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My gloomy version of “Silent Night” will surely lift your Xmas 2020 spirits.
Listen/purchase: Everyone is boring by Mark Timmins
This is the second last track on my album, about how boring everyone is.
I’ve just released my second full length album! Available right now on bandcamp: https://marktimmins.bandcamp.com/album/controlled-voluntary-suffering
This song is about just how ridiculous it is, in this enormous universe of infinitely complex beauty, that nothing can compare to the emotional intensity of love. To be sure, reflecting on black holes and neutron stars can bring about a sublime sense of wonder, but what are such refined emotions in comparison to the cataclysmic upheaval of falling in love? At the same time as acknowledging the ridiculousness of it all, the song is also about surrendering to the domination of love and enjoying its special place within experienced reality. Without knowing love, it would be impossible to understand even half of what it can actually feel like to be a human being alive on planet earth.
I’ve just released a new EP called “Unjustified Narcissism.” It’s a collection of four subversive pop songs played on electric guitar. Free to stream/download on bandcamp right now: https://marktimmins.bandcamp.com
Here’s a demo of a new song I’ve been working on!
I had this idea to try to make the darkest sounding version of a christmas song known to humankind. Here it is! Happy Xmas time!
A photo from a living room style concert that I played at the Muz Studio on Friday night! Thanks to everyone who made it happen, it was a beautiful evening!
I will be playing live along with Rainer Reiher at FifteenSixteen in Nürnberg on Thursday next week (18th of May). It should be a really killer evening. There will be tents.
Some awesome solo guitar music from an old friend of mine.
Claire Falkenberg
Trash, 2011
oil on collaged c-prints of trash
Song number 9 on "Organic Discontent." I've always liked the idea of murder ballads, but I'd never really found one that was as crushingly bleak as I might have liked. This song is an attempt to fill something of that hole for myself. I tried to imagine what it might feel like to have done something utterly horrid that cannot be undone. I wanted to try to capture something of what I imagine must be a moment of piercing realisation, when instinct, aggression and adrenaline instantly recede and a heavy tidal wave of acute, oppressive awareness comes rolling in, leaving your entire being flooded with sickening regret. We should always remember that killing another human being is actually incredibly easy and something, I believe, we are all capable of ... to be human and to live in any way that even comes close to what we might define as "good" requires eternal vigilance.
This song went through three huge changes to the lyrics before settling into this version on the album. It started out as my attempt at something like a love song, but then it crumbled away until it was more like a song about obsessive-compulsive disorder ... interesting, to say the least. What exactly does this say about me and my ability to form meaningful, lasting relationships with other human beings? Probably that I suck. Yep.
Official video clip for “To the black horizon,” from the new album “Organic Discontent.” The video is taken from footage that I filmed while travelling around Iceland in October 2015. Expect volcanos, fjords, glacial icebergs, and a few black horizons.
I’m playing support for Sarah Ferri on 24/02/2017 at Milla Live Club in Munich. I drew a poster. Should be a really nice evening. Come along and say hi!
There is a hootenanny happening on Tuesday 13/12/2016 in Nürnberg. I will be there singing all of my absolute saddest songs to get everybody into the Christmas spirit!
A couple of weeks ago I played a live session on Radio-Z Nürnberg. It was a heap of fun. Straight-up, raw and authentic, no bull-honky. This is a video of the entire set.
I was recently invited by the excellent Wake the Deaf blog to create a “Mystery mini mix.” I was given six random prompts with which to choose six songs to put together a playlist, plus the space to write a little about each song and how it fits the given category and why it is significant to me. It was really fun!
Here is a new video! The song is called “Vulnerable.”
Sketchbook doodle with some digital colour.
Sketchbook doodle. “I might not be much of a man, but I’m one hell of a puppeteer.”