Tim Motzer – Inside

released June 5, 2020

i hope these sonic meditations may reach you in some way, and bring some solace. Many blessings.
Tim Motzer, May 20, 2020

Buy here:
https://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/album/inside

‘Deliberation’ and ‘Transformation’ were recorded early mornings the first week of COVID-19 quarantine. They were created for choreographers and dancers to use for meditations. ‘Inside’ was recorded April 10, 2020—an excerpt from a live streaming concert from my studio. ‘Lament’ was recorded at the Living Room in Ardmore, PA on September 12, 2019. I felt it was meant to be with this collection of music. ‘For Hal and John’ is dedicated to Hal Willner and John Prine—recorded the evening of their transition, April 7, 2020.

Recorded and mixed by Tim Motzer at 1k Recordings, Philadelphia
Additonal mixing and treatments by Eric Bogacz
Mastered by Eric Bogacz at Spice House Recording Studio,. Philadelphia

Cover painting by Tim Motzer

© ℗ 2020 1k Recordings Inc published by one k music co. (BMI)
all rights reserved. catalogue #: 1k046

“It is the endless potential of live improvisation that puts this whole enterprise in motion. Under these conditions Motzer is arranger, performer, and accompanist all at once. In his rare world of spontaneous composition he achieves a beautiful, often dramatic cohesion. Does he make a plan beforehand? Yes, he plans to start playing and hear what happens. Initially made as a gift to individual friends and colleagues, it was soon discovered that others outside this circle were also moved by these works. Their fanciful wisps and sustaining mists ease the mind, as well as does the slow dance of dreamy, breathing tones fortifies the heart. These pieces should not unsettle the listener with difficult questions – rather, they are offering the certainty that their notes go good together, and, once the journey is complete, resolve in a soft, sure landing.

Traveling on drifts of shimmering steel strings, reverb laden phrases softly emerge into the sound-space, then recede. Where electric guitar solos rise in ever strengthening leads, a rolling slow flow of calm and color radiates below. The expressive array of sonic shades and whispering washes clings willingly to the ears – eventually sending listeners back to themselves anew.

The current consciousness of mortality has provided Inside with a soulful heft. This creative act of contemplative companionship, of listening and thinking together through music provides a refreshing edge that favors life. While the world outside erodes, Tim Motzer restores the space inside. But his arc of melancholy bends toward an awareness… something that is invisible, but palpable – which accompanies us spectrally, in the back of our minds, well Inside.”

– Chuck Van Zyl WXPN, Star’s End Radio