Timber Timbre | Control Club | 16.05.2025

Acclaimed Canadian act Timber Timbre will perform for the first time in Romania this spring – May 16 in Bucharest, at Control Club – as part of a European tour in support of their latest release, Lovage.

Tickets are now available via Eventbook.

Presale: 95 RON (first 100 tickets). Afterwards, the price will go up to 120 RON per ticket.

Founded in 2005 by Canadian musician Taylor Kirk, Timber Timbre (a moniker referring to an early series of recordings made in a timber-framed cabin set in the wooded outskirts of Bobcaygeon, Ontario) have released seven studio albums. Their latest, Lovage is an album marrying perverted piano ballads and spiritual jazz interludes on islands of exotica and psyche-prog with Spectoresque girl-group cabaret.

Recorded in 2022 in Quebec with Mike Dubue (Hilotrons), the album is a return to form following the glossy Sincerely, Future Pollution, the album was released in 2023 on Timber Timbre’s own Hot Dreams Records and [PIAS].

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Kirk admits to revisiting Sun Ra, Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, as well as Italian singers such as Pino Daniele and Paolo Conte, which might explain the cinematic lightness of the new album. When asked about The Velvet Underground he replied reluctantly: “I wouldn't say that I sound like Lou Reed,” Kirk explains. “But I also aspire to the leanness that he brings to his lyrics and storytelling.” Another connection to Lou Reed is the wry humor that is always present in Timber Timbre's work, despite the social commentary prevalent in the new songs, such as the album opener “Ask The Community”.

The electronic elements that characterized Timber Timbre's previous album, Sincerely, Future Pollution make a return on Lovage, albeit with a more discrete confidence. In fact, Lovage is a bona fide masterpiece, as Kirk manages to combine disparate influences, reconciling Brian Wilson’s rich sonic palette with the amused melancholy of Leonard Cohen. When asked about these influences Taylor admits these are certainly touchstones. ”Brian Wilson and Leonard Cohen are among many influences that have come to embody what music is to me.”

https://timbertimbre.ca/

Timber Timbre – Sugar Land (video) : https://youtu.be/b6-lf7wQAbc

Timber Timbre – Ask The Community (video) : https://youtu.be/WawzwkM341g

Timber Timbre – Lovage (live) : https://youtu.be/WcgvzhTnHTg

In support of Lovage, Timber Timbre are performing a series of shows in Europe – featuring the new Timber Timbre trio, Mike Dubue (piano, synthesizer, voice), Adam Bradley Schreiber (drums, percussion) and Taylor Kirk (guitar, voice).

The Timber Timbre show in Bucharest is presented by Liveland with the support of Control Club.