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Timber Timbre
WWW:
http://www.myspace.com/timbertimbre
Bio:
Timber Timbre stops you. The elements are deceptively simple: a confident, but hushed voice, understated guitar, strings and keyboard flourishes, and a subtle percussive beat. Timber Timbre front man Taylor Kirk is making pop as if it was meant to sound haunted.
Over the course of two records, 2006's Cedar Shakes and 2007's Medicinals, Timber Timbre has gained a devoted following. Spellbinding performances opening for noted Toronto musicians Bruce Peninsula and Ohbijou have earned Kirk more fans. The years have also marked a rapid progression from a dusty, low-fi bedroom blues to the sophisticated, cinematic studio work found on his newest self-titled record, set for release in January 2009 by Toronto based record label Out of this Spark.
Recording for the new album began in the summer of 2008 at Kirk's home studio and in the fall Timber Timbre put final touches on the record at the Lincoln County Social Club with producer Chris Stringer (The D'Urbervilles, Ohbijou, Rush, David Wilcox).
Despite Timber Timbre being the project of Kirk, the recording of this record was a community affair. Guests on the record include some luminaries of Toronto's pop underground. Mika Posen (Forest City Lovers) contributed string arrangements, as did the singers of Bruce Peninsula.
The sum of the parts, however, is something grounded in a strange place where genre descriptions like blues, country, and folk intersect becoming secondary to the precision of the moods being conjured.
Releases:
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Press:
2009-03-19 : Timber Timbre falls for self-titled disc : London Free Press
2009-03-11 : Timbering on country death rock? : Queen's Journal
2009-02-05 : Timber Timbre Review : Hour
2009-02-01 : Timber Timbre's Time Travel : Exclaim
2009-01-22 : Happy anniversary : The Ontarion
2009-01-15 : Still chasing ghosts : Guelph Mercury
2009-01-15 : Timber Timbre Review : Guelph Mercury
2009-01-13 : Timber Timbre Review : Chartattack
2009-01-13 : Timber Timbre Review : The Globe and Mail
2009-01-08 : Timber Timbre Review : NOW Magazine
2009-01-08 : Timber Timbre Review : popwreckoning.com
2009-01-05 : Reviews:: Timber Timbre : Herohill.com
2008-09-17 : Timber Timbre Interview : Radio Free Canuckistan
2007-11-22 : A sparse, sombre approach to blues : The Kitchener-Waterloo Record
2007-11-20 : Timber! Singer falls into scene : The Kingston Whig Standard
2006-10-03 : Timber Timbre Wavelength Profile : Wavelength