Tilomo - Soft Lunch

"Tim Motzer has made some pretty noisy shit...Ursula Rucker and King Britt's Sister Gertrude Morgan CDnot to mention contributions to David Sylvian's Nine Horses and Jaki Liebezeit's Secret Rhythms. Yet, on this new solo excursion, this Philadelphian finds solace in silence.

Tilomo, Tim Motzer's guitar/laptop solo project, benefits greatly from the sloe-gin-y liquid soul of his work with Brittyou can hear it in the way his fuzzy jazz-foink chords ooze through the title track. But there's a sputter, beep, whoosh and clink to the proceedings that make it happily irksome and decidedly un-neo-soulful. The sawed, strained string samples of "Blue Samari," the thickly blown wind sounds that trace the development of "Embrace" from autumn chill to winter storm, the cheery tinkling of "Chi Moto"there are eight million moody stories to be told in this ambient jungle. "
--A.D. Amorosi (City Paper) Philadelphia

track listing:
01 soft lunch
02 blue samari
03 embrace
04 gelid
05 chi moto
06 zen assembler
07 spellbound
08 shadow guitar
09 sadness
10 after theyve gone

produced by tim motzer for one k music group

tilomo: guitar laptop compostions improvisations
jeremy carlstedt: source drumming on 'gelid'

'shadow guitar' and 'sadness' were used by the
scottish dance theatre for their choreography
entitled moment touring scotland and uk 2004

REVIEW:

TILOMO - SOFT LUNCH (1K)

Tilomo's "Soft Lunch" is both jagged and soft, smooth and abrasive. And the sum total is greater than its parts. With the touch of the play button on your CD machine, you are launched into realms beyond moral thought. In this CD, mankind symbolically achieves transcendence. Dark and light, sharp and blunt, smooth and rough - dichotomies merge in a mind-soothing sort of rapture experienced by minds on the fringe. Intelligent and informed by dadaism (at the same time that it seems to be couched in meaning), "Soft Lunch" is an exploration of the beyond, transcendence for the brave. Four stars (DJfix.com)