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March 2025 STUDIO RELEASE:
Hompulon - Album by Tom Spiker, Matt Glassmeyer | Spotify
Contact: [email protected]
Live record release Nov 1, 2025.
Since 2023, Tom Spiker and Matt Glassmeyer have been passing this alien hot potato back and forth between Philadelphia and Nashville studios. Each composed / improvised limb of the result is attached to the whole with marionette thread. Tom plays guitars, drums, synths, drum machines, pedal steel, bass, gonje, and a plastic snail. Matt plays his own approach to the Wurlitzer as well as his reedless tenor and shuitar inventions. He also uses cornet, euphonium, piano, pandeiro, saxophone, violin, percussion and sings.
As a sextet with Tim Keiper (David Byrne, Trevor Dunn) on drums and percussion, Dana Lyn (D'Angelo) on strings, Jon Goldberger (John Zorn, Red Baraat) on guitar, Hompulon has played several packed shows in Brooklyn. As a trio, they add Brian Drye on piano and trombone.
Brian Drye has performed with Hank Roberts Sextet, Medeski Martin and Wood, Steven Bernstein (Sex Mob), Kirk Knuffke Quartet w/ Bill Goodwin and Mark Helias, Michael Formanek’s Ensemble Colossus and the Wood Brothers. Brian has performed with Laurie Anderson and on Bang On A Can's 25th Anniversary Celebration at Lincoln Center with the Asphalt Orchestra. Brian is the original featured trombone soloist on the Tony Award-winning play, Hadestown.
Tom Spiker is a Philadelphia based producer/improviser who has worked with Bilal, Marshall Allen, Kelis, G Love, Low, and John Medeski. Tom has played bass in Calvin Weston's band for many years. Tom's ability to pull music out of both string instruments and a recording studio is effortless.
Matt Glassmeyer makes innovative sounds in groups including Slow Accordion with Oliver Wood, Hompulon with Brooklyn creatives Tim Keiper, Brian Drye, Dana Lyn, Tom Spiker and Jonathan Goldberger, and a trio including Billy Martin. His album "Live Band" features Nashville virtuosos Ethan Jodziewicz, Mark Raudabaugh and JP Ruggieri. Matt is the inventor of the reedless tenor saxophone, new percussion concepts, and has a singular approach to the electric piano.