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Tim’s 23rd studio album is a work several years in conception which brought together a multitude of experiences and influences for a musician who has cut a diverse course in his artistic development. This 9-track release comprises a new approach to his guitar playing (finger style playing), gleaned from his love of American composer and guitarist Michael Hedges. The album title is inspired by author Robert Anton Wilson’s ‘Maybe Logic’.
‘Maybe Magic’ brings together songs written between 2019 and 2021 when Tim discovered Discordianism – an idea that both order and disorder are illusions imposed on the universe by the human nervous system. These ideas took root at the end of 2019 during Tim’s collaboration with alternative theatre group ‘The Mycelium’ - a British female-led production company spanning decades of alternative and DIY culture.
After receiving a ground-breaking book on Michael Hedges’ finger style guitar playing ‘Rhythm, Sonority, Silence’ by Hedges’ collaborator John Stropes, Tim set about relearning everything he knew about the acoustic guitar and began work on the album. His time was spent learning the new guitar tunings, whilst simultaneously painting the album cover in the room next door, as audiobooks of Robert Anton Wilson’s Cosmic Trigger and Alan Watts blasted out of the stereo. The album artwork was inspired by one of Tim’s dreams.
After applying gold leaf and gouache, Tim would pause the audiobooks and record a new song while each new layer of paint would dry. This process continued between the two rooms over the first 3 weeks of 2021 until both the album and the painting were completed.
Tim’s revisits a musical style in Hedges’ inimitable harmonic structure Tim first heard as a boy, at the same time as learning to paint again.
What ‘Maybe Magic’ sets out is the first album Tim has released without anticipating any outside thoughts about the music and without any intention to release it publicly. He decided to release it whilst his multimedia album/film project Super Connected is on hold.
Tracklist
1. Guides
2. The Spectrum of Love
3. Hypnogogic Logic
4. Dream In Tight
5. Shine Your Light
6. Brighter Squared
7. Catch That Flame
8. Opening Doors
9. Questioning Answers