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Maumee, Ohio
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Inlandish - Just Released 01/21/2008!

The US release of Inlandish is now available!

Released on July 15 by High Wire, the US version features subtly different cover art in the same beautiful 'digipak' case, and can be purchased at many retailers like Amazon, or direct from us at the link here (we also have a few of the original UK CD release, too!):

Order Inlandish now at timstory.com

The third collaboration between the krautrock legend Roedelius - once of Cluster and Harmonia - and the American composer Tim Story features the kind of instrumental music that tends to be called "ambient" for want of a better name, yet this isn't music that sits there in the background as you get on with your life. This is music that makes you stop and listen. (From The London Times)

"For Ohio-based Tim Story, American neo-classical composer and expert in synth-assisted exploration, the Lunz collaborative project is a lifelong dream. His partner in the sublime is Hans-Joachim Roedelius, the man behind Brian Eno favourites Cluster and a musical maverick whom Story has longed to work with ever since he first heard the cerebral, eerie, proto-Aphex strains of Germany's Cluster in the '70s when all around him was hairy, lairy rock 'n' roll.

'Rock 'n' roll was king and I was getting restless,' explains Story. 'Discovering this new German electronic music was a blast of fresh air to the handful of us who managed to find it. As a friend of mine put it, Cluster's music was like "some heavenly music except the primary instrument appears to be a coffee percolator." What I was, and still am drawn to, is that Roedelius has the most intuitive approach to music of anyone I've ever met. Whether he's playing a translucent piano improv, or experimenting with the most jagged, dense electronics, there's this undeniable humanity and uniqueness to his work.'

The two first met when Story, traveling Europe to plug his first solo albums in 1983 and still obsessed by his hero, 'made a point to swing through Austria to meet him.' Story ended up staying with Roedelius for a week, camping in the beautiful, forested area that would eventually give them their collaborative name. Since that first meeting, the two have remained close, exploring a kindred spirit for composing 'emotionally ambiguous' soundscapes and for wine, something that delayed them actually working together until 1996: 'Whenever we got together,' says Story, 'we were always having too much fun to actually start!'

They finally got to it when Roedeluis and Cluster made their American touring debut in 1996. First to come from this musical partnership was the hallucinatory musique concrète of 'Persistence of Memory', followed by acclaimed 2003 album 'Lunz'. It's 'Inlandish', though, that sees the two, separated by 23-years and something called the Atlantic ocean, putting their individual parts of the jigsaw together for what's easily their most beguiling trip.

Describing the dream-inducing wash of sounds that is 'Inlandish', it is, at first listen, perhaps easy to call it ambient. Roedelius suggests that we should try a bit harder though: 'Ambient doesn't really express 'Inlandish''s complexity and beauty. 'Inlandish' is not easy to put in the category of what ambient music normally appears as in the listeners ears. Perhaps it's 'ambient at its best', but I would think it's a sort of new or contemporary classical music.'

They began the album by spending 10 days together in Story's Toledo studio laying down Roedelius's piano parts ('I'm just the piano-keyboard man,' says Roedelius somewhat disingenuously). After that, Story spent five months working on the tone of the record, adding the haunting twists and languid yet euphoric whooshes. Of the two, Roedelius is usually considered the groundbreaking electronicist but on 'Indlandish' it was Story who added the electronic parts and all the arrangements (Oboe, cello...). The result is an amalgam of pulsing, tinkling, voice-of-the-future sounds that touch on the dreamy and beautiful but also something darker, more melancholy and deeply existential. Says Story: 'Happy music always seems kind of dull and shallow to me, so I'm always drawn back to something with a bit more mystery, darkness or sadness. I'll take Bartok over Shostakovich, Boards Of Canada over Franz Ferdinand…'

This also being the reason for Story 'electronically subverting acoustic instruments like the cello,' or making electronic sounds feel organic, challenging the listener to ask what's what and how it makes them feel. It's something that Story takes from his love of Steve Reich and the great man's use of 'repetition and shifting perspectives.' But however much 'Inlandish' might sound like the soundtrack to a trip through the cosmos, this album is immersive rather than passive, both unsettling and comforting. For Roedelius, though, 'Inlandish' is simply a beautiful album that expresses how much fun the two have had together: 'We took breaks to eat nice food and to drink wine. We were also cooking together. I cooked my special French fish soup, which I learned running an art bar with friends at a beach in 'Inlandish' sounds.'

Tim Story - biography

Tim Story, hailed as "a true artist in the electronic medium" (Victory Review, USA) and "a master of electronic chamber music" (CD Review, USA) has received worldwide acclaim for his haunting compositions which blend orchestral acoustic instruments and elegant electronics.

Tim's intensely personal style as a pianist, synthesist and composer developed from years of experimentation in his home studio, and a love of composition. Along with his self-taught, idiosyncratic approach to the piano, Story saw the great potential of the new breed of electronic music instruments that were evolving in the early 70's. This affinity for synthesizers, as well as electric guitars, tape loops and kitchen utensils, is evident in the early recordings. The careful juxtaposition of acoustic instruments with electronic textures, and an inventive approach to composition are common threads running through most of Story's work.

"I like to work with a finite palette of sounds and keep paring things down to a pure, though often ambiguous, expression. Simplicity shouldn't imply simplemindedness. I think of the deceptively simple, ironic pieces of Erik Satie, or the lovely yet challenging piano music of Debussy. The very best of these pieces appear so effortless and perfect that they seem as if they've existed forever..." Story also cites a diverse range of musical preferences including Bartok, Arvo Part, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Dwight Ashley, Can, Cluster and Robert Wyatt.

Tim's work has garnered an international reputation for its haunting elegance and meticulous compositional detail. When writing and recording, he often spends months carefully working and refining the shape of each composition until he achieves the desired emotional and intellectual effect. His seemingly simple pieces distill harmonic and melodic ideas that are often quite complex. " ...a goal of mine is to get the listeners to put something of themselves into the music. I want to prod the listener to find his or her own feelings about a piece, even if those feelings are sometimes uncomfortable. As Charles Ives said, 'Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair.' I like to think of good music as a sculpture or a Japanese garden, where you can never experience the whole from any one point. Music that insinuates, you must move through it, live with it for a while, before it yields its secrets." As Philadelphia's City Paper described it, "Story’s unsentimental blend of still-life piano and eerie synthetics conjures without explaining. His instrumental music comes at the listener subtly yet subversively...."

DISCOGRAPHY

1981

Threads
Originally recorded for Atem Records
Re-issued 1992 by Eurock Records (USA) - ECD 2008/CD
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1982

In Another Country
Dubious Recordings (USA) - DC001/Cass
Uniton Records (Norway) - U009/LP
Re-issued in 1995 by Eurock Records (USA) - ECD 2012/CD
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1984

Untitled
Uniton Records (Norway) - U024/LP Cassette
Polydor (Japan) - 3112-56/CD LP
Re-issued 1988, Windham Hill/Lost Lake Arts (USA) - WD 0094/CD LP Cass
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1985

Three Feet From The Moon
Uniton Records - U027/LP Cass
Teichiku (Japan) - 30CP-148/CD
Re-issued in 1997 by Eurock Records (USA) - ECD 2014/CD
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1987

Wheat and Rust
Cicada Records (Norway) - C008/LP Cass CACD 03/CD
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Glass Green
Windham Hill (USA) - WD 1061, 11124/CD LP Cass
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1988

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Read by Glenn Close, Music composed, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill/Rabbit Ears – WD 0711/CD LP Cass

1990

Of The Father’s Love Begotten, from A Winter's Solstice III
Traditional, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill - WH 1098/CD LP Cass

1991

Beguiled (Released 1992)
Hearts Of Space (USA) - HS11027/CD Cass
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A Desperate Serenity (Ashley/Story)
Multimood Records (Sweden)/CD
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1992

The Seed, from The Seed
Composed by John Kerr, arranged and performed by TS
Cue Records (Germany) - CUE 100/CD

Gymnopedie 1, from The Impressionists
Composed by Erik Satie, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill - 11116/CD Cass
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1993

Asleep the Snow Came Flying, from A Winter's Solstice IV
Composed, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill – 11134/CD Cass
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1994

In Search of Angels
Windham Hill (USA) - 01934 11153-2/CD Cass
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The Perfect Flaw
Hearts of Space (USA) - HS11045/CD Cass
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Siciliano, from The Bach Variations
Composed by J.S. Bach, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA) - 01934 11150/CD Cass

1995

The Death of Ase, from The Romantics
Composed by Edvard Grieg, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA) - 01934-11171/CD Cass
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1996

Abridged (includes Drawn By Hand, previously unreleased)
Hearts of Space (USA) - HS11066/CD
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Adagio from Serenade 10 in B-flat, from A Different Mozart
Composed by W. A. Mozart, arranged and performed by TS
Imaginary Road (Polygram) (USA) - 314 534 065-2/CD Cass

1997

Drop (Ashley/Story)
Lektronic Soundscapes/CD
Re-issued 2005, Nepenthe Music (USA) - AMC05003/CD
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The Earth Lay White, from On A Winter’s Night
Composed, arranged and performed by TS
Imaginary Road (Polygram) (USA) - 314 536 143-2/CD Cass

In The Winter’s Pale, from A Winter’s Solstice VI
Composed, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA) - 01934-11220/ CD Cass
This track from iTunes

1998

The Silver Swan, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Composed by Orlando Gibbons, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA) - 01934-11216/CD Cass
This track from iTunes

Caranna, From Thanksgiving – A Windham Hill Collection
Composed, arranged and produced by TS
Windham Hill - 01934-11381/CD Cass
This track from iTunes

2000

Persistence of Memory (Story/Roedelius)
Seventh Chance, 2000
Limited edition, signed CD
Please check with me for availability

Prelude of the Heroic Gate of Heaven, from A Different Prelude
Composed by Erik Satie, arranged and performed by TS
Decca Records (USA) - 289 465 819/CD

2001

Shadowplay
Hearts of Space (USA) – 11403-2/CD
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When Comes December, from A Winter’s Solstice Silver Anniversary Edition
Composed, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA) - 01934-11604-2/CD

2002

Lunz (Story/Roedelius)
Groenland (UK)/CD
Re-released in 2003 by Narada (USA)/CD
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, from A Windham Hill Christmas
Traditional, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA)
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2003

Largo, from Adagio
Composed by A. Vivaldi, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA) /CD

Sanctus, from Prayer
Composed by Faure, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA)/CD
This track from iTunes

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, from A Windham Hill Christmas II
Traditional, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA)/CD

2004

Lunz Reinterpretations (Story/Roedelius/various artists)
Groenland (UK)/CD
2-cd set featuring original Lunz cd, and another full disc of remixes
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The Holly and the Ivy, from I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Traditional, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA)/CD
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2005

Caravan - Original Soundtrack
Nepenthe Music (USA) - AMC05004/CD
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Standing and Falling (Ashley/Story)
Nepenthe Music (USA) - AMC05007/CD
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The First Noel/What Is This Fragrance?, from Christmas Eve
Traditional, arranged and performed by TS
Windham Hill (USA)/CD
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2006

buzzle
Barking Green (UK)/Nepenthe (US) - BGM00041/CD
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2008

Inlandish (Story/Roedelius)
Groenland (UK)/CD
High Wire (US)/CD
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David Mauk





Jul 25 2008 2:24 PM

Hi Tim-
Just ordered the new album.
Looking forward to it!
Endoflogic





Jul 21 2008 2:06 PM

Tim,

Thanks so much for the add. I've been a huge fan of your work for a lot of years. Your music is truly inspiring.

With much respect and admiration,

Geoff
Ingvald





Jul 21 2008 12:34 PM

Hi Tim, hope you had a good trip and the concert was good! Thanks of course for being a friend and all your help! Much appreciated and much happiness to you!
Ingvald
Mushio FUNAZAWA





Jul 12 2008 12:53 AM

Tachiaoi
Alcea rosea
Mushio
Lehmon





Jul 6 2008 10:33 AM



Although the human's feet only occupy a small part of the earth, it is by the space he does not occupy, that man can walk on the immense earth . Although human intelligence only reaches a parcel of the total truth, it is by what it does not reach, that man can understand what is the sky.
Tchouang Tze

Hi,
Thanks to exist and be alive !
XXX
Peace and Love
Lehmon
Elisabeth Maria





Jul 2 2008 11:59 AM

Dug out my mp3 with Shadowplay and A Perfect Flaw and it was just what I needed to hear today. Going to keep it closer to me. I used to listen to them every night when I was commuting between LA and Chicago and had to be separated from my husband. Now that we are together every night, I didn't need it. But today they were calling to me.
;-) Thanks for the wonderfully blissful music Tim!
Thomas Mangano





Jun 27 2008 6:16 PM

Hi Tim, you were once kind enough to review this song. I thought you might like to see where it went French/American collaboration.
Peace!
Where Will I Go When I Dream?
The Ken Myers Project





Jun 24 2008 7:31 AM

Just stopped by to listen to your wonderful work.
peace,
Ken
Mushio FUNAZAWA





Jun 22 2008 8:41 AM


Mushio
Thank you very much.
John Pemble





Jun 20 2008 10:49 AM

Great that you are out plaing. I found a Hans-Joachim Roedelius piece years ago on a multiartist CD and I really liked his music.
-:)O(:-





Jun 18 2008 9:22 PM

Beguiled is one of my favorites, has been since the early 90's.

Keep going Tim!
"Hey, I can see your house from here!"





May 27 2008 10:07 PM

Tim, thanks for the Add. Been listening since the 80's.
Your music is definately a fabric of life!
TEAM17





Apr 9 2008 12:32 PM

c

ach thank you for being our friEND NOW!!!

dewette gris





Apr 8 2008 2:22 PM

today i m twice blessed...a friend sent a poem by robert bridges,,,london snow,,,which reminds me of asleep the snow came flying...
and hey ho,,,the second blessing be yon presence gracing my parlour :)
Alessandra Celletti





Apr 2 2008 11:17 PM

Hello Tim! How are you?
Alain





Mar 16 2008 2:42 PM

Hello Tim,
Thank you for the add .I hope listen to "Inlandish" and "Standing & Falling" soon because your wonderful music is a real palette of colours in this so often deeply grey world.
All the best from France.
schraube





Mar 16 2008 11:38 AM

Danke für..s adden..villeicht sehen wir und in Lunz
lg
Oliver
Y’s-Toys





Mar 16 2008 10:33 AM

Hi Tim.
Thanks very much for add.
I like your tunes so much!
The Ken Myers Project





Mar 12 2008 10:01 AM

"serpentining" is a wonderful simplistic piece of work. Tim is brilliant as always. Hat's off to you sir.

Peace,
Ken
SUPERMAN





Mar 11 2008 8:47 PM

I absolutely love your work! amazing!!
will inlandish be offered on I-tunes? or maybe on some other digital site?
Bob V. Zicari





Feb 22 2008 7:29 AM

Hi Tim
thank you for the add.
I like your music, since the times at
Windham Hill

Bob V.
Bill





Feb 21 2008 7:52 PM

Hello Tim,
"The Lure Of Silence" is my favorite of yours (and one of my favorites in music overall). The music is hauntingly beautiful. It's like a time machine since it makes me reflect back on things in my life. There are a few I've accidently left off my "influences" section. You're one of them. Time now to correct that. Thanks for the add Tim. All the best for 2008 ~
Bret





Feb 21 2008 8:03 AM

Thanks for the add! Love the Music
Andrew Austin





Feb 10 2008 1:05 PM

Inlandish is brilliant....

Is Persistence of Memory still available?

And thankyou for your friendship!
Andrew
Nanda Re





Feb 8 2008 5:54 AM

Cool floating, smoothly grooving, deep diving and light soaring - your music is beautiful.

Chris Boardman


Is Online


Jan 30 2008 9:24 PM

Thanks for all your support
It means the world to me.

Best wishes,

CB
Machine Age Voodoo





Jan 25 2008 3:04 PM



Best wishes,

Lisa
bdum bdum sound





Jan 25 2008 9:28 AM

kindred spirits we
Peter C Behrens





Jan 18 2008 1:28 PM

Inlandish is yet another masterpiece from beginning to end. So wonderful! Thank you! /Peter
Patrick Dorobisz





Jan 16 2008 4:47 AM

Hello
"Thank you for the friendship! Enchanté d'être votre ami ---All the best ---Patrick
Marshmallow Bunnies





Jan 9 2008 7:48 AM

Alessandra Celletti





Jan 7 2008 12:35 PM

Hello Tim! How are you?
The falling rain be my solace...





Jan 3 2008 4:05 AM

the new stuff sounds great....can't wait to hear the whole disc....great work once again...

David
Nowhere Man





Dec 26 2007 6:13 AM

Hey Tim, Happy New Year! I hope it is a great one for you and your family.

Mike
Five of Five





Dec 25 2007 7:21 AM

Feliz Navidad

Y Un Prospero Año Nuevo.

Merry Christmas

And A Happy and Blessed New Year.

Joe is the fifth of five.

F o F
A Cappella, Tina Lambert





Dec 21 2007 3:35 PM

Thanks for the add! Your music sounds great! Please check out my A Cappella Christmas music on my myspace page when you get a chance. Have a Merry Christmas!

Best regards,
Tina Lambert


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