Sam Thomas
Biography

Sam Thomas is a composer, instrumental recording artist, and producer who plays drums, percussion, guitar, piano and bass. As well as playing his own music and in bands, Sam's love for huge, epic music and the mix-media experience suggests that writing and recording for film could become a prominent aspect of his future musical creations.

Having started percussion/drum lessons from the tender age of 4, he shortly afterwards incorporated piano into his musical palette. He continued to play throughout his childhood in orchestra, wind band, swing band, brass band, blues bands, and musicals, and also sung in the choir. At the age of 15, (by now already a relative musical veteran!) Sam started to teach himself guitar, starting his my own cover bands, before writing with friends in a rock band called Lansdowne Circus. He started recording all his own material at home while still at school, on the limited equipment he had, writing all the parts in his head and playing all the instruments.

Sam got a music scholarship to the University of Westminster to study Commercial Music. This primarily gave him the opportunity to build up a large portfolio of recordings in his spare time around lectures, but also to do more soundtrack material for other students. He started playing guitar for a band called I Am One Project, and got other members of the band to perform vocals over an early 18-minute instrumental composition he recorded at Uni - performed under the band name Samandiam.

While Sam always records all the instruments on his compositions, this makes playing live a little tricky...so he recruited drummer Henry Prince and bassist Louis Bloomfield to help him out. The three of them later started writing as a instrumental collaborative under the band name Saiga. This band is still going, and Sam produced the first Saiga EP which they launched themsleves.

At Uni Sam also recorded a 27-minute instrumental piece, which he decided to give away for free as soundtrack music to production music companies, ad agencies, and directors. Chris Smith - who used to own Final Touch and now owns The Barbershop - was one of those who was impressed by the piece. The first people he introduced Sam to were the Benedicts, of Just Music, who snapped Sam up and the 27-minute track is now being re-vamped to feature on his debut album for the label.