SongVault Artist Profile

T H O M A S M A R K B E N O I T

ORIGINAL FINGERSTYLE ACOUSTIC GUITAR:
MOUNTAIN WEST MUSIC.

THOMAS’S ENTHUSIASM FOR A FINGER STYLE SOUND WAS UNLEASHED WHEN HE FIRST LISTENED TO MICHAEL HEDGES. THE SOUND SPOKE TO HIM AT SOME LEVEL SO DEEP WITHIN HIM, HE CONTINUES TO BE COMPELLED TO CREATE THAT BEAUTY. LIKE ANY OTHER ADDICTION, HE SOUGHT OUT OTHER ARTIST'S SOUND TO HELP SATISFY THAT NEED. THE SEARCH LED HIM TO THE GOLDMINE DISCOVERY OF THE TAYLOR GUITAR SERIES AND NARADA RECORDINGS.

DECADES INTO NURTURING HIS PASSION AND PURSUING THIS DREAM, HE STILL FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO “LABEL” HIS MUSIC. IS IT FOLK, ROCK, NEW AGE, FINGER STYLE, SPIRITUAL, HEALING…? YES, TO ALL OF THE ABOVE. THE ADDAGE THAT “STILL WATERS RUN DEEP” COULD NOT BE MORE APPROPRIATE TO DEFINE THE ART, GIFT AND PASSION OF HIS MUSIC. THE “SPACE” AND BEAUTY THAT HE CREATES FOR HIS LISTENERS WILL KEEP THEM COMING BACK FOR MORE. HIS UNDYING PASSION WILL CERTAINLY KEEP HIM CREATING, GIVING AND SHARING THE GIFT OF HIS MUSIC.

FROM DAYS OF STRUMMING ON THE EASTERN SHORE, WITH THE BEAUTY OF THE OCEAN GUIDING HIM, HIS JOURNEY WEST HAS OPENED HORIZONS OF MAJESTY, BEAUTY AND SPIRIT, THAT HE TRANSLATES INTO SOUNDS TO SOOTHE US ALL.

FROM A LIFETIME IN NJ, TO THE ROAD TRIP TO UTAH, HE CELEBRATED HIS MUSIC IN HIS FIRST CD, RELEASED IN 2002, “SIX STRING CANYON,” AND THEN IN 2005 , HIS SECOND CD ENTITLED “CAVE CREEK” PRODUCED AT SPENCER STUDIOS, IN HEBER, UTAH.
THOMAS'S THIRD CD "OLD TOWN" AND FOURTH CD "A REVELATION OF SORTS" WERE BOTH RELEASED IN JUNE OF 2008. BOTH PRODUCED BY MARK TOWNER WILLIAMS OF ANDROMEDA DISKS RECORDED AT SQUADRON 8 STUDIOS IN MIDWAY, UT.
ALSO LOOK FOR "SIXES' BY FALL '08 ALSO PRODUCED BY MARK TOWNER WILLIAMS. "SIXES" IS THOMAS'S FIRST VOCAL CD.