Tim Carr

Self-Released

Tim Carr’s Debut Full-Length, The Last Day Of Fighting, out December 16, 2016.

Tim Carr is a singer/composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His music is a mix of instrumental interludes, and minimal folkesque songs inspired by African rhythms, melodies of the French Romantics, and ’60s pop.

Carr has worked as a drummer and collaborator, with the bands HAIM, The Americans, and Fell Runner, as well as performed with artists such as Devendra Banhart, Gaby Moreno, Ryan Bingham, Edward Sharpe, Julian Casablancas, Dr. John, Lucinda Williams, Broken Social Scene, and Nick Cave. In addition, Carr has recorded with T Bone Burnett, performed on Letterman, and is featured in the upcoming documentary, American Epic, produced by T Bone Burnett, Jack White and Robert Redford.

As a solo artist, he has toured internationally in Japan, Taiwan and Canada, and is just finishing up a national tour opening and playing drums for the iconic singer/songwriter, Sean Hayes.

Carr’s first home recordings were released in the fall of 2014 under the Moorworks label in Japan. His song, “The Last Day of Fighting,” was included on the soundtrack to Watershed, directed and produced by Robert Redford, featuring other artists including Beck, Múm, and Thom Yorke.

Carr’s debut full-length, The Last Day of Fighting, which includes some of his early recordings, will be released in December, 2016. The album touches on themes such as existential longing, nostalgia and escapism. He recorded and self-produced all the songs, and plays all the instruments.

Raised in Marin County and surrounded by a family of musicians, Carr took up piano, guitar, and drums by eight years old. He continued to study drums and polyrhythms with Peter Magadini and, as a teenager, performed in numerous workshops, including The Brubeck Jazz Colony, Stanford Jazz Workshop, and SF Jazz Combos. Carr received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and was featured on their Capitol Records CD for three consecutive years.