Eric Likkel

The Hat with the Grin and the Chuckle

By Ben Thomas (US)

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Promise of Morning; Sonia��s Mask; The Hat with the Grin and the Chuckle; Eric��s Vals; Other Afternoons; An Unapologetic Shift of Perspective; Valley Shroud; The Second Brick.

Ben Thomas Tango Project: The Hat with the Grin and the Chuckle

by Jack Bowers
September 7, 2025

On The Hat with the Grin and the Chuckle, his sixth recording as leader of the Tango Project, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Thomas once again invites his audience to put on their dancing shoes and sway to Argentina's unique and emblematic musical genre. In doing so, he affirms that there is far more than one way ...

Eric's Vals

September 7, 2025

Album: The Hat with the Grin and the Chuckle
By Ben Thomas (US)
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:47

Eternal Aporia

By Ben Thomas (US)

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Tangent 7; Safeguards; Eternal Aporia; Blood Dimmed Tide; Flights Without Air; A Wistful Eschaton; Little Birds; Flowers of Rage; Tangent 5; The Space Between; We Were Never Perfect; Something Ventured.

Ben Thomas: Eternal Aporia

by Jane Kozhevnikova
June 18, 2022

For some people, tango means the dance with a stereotypical red rose between the teeth. For Ben Thomas, a percussionist and bandoneonist from Seattle, tango is much more than that: it has been an important part of his life for at least fifteen years before the 2022 release of Eternal Aporia. The album includes twelve of ...

Tangent 7

December 20, 2021

Album: Eternal Aporia
By Ben Thomas (US)
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 03:00