Marktimmins - Mark Timmins

tachypsychia, by slow motion lion

6 track album

Some awesome solo guitar music from an old friend of mine.

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.

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.

Sketchbook doodle. “I might not be much of a man, but I’m one hell of a puppeteer.”

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!