1k Recordings

03/02/2026

NEW TO THE 1k SHOP:
Here's some amazing music to take your mind off of things for awhile.

This recording is The Stream by Doug Hirlinger & Tim Motzer.
We are adding 6 limited handpainted CD editions, painted, signed, dated
by Tim featuring his abstract artwork—on 5in x 10in acrylic on white gatefold, with white CD, inside a plastic clear sleeve—melding music and art. Suitable for framing.

buy/listen==>https://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-stream

Doug and Tim played recently at The First Unitarian Chuch in Philadelphia and it was an incredible night of music. "...pushing boundaries and sounds further into new language. It is indeed exciting to listen to the unfolding motion as Motzer's instinctive guitar & electronic abstractions and Hirlinger's dynamism in rhythm, polymetrics, nuance, and propulsion on the drums leads to striking new musical territories. Deep listening between the players is obviously stirring the daring interplay in this supersonic percussive long-form odyssey."

Dive in to this album and get one of these unique paintings while you can.
buy/listen==>https://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-stream

03/01/2026

LISTEN: Digging in the 1k Archives to 2004: Here's a song about life for your Sunday: Starship. This originally appeared on a King Britt CD compilation back in the day. Hope it will make you feel better. https://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/track/starship

Claudio Rochat-Felix Meehan Tim Motzer

03/01/2026

REVIEW:

The music lends itself this meditated vibe to get you through the snowiest day of your life.

02/10/2026

Brand new record out on 1k, Frozen Holy Water, featuring Julie Slick & Tim Motzer in textural, cinematic, cyclical, ambient excursions. It's a gorgeous album. Add this 48k, 24bit hi-resolution download to your collection today!

LISTEN, BUY: https://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/album/frozen-holy-water

"If there are musicians who are equally adept in experimenting in solitude, with consistently impressive results, and in bouncing their ideas off like-minded performers, Julie Slick and Tim Motzer belong to this elite category of creators. Both of them have solo records and both of them love teamwork too, being part of various bands, including, respectively, THE CRIMSON PROJEkCT and PAKT; more so, these artists collaborated previously – but never as a self-sufficient two-piece unit, which was exactly what they went for recently.

The result of Motzer and Slick’s sessions is an album titled “Frozen Holy Water” – that they describe as “somber vignettes, crystalline soliloquies, and glacial tone poems of frozen sound under blankets of snow” – and available currently only in digital form Bandcamp.

How did it come to exist?

“Julie and I have been friends for a long time,” explains Tim, “we played together in a lot of different situations over the years, and she’s also a part of SECRET VOICES’ - ‘Caravan’ album that came out recently on 1k, playing bass on that. And now we got together last January just to improvise, as live duo, in my studio, Julie on bass and pedals and me on guitars and electronics. We recorded close to two hours of material: very ambient, textural, cyclic, and cinematic. The ideas happen as you’re playing – they come through – and there was a lot of magic and beautiful moments on these recordings. So I went through the material, edited it and produced ten songs that I felt were really striking and emotional.”

JULIE SLICK
& TIM MOTZER –
Frozen Holy Water (1k079)

1. Permafrost
2. Frozen Holy Water
3. Slow Drifts
4. Refuge
5. Crystalline
6. Snow Moon (Blues)
7. Crystal Forest
8. Diamond Dust
9. Snaw-ghast
10. Glacial

https://dmme.net/julie-slick-and-tim-motzer-team-up-for-ambient-album/

11/09/2025

PAKT doing a short run in December kicking it off at Jammin Java in Vienna VA featuring the legendary Percy Jones on bass, Alex Skolnick, Kenny Grohowski, Tim Motzer. Tickets available now from the venue website. See you there!

07/22/2025

A cool hit with Percy Jones, Kenny Grohowski, Tim Motzer in Brooklyn at Umbra with Khem on Friday night! Join us!

07/22/2025

King Crimson alumni & buds Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter, & Trey Gunn plus Tim Motzer solo! Not to be missed!! 118NORTH in Wayne PA! Please share
Tickets: https://tixr.com/pr/o/140313

07/07/2025