Results for "Tim Motzer"

Tim Motzer

Shapeshifters

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Dark Sparks; Transmutation; Cyphers; Burn to Aether.

Mark Sullivan's Best Releases of 2020

By MARK SULLIVAN

Despite the circumstances, this was a high volume year for album releases, rich in both quantity and quality. Mine is not a ranked listing, but more or less in reverse chronological order. Since I wrote fewer album reviews than average, for the first time I have included several releases that I did not review myself.

Markus Reuter Times Three: Oculus, Shapeshifters & Sun Trance

By MARK SULLIVAN

Markus Reuter wears many hats: touch guitarist; composer; improviser; soundscaper; and producer. This trio of simultaneous MoonJune Records releases (one technically a reissue) offer an opportunity to sample his music in all of those aspects. Markus Reuter Oculus Nothing is Sacred MoonJune Records 2020 “Oculus" is the name ...

PAKT at ShapeShifter Lab

By MARK SULLIVAN

PAKT ShapeShifter Lab Brooklyn, New York August 15, 2020 For their live stream concert from Brooklyn's ShapeShifter Lab, guitarists Alex Skolnick and Tim Motzer, fretless bass guitarist Percy Jones and drummer Kenny Grohowski followed New York's pandemic guidelines: they wore masks and maintained a six-foot social distance. So retroactively, organizer Leonardo ...

Michelle Lordi: Career Evolution

By R.J. DELUKE

Some artists are blessed to be born into situations where opportunities are at the ready. Education and training are easily obtainable. Maybe they have connections to the professional world, via their lineage or other friends. Even so, it's still up to them to produce and deal with the inevitable vagaries of their choice to pursue music ...

Michelle Lordi: Break Up With the Sound

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Vocalist Michelle Lordi's house burned down at the end of 2017. That is a bracing life event from which one may find oneself at a brutally curious fork in the road. Lordi's Break Up With the Sound makes it seem that she blazed through Kubler Ross's five stages of loss and got to work on something ...

Break Up With the Sound

By MICHELLE LORDI

Label: Cabinet of Wonder Productions
Released: 2019
Track listing: Poor Bird; Wayward Wind; Double-Crossed; True Love; Before; No Expectations; Lover Man; Red House Serenata; Red House Blues; I'm So Lonesome.

Vanishing

By TIM MOTZER

Label: 1K Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Scintilla; Vanishing; Ruins; Rime; Density; Eema.

Voices Without Words

By GENO THACKARA

It's all too easy to forget the voice as an instrument in itself--arguably the most expressive one we have, especially if these examples are any indication. Here we have two offerings to remind us what mind-bending possibilities it can offer. Ikarus Mosaismic Ronin Rhythm Records 2019 A good ...