Harold Timms

Harold Timms’ musical journey has taken him from from 70’s classic rock and fusion to native-American ambient improvizations to experimental and world music to classical composing to new-age, finger-style guitar. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1980, taught guitar, bass, drums and keyboards for 16 years.

Releasing his first album in 1989, he found his musical voice in 1992 with Directions & Misdirections – Music for Acoustic Guitar & Treatments, an album of mostly Acoustic guitar instrumentals using radical alternate tunings/modes ala Michael Hedges, Anthony Phillips, Steve Hackett, and Steve Howe. Since then, Harold has explored 1)trippy compositions involving guitar, keyboards, bass, and two drummers, 2)experimental loops using echoplex and found sounds, 3) bands with keyboards, guitars, electric mandolin and lap steel, and percussion, 4) improvisations with friend John WinterHawk, a native-American Elder on flute, 5) a dreamy journey of world-beat, sonic explorations, and 6) a double CD of live performances consisting of looped keyboards & guitar with percussion, theremin and sax.

Currently, he is composing and recording all original progressive rock material with a heavy concentration on odd time signatures and polyrhythms for his band “Counts of Odd”.