in middle age has the scope of his gift, not to mention the scope of his age, become clear. With the clock ticking, Tommy has now gathered the moxie to emerge as a self-described “idiot savant” of music. “Actually it was accomplished musicians who described me that way,” Tommy says. “Though sometimes they left out the ‘savant’ part.” 

Tommy describes his musical gestation as “a persistent vegetative state. There was all this stuff happening inside, but I couldn’t move.” 

Tommy had repeatedly learned, forgotten, re-learned and re-forgotten how to read music, and as a youngster had struggled with the piano, the guitar, and, most traumatically, the Flutophone, a plastic teaching wind instrument he fumbled with in grade school, and credits with instilling his ongoing dread of touching musical instruments that are not computers. 

Given that dread, the idea of becoming a musician seemed preposterous. So Tommy set the notion aside for decades. “Don’t I have enough problems?” he recalls telling himself. “Do I need a whole new world of ‘No’?”

In the digital age, however, Tommy realized that an idiot savant, and even, indeed, an idiot, had access to the tools needed to realize a musical vision based on his natural ability, using technology to share it with people who actually know what they’re doing, without annoying them more than was necessary.

Tommy keeps his private life for the most part hidden. “It’s small and easy to hide,” he says. He does acknowledge such non-musical interests as mammals of all sizes, yesterday’s newspaper, laundry, and cooking when done by others. 

And what of his name? “Well, Tommy Pseudonym was a little obvious.” But he also liked the idea of homonyms, of words that sound the same and look the same but have two different meanings. “Plus, I like all the o’s, m’s and y’s, and the big ‘HOMO’ in the middle,” he says. 

But Tommy takes his music seriously. “Songs are like emotional stem cells,” he says. “They can go anywhere, become anything, create and be created by anybody. When I’m singing, or listening to someone sing or play, I go to that place where life woke up and found itself.” 

Tommy is rumored to be the alter ego of the writer Tom Sime, who denies the association but openly accepts royalties on Tommy’s behalf.