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Welcome to the realm of tim, this is the brainiac monster child of me, tim hall, composer, web author and slightly schizophrenic autobiographer. I know that it's a sign of impending mental aberration to talk about one'self in the third person, but i'm sure if tim scrubs hard enough he'll manage to remove those nasty hairs from the palms of his hands.

This page is slightly out of date, I'm currently planning a 'tim hall & the archetypes' tour for the Autumn. But it's good fun, so I left it and most of the information still applies.

The name I gave as a kind of subtitle to my solo project (and worked under for several years) was Mining for Starlight, which comes from reading George McDonald's children's novel "at the back of the North Wind". This neatly conveys the sense of paradox i encounter in most of my waking life. Most of the music has been written over the years i've lived, and worked in the open-air lunatic asylum that is Glastonbury. This collection of influences has produced a fusion of New Age Nonsense, whimsical accapella arrangements, self-indulgent songs about obsessive love, paranoia and onanism; all written from an entirely subjective viewpoint, full of supposedly intellectual subtleties that nobody ever understands, coupled with a cringeworthy rhyming structure, filling out the gaps with cosmic waffle and banal obscurism. Even if I do say so myself.

 

Tim's melodies are hypnotically forgettable, naggingly obtuse chord sequences turn corners never meant to be there and collide with equally implausible lyrics - an exercise in paradoxical logic, influenced by every embarrassing cheese merchant under the sun.

Tim is possibly one of the most misunderstood songwriters since the author of "Sumer is icumen in" and sadly believes he is a reincarnated unemployed Atlantean bog cleaner

It's always a strange task, attempting to describe your own music in words - the classic composer's headache - Whaddy'a mean EXPLAIN? - if i thought i could explain using words i'd have written a website. To this end there's several sound samples littered around this site, certainly enough to give you a reasonable idea of what i'm on about. The quality of the samples i've used is a little on the rough side, it's all a question of keeping the file sizes downloadable blah... I've included some longer tracks for the really enthusiastic. Obviously please respect my copyright etc. but otherwise enjoy!

Happy listening