Biographies

MICHAEL SHIMKUS: COMPOSER/MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST. I APPROACH MUSIC CREATION THROUGH AN INTUITIVE PROCESS...IT IS QUITE AN UN-TRADITIONAL , UNIQUE APPROACH TO MUSIC CREATION. I HAVE LONG BEEN LOOKING FOR...THE SOURCE OF MUSIC....AM TOTALLY FASCINATED BY THE ROLE OF THE HARP IN HUMAN EVOLUTION...IN HUMAN CULTURE.

MY CURIOSITY HAS ALLOWED ME TO EXPLORE MANY GENRES. BLUES, JAZZ, C7W, CLASSICAL MUSIC,CHAMBER MUSIC,SPOKEN WORD,ELECTRONICA, FLAMENCO, MR. SHIMKUS IS AN ALGORYTHMS WORST NIGHTMARE...

AN AUTODIDACT...HE HAS BEEN INSPIRED BY MANY... DIVERGENT PEOPLE. SATIE, ZAPPA, BACH, FURY LEWIS, MIKE OLDFIELD, JOHN AND PAUL, FRANK, DVORAK, V. BACKFARK, PHAROH SANDERS, MC COY TYNER, JOHN MAYALL, RAVI SHANKAR, JOHN MC GLAFHLIN, SWEET HONEY ON THE ROCK, SHAWN PHILIPS, MUDDY WATERS, JONI MITCHEL, SCARLATTI, NINA ROTI, PINK FLOYD, EARLY KING CRIMSON...LES SIX

Lawrence Tome is the King of the River.

You may hear his sound waves dancing over the branching waterways of Chicago.

Lawrence Tome was born and raised in a Norman Rockwell painting.

Lawrence Tome will lull you into a trance before drenching you in lilting melodies and somber stories, packaged neatly in harmonic wrapping paper and taped shut with the sticky side of eras long gone.

Lawrence Tome is most easily seen under the light of a full moon.