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Tim Solo

I admit / I don't know a shit / About this mystery

About Me


My new album, "Sucidal Songs", is finally out! It includes 15 songs and has a running time of over 1 hour.You can order it for 12,00 EUR (14,50 USD) - (10,00 EUR [12,00 USD] for the album and 2,00 EUR [2,50 USD] for packing & postage)Just send me a myspace-message. I will then tell you my bank account data.Hope you enjoy listening to the album as much as I enjoyed creating it!Love,Tim
Here's the album tracklist:1. Naked in a Snowstorm (I)
2. Airport Lullaby
3. I Beg Your Pardon
4. Swedish Princess
5. Darby and Joan (Re-surrection)
6. Today I Had It
7. Dear June
8. Freak Boy
9. Yet Another Grief
10. The Promise
11. Raping Caroline
12. Crack in the Bible
13. Careless
14. Just Like Me
15. Naked in a Snowstorm (II) . .
Some lines about my musicI'm a singer/songwriter. I try to create art in everything I do creatively. That is my first and my last premise. I'm not interested in anything else.When I started making music, I tried to write songs the audience liked. I tried to create certain harmonies and to evoke certain emotions. The results were mediocre at best. Many people seem to be satisfied with this kind of mediocrity, as musicians and as listeners. They make music or listen to it because it tickles their emotions in some pleasant way. They use music as background tapestry or as a distraction. Just listen to the radio, it's full of superficial music like that. You find it in every genre, from Folk to Heavy Metal.Luckily, I outgrew this phase. When I write a song today, I am led by something deeper than emotions or thoughts about fame, the audience or acceptance. I forget myself in such moments. I am not important anymore. What is happening or not happening with the song in the future is not important anymore. The only thing that counts is honesty towards the moment, honesty towards the creative impulse. When I'm able to keep this honesty, it leads me to myself and beyond myself at the same time. It leads me to truth. And when I'm able to translate this truth - at least partially - into words, melodies and chords, the result is art.Art is deeper than arts and crafts. Art touches on something we don't know anything about, it touches on the unknown, the mystery. Art doesn't tickle our emotions in some pleasant and superficial way, it dives beneath the surface and grabs us right by our hearts. Art leads us to ourselves, it doesn't distract us from ourselves, it's not entertainment. Even though it can be more entertaining than everything else. Even more entertaining than sex. But art can also be very unpleasant, very uncomfortable. It may point directly to the very thing we don't want to see or don't want to feel right now. Art can be very painful. And yet - or just because of that - it makes us feel alive.There are two situations in my life in which I feel more alive than usual: when I'm writing a song or performing one on stage. Both situations scare the shit out of me and both situations are the most rewarding occupations I've ever come across. Art is my biggest fear and my biggest passion. It gives me liveliness, but also vulnerability, humbleness and pain. The thought of surrendering to it again and again scares me and makes me confident at the same time. It is the biggest adventure I can dream of.I'm afraid I can't say much more about my music, sorry.Listen to it, read the lyrics and judge for yourself.Bremen, July 2006Tim Solo

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Member Since: 7/3/2006
Band Website: timsolo.de
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Influences: Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Conor Oberst, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Jeff Buckley, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Helge Schneider, John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Ian Anderson, David Bowie, Motorpsycho, Archive, Can, Sonic Youth, Muse, King Crimson, Ween, Monster Magnet, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Iron Maiden, Mountain, dEUS, Anne Clark, Alan Parsons Project, Rory Gallagher, Uriah Heep, The Eagles, Dio, Tom Waits, Fish, Black Sabbath, Radiohead, The Saints, Eagles of Death Metal, Motörhead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, James Blunt, Billy Joel, Stoppok, Eleanor McAvoy, Whitesnake, Jamie Cullum, Simon and Garfunkel, Camel, Pink Floyd, Bright Eyes, Colour of Fire, Marillion, The Ramones, Kyuss, Eels, Warlock, Jan Garbarek, Tori Amos, Adam Green, Voivod, John Frusciante, Dire Straits, James, Queens of the Stone Age, Pet Shop Boys, Melissa Etheridge, Nick Drake, The Doors, Mostly Autumn, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, David Sylvian, Wishbone Ash, Guns'n'Roses, Kings of Convenience, Elton John, George Michael, Queen, Elvis Presley, A-HA, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Nirvana, Jennifer Warnes, Meatloaf, Bon Jovi, Kate Bush, Jim Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, Philip Ridley, Paul Auster, Jack Kerouac, Monty Python, Kurt Tucholsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Mann, Uche Nduka, Allan Ginsberg, Jim Jarmusch, Wiglaf Droste, Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick, Ken Wilber, Ang Lee, Jean Gebser, Stanislav Grof, Charles L. Whitfield, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Charles Taylor, Enzo Traverso, Robert M. Pirsig, Hakuin, Rei Shin Sensei, Jesus, Buddha, Morihei Ueshiba, Claude Anshin Thomas
Sounds Like: a mixture between Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Bright Eyes and Helge Schneider. Which isn't exactly true. But remotely. On good days I sound like myself. On bad days ... well ...
Record Label: Milbi Records
Type of Label: Indie