Thomas Truax (pronounced troo-aks) is antifolk's mad scientist, with a
startlingly original act involving strange musical inventions like the
Hornicator and motorized junk-sculpture rhythm contraptions such as the Cadillac
Beatspinner Wheel and it's younger sibling Sister Spinster.
He writes a rich range of songs from gentle, dark romantic lullabies to loud
cartoon music melodramas.
In little more than a year he went from mustering the courage to play his
first solo open-mic performance at Sidewalk Cafe's infamous Antihoot night to
playing packed houses downtown and in Brooklyn. On the heels of stirring things
up overseas with a highly successful UK tour, he released his first full-length
solo CD 'Full Moon Over Wowtown' , a cinematic and often hypnotic ode to the
moon, in early 2003.
He also writes the Wowtown News, an email newsletter that he sends to a
long list of faithful subscribers. Wowtown is a fictional surreal place from
which some of the characters and events in Thomas's imaginative songs originate.
Biography