New Zealand born, Byron Bay residing singer/songwriter Tom Francis has spent much of 2014 performing on street corners and at intimate house concerts. “I’m often asked why I play on the street. For me there’s an honesty and romance to one musician and an instrument. I also enjoy pulling people in when they aren’t expecting it…” It’s this same musical purity and honestly that has shaped Francis’s superb new record From Up There. The singer, who’s been lauded as ‘David Gray meets Damien Rice…’ has created a beautifully soulful work. From Up There is deliberately simple in it’s composition and it’s production. It is music in it’s purest form, hypnotic rhythms, warm lilting keyboards and Francis’s voice weaving stories that take you in and out of light.
