Album Notes

Sub Sonic / Super Sonic is Tom's second album. It was recorded in Cape Town, South Africa, and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Track # 1 is about being happy – whatever unpleasantness you were experiencing, is now over, and you’re in the home stretch.

# 2 – partly in response to the crime rate in South Africa. And the title gives a nod to the Lene Lovitch song “My Lucky Number Is One.”

# 3 about the macho front men put up, and the stress that creates.

# 4 is about wanting to wind the clock back to childhood, and have a second chance at life, this time getting things right.

# 5 is a love song, a declaration of loyalty.

# 6 – this type of music is known as “farmer’s music,” and to shiver and to shake is what you do when you’re very excited. Very, very excited.

# 7 is about wishing one could get out of a small town one grew up in, to something more exciting out there, even the traffic jams.

# 8 – a love song for a lover who passed away.

# 9 – once again, a song about stupid macho bravado, how the roles men play get them to live lives they detest.

# 10 – about trying to understand and have compassion for someone else’s troubles.

Sub Sonic / Super Sonic is about the sounds which are either too low or too high for the human ear – something that the outsider in Tom can relate to. For more information, visit www.aboycalledtom.com