Tim Finn is the older of the acclaimed Finn Brothers and is known for his music with New Zealand rock group Split Enz as well as for his impressive solo work.
Tim brings to us songs from his new album, The Conversation. Organic, intimate, introspective, celebratory – The Conversation sounds and feels like no other record the great singer/songwriter has ever produced.
Economy and clarity – music and emotion stripped bare. Make it as real and honest as possible. Everyone involved contributing equally. That’s what Tim Finn was thinking long before work on The Conversation began.
During the production of this album, as always, there were so many other musical projects Tim was involved in, so much other music he was making and playing.
Just in recent years, there’s been a new Finn Brothers’ record, Everyone Is Here [2004], which Tim and brother Neil supported with an extensive world tour. There’s been a sold-out reunion concert tour through Australia and New Zealand with Tim’s original outfit, the legendary Split Enz, the band he formed while still a student at Auckland University in the early 1970s.
There’s also a new theatre work called ‘Poor Boy’, a play with songs written by Matt Cameron and based on Tim’s songs old and new, which will have its world premiere season with the Melbourne Theatre Company in early 2009, starring Australian actor Guy Pearce. The Sydney Theatre Company will also stage ‘Poor Boy’ in mid 2009.
Then, of course, there was Tim’s most recent solo release, the widescreen Imaginary Kingdom [2006], recorded in Nashville with producer Bobby Huff. In this past year alone, a lot of Tim’s time and toil has been dedicated to constantly touring through towns and cities across the US, supporting Imaginary Kingdom’s belated North American release.
Managing to find a new kind of harmony by drawing together disparate elements from across the vast span of his life, Tim Finn has produced an emotional, beautiful and unique new work in The Conversation which will take pride of place up alongside the finest moments of his extraordinary 35-year music career.