Playback 0039

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, October 7 from 7pm for the thirty-ninth edition of Playback with Tomin. Tomin is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, bioinformatician, and poet from Brooklyn, New York. His primary instruments are the flute, trumpet, and alto clarinet, and he participates in the creative music scene as a performer, improvisor, composer, and fan. Outside of music, he works in computational genetics, with a focus on oncology. Among other accolades for his first ensemble album, A Willed and Conscious Balance, The New York City Jazz Record awarded Tomin "Up-and-Comer of the Year," "Best Debut," and "Best New Release of the Year, Honorable Mention." Writing about his solo compilation, Flores Para Verene / Cantos para Caramina, which came out a few months earlier, Downbeat Magazine said, "Tomin-Perea Chamblee's debut is an intimate dialogue between past and present, loss and life, woven through a deeply personal and richly layered musical tapestry.” Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.