Monkey Records presents: North to Alaska – Tim Guy ‘Big World’ single launch, with 20 date NZ tour & documentary film
The new single and title-track of Tim Guy’s third album Big World plays as a meaningful introduction to one of independent pop’s most entranced and entrancing journeymen. Amid a nightscape of glockenspiel tinkles and gentle synth swirlpools, Guy coos cautiously like someone just waking up in the evening, equally affected by lingering dreams and the flickering to life of streetlights. A dream-drunk connection between the imaginary and the real set partly in north New Zealand, ‘Big World’ expresses the simmering excitement and disorientation felt when new impressions blur with the losses they are meant to relieve: “it’s a movie washing over me.”
Now returning to New Zealand for a 20 date tour promoting ‘Big World’, Guy replaces the movies he dreams and sings about with the real thing. Filming his adventures and encounters with small communities and the various local musicians who remarkably form his revolving scratch band, Guy’s documentary is not about the artist on the road, but about capturing and salvaging little legends and oral histories that would otherwise remain unrecorded. As in ‘Big World’, where Guy endearingly charts his relative but essentially human smallness, such story-sharing is a valuable and understated way of surviving the threatening weight of the world, whereby individuals leave their unique and intriguing traces.
Since relocating to New Zealand several years ago from Australia, Tim has released three critically acclaimed albums and has toured here many times, both solo and in such illustrious company as Anika Moa, Bic Runga, Anna Coddington and Paul McLaney to name but a few. He has carved out a reputation as one of New Zealand’s most hard-working and endearing singer/songwriters and following this New Zealand tour he will be taking his latest album Big World to a global audience with tours planned in Australia, US and Europe.
Tim Guy – North to Alaska Raglan tour details:
Feb 16, Vinnies, Raglan
Here is a link to download the single “Big World” for free: http://tinyurl.com/BigWorldfreemp3