Cask J. Thomson

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Cask J. Thomson
Origin Falkirk, Scotland
Genres
Occupation(s)Musician
songwriter
producer
author
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizers
Years active2005–present
Website www.caskthomson.com

Cask J. Thomson is a Scottish-born Australian producer, composer, musician, graphic designer and author [1]

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He has released 3 albums as Cask. His latest album "Surviving on Borrowed Time" was released exclusively as Direct Stream Digital in 2019, before releasing in other formats worldwide in December [2]

In August 2020, Thomson premiered synth-pop project HELIXIRx. The first single "Gravity" features on the Spotify editorial playlist "Outrun". The single was streamed over 70,000 times during October and was featured in online coverage of the October SpaceX launch. The debut album Authenticity was released in November. [3]

Thomson is a professional graphic designer and runs a book publishing company. [4] [5] [ non-primary source needed ] His independent record label AudioDefine Records has released most of his projects as well as that of Dutch pianist Johan Versk [6]

Biography

Born in Falkirk, Scotland, and based in Queensland, Australia, Cask J. Thomson started performing as a teenager and taught himself guitar, keyboards, drums and how to produce music. Initially focusing on analog recording, Thomson wrote and recorded his debut as Cursed Legacy. The album was recorded live to 7" tape with overdubs and tape loops to simulate a multitrack recording. [7] As a result, the album features hiss and audible tape glitches that were left in during mastering by Jeff Cripps in Sydney. The album was distributed in Australia by Festival Mushroom Records [8] and released independently. [9]

In 2010 Thomson performed as a session guitarist for Sydney band Operator Please and Australian Idol winner Stan Walker during his From the Inside Out promotional tour.

In 2017 he released his first solo album Play it Over and Start Again under Cask. The album features predominantly piano-driven contemporary music but does not stray from the gloomy lyrical and musical content Cursed Legacy features. The first single, "Bedridden (Move Forward)", premiered on Reverbnation where he reached 4th in the Independent Charts [10] [11] followed by a music video for "The Murder".

In July 2018, Cask released "See What Tomorrow Brings". [12] [13] On 1 August 2018 he released his second album, Life is a Terminal Illness. [14] The album received critical acclaim and was released in high resolution Direct Stream Digital [15] [16] Cask released the song "Waited for You" in January 2019 [17] claiming that it was to be used for a future album but "didn't fit".

Cask posted a digital painting on his Instagram in May 2019 with the description "I have news from the conflict zone. 2019. concept album. End transmission". [18] In August, Cask announced the concept album Surviving on Borrowed Time would be released in 2020 [19] The official video and single "Presentiment" premiered after the announcement [20] [21] The album was released exclusively in Direct Stream Digital format in December 2019 before being released worldwide digitally and physically January 2, 2020. [22]

Outside of music, Thomson runs an independent book publishing company and operates a design and marketing firm. [4] [5] His UI and logo designs featured on the Linux distribution Ubuntu [23]

Thomson is an extraterrestrial research enthusiast who, under his publishing house, reissued Taken and Into the Fringe by Dr. Karla Turner. [24] He was announced as a speaker at the Close Encounters conferences in 2019. [25] [26]

Thomson's logo "hourglass" features an empty triangle atop a black triangle. The symbol has been used on all of his releases and major contributions since at least 2010. Cask described the symbol as "an important reminder to me that we are always on the clock". [27] Outside of music, Cask has a collection of Saab cars including the "Wasaabi" that was purchased from Australian series Mighty Car Mods [28] Cask is an outspoken privacy advocate and has written a series of articles on his website encouraging people to DeGoogle amidst privacy concerns and personal experience of automated copyright infringement notices triggering his own music accounts. [29]

Discography

Cask

See also: Cursed Legacy Discography

HELIXIRx

Additional Credits

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References

  1. ↑ "Amazon.com: Cask J. Thomson: Books". Amazon. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Surviving on Borrowed Time".
  3. ↑ "HELIXIRx – Authenticity (2020, 320 KBPS, File)". Discogs . 6 November 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Cask Thomson – Steve Clayton Official Blog". steveclayton.com. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Cask J. Thomson (@Cask_Thomson)". Twitter. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Choosing Favourites". NativeDSD Music. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  7. ↑ Cursed Legacy liner notes.
  8. ↑ "Festival Mushroom Records". discogs. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  9. ↑ Giffin, Brian (4 May 2015). Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal. Lulu.com. ISBN   9780994320612 . Retrieved 11 September 2018– via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "Cask J. Thomson on Instagram: "Cask hits the indie charts in Australia"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  11. ↑ Cask J. Thomson (3 May 2018). "Cask – Bedridden (Move Forward) Official Music Video" . Retrieved 11 September 2018– via YouTube.
  12. ↑ Cask J. Thomson (29 June 2018). "Cask – See What Tomorrow Brings (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)" . Retrieved 11 September 2018– via YouTube.
  13. ↑ Vidani, Peter. "(Cask – See What Tomorrow Brings Born in Scotland,...)". thebandcampdiaries. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "Cask (3) – Life Is A Terminal Illness". discogs. August 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "Cask: "Life is a Terminal Illness" – totally addictive listening". TunedLoud. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  16. ↑ NativeDSD.com. "ADCLIATI Life Is A Terminal Illness - Albums - AudioDefine Records - NativeDSD Music". audiodefine.nativedsd.com. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  17. ↑ "Waited for You". 18 January 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019– via open.spotify.com.
  18. ↑ "2019 - @instacask". www.Instagram.com. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  19. ↑ "CASK on Facebook". Facebook . Archived from the original on 27 April 2022.[ user-generated source ]
  20. ↑ "CASK on Facebook". Facebook . Archived from the original on 27 April 2022.[ user-generated source ]
  21. ↑ "Ivory Studios Music on Facebook". Facebook . Archived from the original on 27 April 2022.[ user-generated source ]
  22. ↑ NativeDSD.com. "ADCSOBT Surviving On Borrowed Time | Albums | NativeDSD Music". www.nativedsd.com. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  23. ↑ "LinkedIn Profile".
  24. ↑ Turner, Karla; et al. (designed by Thomson, Cask J.) (13 September 2013). Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda (2nd ed.). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN   978-1-4904-5908-0.
  25. ↑ "closeencountersconf – Mary Shaw". closeencountersconf. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  26. ↑ "afterlifeexplorers". afterlifeexplorers. Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  27. ↑ Drum Media Australia, 2018
  28. ↑ "Cask J. Thomson on Instagram: "It's honestly hard to fathom that it's been 3 months since my accident. Not a day goes by where I don't smile and think about how damn lucky I was. It's crazy how things work out but I wanted something entirely opposite to a clean classic as I lost what was irreplaceable to me. I'm lucky to own what is easily one of the most recognisable Saabs in Australia (For good or bad reasons is up to you) but taking delivery of the Mighty Car Mods Wasaabi is one of the funniest things I've done and it's so good to know that I'll be back doing car shows next year but this time with something aimed at an entirely different audience! @mighycarmods #wasaabi #MCM #mightycarmods"".
  29. ↑ "CaskZone – Producer / Songwriter / Designer / Opportunist".
  30. ↑ "HELIXIRx". Deezer (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  31. ↑ "Empty Triangles (Exclusive NativeDSD Edition)". NativeDSD Music. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  32. ↑ "Into The Stratosphere (Exclusive NativeDSD Edition)". NativeDSD Music. 3 December 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
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