THOMAS NÖLA

    After dropping out of art school in Boston and playing keyboard and guitar in the noisy and locally infamous Tori Spelling Fiasco, Thomas Nöla began work on his first film: "Jack", a 2003 no-budget puppet musical. In 2005, he followed this up with a novella and film "The Doctor", and its 2007 prequel "To The Wolves...", always using a no-frills but no-limits production style and typically casts of non-actor friends and fellow artists. In 2009 he began focussing on travelogue film and a foray into sitcoms (2010's "Happy Birthday, Cake Eater).

    Musically, Thomas Nöla and his orchestra debuted with 2006's double-LP film score to "The Doctor" released on Caciocavallo, before launching his own label, Disques de Lapin. Several more song-based folk, ragtime and cabaret-influence albums followed with 2006's "So Long, Lale Andersen" and 2007's "Vanity is a Sin!", before a more psychedelic turn took place in 2008 with "The Rose-Tinted Monocle".

    After 2007's performance at the Punch Records festival in Leipzig, Germany, he began to branch out with a few international performances in Spain and Mexico, and in 2008 he and O Paradis formed a group named Les Paradisiers.

     Taking a sabbatical to his second home of Ireland and a stay in Morocco, Nöla returned to America to release the French-laden "Très Pathétique", a notably gloomier, yet oddly danceable disc. 2010 brings another change of pace with a sci-fi influenced garage-psych album, "Rainy Day Rainbow People" and a return to feature film-making.

    Nöla has recorded with selected persons of interest such as David E. Williams, Douglas P. of Death in June, Jerome Deppe, O Paradis, Comando Suzie and more.

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