Tim Baker is a singer-songwriter from the friendliest province of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador. The earth loving, earnest singer played over 800 shows with Hey Rosetta!, prior to their hiatus and his 2019 solo debut on Arts & Crafts. During the pandemic, Baker created a recording studio at the then covid-closed Fogo Island Hotel, a world famous, futuristic building on an isolated island in the North Atlantic. What came of those sessions is Baker's sophomore LP - with Randy Newman flavored ballads, Animal Collective rhythms, and lush arrangements heard on recent Father John Misty albums. "The Festival'', produced by Baker and long-time collaborator, Marcus Paquin (The Weather Station, The National) and mixed by DJ Goodwin (Bob Weir, Kevin Morby) in New York will be released in Fall 2022.
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More about Tim Baker
At the end of 2017, twelve years after their inception, the multi-award winning band, Hey Rosetta! went on hiatus, after selling 10,000 tickets to five farewell shows. For the band's principal songwriter and lead vocalist Tim Baker, this was the start of a new chapter.
On his debut solo album Forever Overhead, Baker warmly welcomes you to it. The first words we hear him sing, on the first single "Dance," is akin to a toast: "here's to the other side." What follows are eleven songs that centre on kinship and show that Baker's sharp songwriting, the heart of Hey Rosetta!, is as affecting as ever.
When crafting the album, Baker drew from 70s songwriters, like Jackson Browne and Randy Newman, whose music filled his childhood home and from his contemporaries (Feist, Leif Vollebekk, The Barr Brothers). Produced by Marcus Paquin (The National, Local Natives), Forever Overhead blends piano ballads with ebullient folk-rock tracks featuring Liam O'Neill (Suuns), Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), as well as Mishka Stein & Joe Grass (Patrick Watson).
In the album's opening track "Dance," Baker moves alongside soft piano chords as buoyant, 70s pop style instrumentation and a piercing guitar riff steadily build, bolstering his words of longing. He sings of connectivity and the tender emotions that are coupled with glances across a gym's confetti-lined linoleum floor, the air thick with potential. Like Forever Overhead as a whole, Baker brings beauty and hope into listeners' lives.
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More about Tim Baker
At the end of 2017, twelve years after their inception, the multi-award winning band, Hey Rosetta! went on hiatus, after selling 10,000 tickets to five farewell shows. For the band's principal songwriter and lead vocalist Tim Baker, this was the start of a new chapter.
On his debut solo album Forever Overhead, Baker warmly welcomes you to it. The first words we hear him sing, on the first single "Dance," is akin to a toast: "here's to the other side." What follows are eleven songs that centre on kinship and show that Baker's sharp songwriting, the heart of Hey Rosetta!, is as affecting as ever.
When crafting the album, Baker drew from 70s songwriters, like Jackson Browne and Randy Newman, whose music filled his childhood home and from his contemporaries (Feist, Leif Vollebekk, The Barr Brothers). Produced by Marcus Paquin (The National, Local Natives), Forever Overhead blends piano ballads with ebullient folk-rock tracks featuring Liam O'Neill (Suuns), Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), as well as Mishka Stein & Joe Grass (Patrick Watson).
In the album's opening track "Dance," Baker moves alongside soft piano chords as buoyant, 70s pop style instrumentation and a piercing guitar riff steadily build, bolstering his words of longing. He sings of connectivity and the tender emotions that are coupled with glances across a gym's confetti-lined linoleum floor, the air thick with potential. Like Forever Overhead as a whole, Baker brings beauty and hope into listeners' lives.
Tim Baker is a singer-songwriter from the friendliest province of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador. The earth loving, earnest singer played over 800 shows with Hey Rosetta!, prior to their hiatus and his 2019 solo debut on Arts & Crafts. During the pandemic, Baker created a recording studio at the then covid-closed Fogo Island Hotel, a world famous, futuristic building on an isolated island in the North Atlantic. What came of those sessions is Baker's sophomore LP - with Randy Newman flavored ballads, Animal Collective rhythms, and lush arrangements heard on recent Father John Misty albums. "The Festival'', produced by Baker and long-time collaborator, Marcus Paquin (The Weather Station, The National) and mixed by DJ Goodwin (Bob Weir, Kevin Morby) in New York will be released in Fall 2022.
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More about Tim Baker
At the end of 2017, twelve years after their inception, the multi-award winning band, Hey Rosetta! went on hiatus, after selling 10,000 tickets to five farewell shows. For the band's principal songwriter and lead vocalist Tim Baker, this was the start of a new chapter.
On his debut solo album Forever Overhead, Baker warmly welcomes you to it. The first words we hear him sing, on the first single "Dance," is akin to a toast: "here's to the other side." What follows are eleven songs that centre on kinship and show that Baker's sharp songwriting, the heart of Hey Rosetta!, is as affecting as ever.
When crafting the album, Baker drew from 70s songwriters, like Jackson Browne and Randy Newman, whose music filled his childhood home and from his contemporaries (Feist, Leif Vollebekk, The Barr Brothers). Produced by Marcus Paquin (The National, Local Natives), Forever Overhead blends piano ballads with ebullient folk-rock tracks featuring Liam O'Neill (Suuns), Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), as well as Mishka Stein & Joe Grass (Patrick Watson).
In the album's opening track "Dance," Baker moves alongside soft piano chords as buoyant, 70s pop style instrumentation and a piercing guitar riff steadily build, bolstering his words of longing. He sings of connectivity and the tender emotions that are coupled with glances across a gym's confetti-lined linoleum floor, the air thick with potential. Like Forever Overhead as a whole, Baker brings beauty and hope into listeners' lives.
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More about Tim Baker
At the end of 2017, twelve years after their inception, the multi-award winning band, Hey Rosetta! went on hiatus, after selling 10,000 tickets to five farewell shows. For the band's principal songwriter and lead vocalist Tim Baker, this was the start of a new chapter.
On his debut solo album Forever Overhead, Baker warmly welcomes you to it. The first words we hear him sing, on the first single "Dance," is akin to a toast: "here's to the other side." What follows are eleven songs that centre on kinship and show that Baker's sharp songwriting, the heart of Hey Rosetta!, is as affecting as ever.
When crafting the album, Baker drew from 70s songwriters, like Jackson Browne and Randy Newman, whose music filled his childhood home and from his contemporaries (Feist, Leif Vollebekk, The Barr Brothers). Produced by Marcus Paquin (The National, Local Natives), Forever Overhead blends piano ballads with ebullient folk-rock tracks featuring Liam O'Neill (Suuns), Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), as well as Mishka Stein & Joe Grass (Patrick Watson).
In the album's opening track "Dance," Baker moves alongside soft piano chords as buoyant, 70s pop style instrumentation and a piercing guitar riff steadily build, bolstering his words of longing. He sings of connectivity and the tender emotions that are coupled with glances across a gym's confetti-lined linoleum floor, the air thick with potential. Like Forever Overhead as a whole, Baker brings beauty and hope into listeners' lives.
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