TIM MOTZER Live from Stars End (1k recordings) Release date: June 14, 2014

Tim Motzer – guitars, electronics

“Like a benevolent spell that refuses to break this hour long set is a work the listener visits, not merely listens to. From wild color and barely controlled chaos, where its sheer strangeness sustains our curiosity, to an odd sonic emptiness Motzer plays lithe and liquid solos with breathtaking ease. Part of the now legendary 3 November 2013 all live music broadcast of STAR’S END Ambient Radio Motzer’s set seems to be more about shaping form than about the playing of ordered notes. In some places the music seems like a self-organizing system – and that once the work gets to a certain level of complexity it goes in its own direction, while elsewhere it is coaxed and guided by the artist in beautiful sonorities, textures and harmonies. While Tim Motzer’s live musical ideas presented on STAR’S END provokes thought and binds genres, his work here is really about the plasticity of time, and how it may be felt as both infinite and finite, elusive and recognizable.”  Chuck Van Zyl Stars End, WXPN-fm

His latest release, Live from Stars End, finds Motzer in SOLO guitar soundscape mode, but you’d hardly recognize the guitar. Live from Stars End was recorded live in WXPN Studio in Philadelphia as part of a live broadcast last November 2013. Motzer is currenly booking a series of SOLO shows to promote this album. Live shows also feature the celebrated talents of Dejha Ti who is creating live immersive visuals for the performances. The recent Gatherings show in Philadelphia presented Motzer live at St. Mary’s Church on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania with spectacular sound and Dejha Ti’s stunning visuals in a beautiful majestic space.

Buy the physical edition or download here:

Tim Motzer Live from Stars End
http://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-stars-end

TIM MOTZER SOLO record release shows
with visuals by DEJHA TI

Saturday July 19th
AKA music 6pm in-store performance Philadelphia

Friday August 1st
WPRB radio live performance. Princeton, NJ 103.3FM
1am Saturday morning late night.

Wednesday August 6th
Spectrum NYC 7pm
121 Ludlow Street
Floor 2
NYC NY 10002

Thursday August 14th
Johnny Brendas Philadelphia 9pm
1201 Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia PA 19125

An evening of solo performances
Tim Motzer
with solo sets by special guests:
Brandon Seabrook
Mary Lattimore

Saturday August 16
Markus Reuter, David Rothenberg, Tim Motzer
Quinns Beacon, NY

 Europe 

August 22 Coolfli, Wroclaw, Poland solo w Dejha Ti visuals
August 23 Bielefeld House Concert
August 24 Townhall Kulturverein-Borgholzhausen – solo

 Berlin residency

August 29 Einundzwanzigzwölf Salon der Verzückung w Sasha Pushkin, Bernhard Woestheinrich
August 30 Loophole Berlin
September 3 recording session with Jaki Leibeziet, Bernhard Woestheinrich at Studio Wannsee
September 5 Gallery 14B Berlin, Germany
September 6 Greenhouse Berlin
September 7 Ma Thilda Berlin

Philadelphia Fringe Festival dates
September 20 Shamanic Interfaces fringe fest CEC Philadelphia
September 21 Shamanic Interfaces fringe fest CEC Philadelphia

October 17
Lairs of Self. Design Philadelphia. Ice Box. Crane Arts. Philadelphia
http://lairsofself.com/

November 8
Rotunda. Philadelphia solo.

November 26
Gilly’s, Dayton, Ohio Solo, w Dejha Ti visuals
opening for psychodots. 8pm

November 28
Southgate House Revival, Newport, KY Solo, w Dejha Ti visuals
opening for psychodots.  8pm

December 6
First Banana, Fishtown, Philadelphia
Tim Motzer solo guitar/electronics + Dejha Ti visuals

 

 

Tim Motzer bio

“PHILADELPHIA-BASED GUITARIST AND COMPOSER Tim Motzer finds infinite joy in diversity. His output as a leader and sideman crisscrosses multiple musical universes, including jazz, fusion, prog, hip-hop, soul, electronica, and the avant garde. Motzer gets to explore these genres and the intersections between them via his ubiquitous presence in the wildly deep and varied Philly scene.

After 16 years of world touring, stunning collaborations, and over 60 albums of credits this Philadelphia-based guitarist continues to traverse manifold territories in music and has developed a distinct textural guitar voice utilizing looping, bowing, electronics, and prepared techniques.

He has collaborated with David Sylvian, Burnt Friedman, Jaki Leibezeit (Can), Ursula Rucker, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Markus Reuter, King Britt, Dino JA Deane, Kurt Rosenwinkel among many others.

As a leader, his projects include Goldbug, Instant Takemitsu, Global illage, Base3, Nucultures, & Tim Motzer SOLO. He releases his genre-defying solo work and collaborations on his 1k Recordings imprint and webcasts sessions from his studio on 1ksessions.com.  Motzer also composes for film and video, and scores for choreographers in the world of modern dance.

Worldwide Bookings for Tim Motzer
Contact Dee Hessler
DeeHessler@gmail.com

Live from Stars End is available at
http://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-stars-end

Tim Motzer – Dejha Ti live performance video
http://vimeo.com/47643504

Tim Motzer Live from Stars End album design process film
http://vimeo.com/96747555

concert pick by The Key WXPN:
http://thekey.xpn.org/2014/08/12/tim-motzer/ 

http://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/
http://1ksessions.com/
https://soundcloud.com/1krecordings