Tim Chaisson

Artist Information

Biography

With 2009’s Broken Hearted Beat, audiences were introduced to a golden- voiced young performer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a mosaic- like approach to writing music named Tim Chaisson. The album – Chaisson’s fourth, but first to hit the national landscape – borrowed from a wide range of influences and featured healthy amounts of rock, pop, and country at its core; however, with his newest album, The Other Side, the pride of PEI is quite literally going back to his roots.
A humble and soft-spoken musician, Chaisson began performing publically during primary school in a family Celtic ensemble before embracing his inner songwriter as a teenager and self-releasing four albums. The latest of those was Broken Hearted Beat, which had a lot of attentive ears turning eastward.
Since its release, Chaisson has been added to the roster of Bumstead Productions, ventured across Australia on two successful solo tours, hit #1 on the MuchMoreMusic Countdown, and performed to ever-expanding audiences across Canada from club and festival stages alike. He’s also amassed his share of awards and accolades, including COCA Emerging Artist of the Year and Music PEI Touring Artist of the Year in 2012, on top of being chosen as Musical Director for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s highly- publicized Royal Visit to PEI in 2011.
The Other Side, recorded at Woodshed Studio with producer Colin Linden (Bruce Cockburn, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings), offers a stripped-down and intimate taste of Chaisson’s honest and heartfelt writing. The album takes on a tinge of Maritime roots and folk, incorporating an array of acoustic instruments and a warm, transparent production style. The arrangements are lush but subdued, keeping Chaisson’s vocals and guitar at the heart of the 11 tracks.
“Having all of these talented musicians in the same room and letting the tape roll was pretty magical,” Chaisson says. “This record is a result of us capturing the raw energy that is very hard to describe.”
Songs like “Bail You Out” feature an upbeat, vibrant energy rooted in rock and full of memorable vocal melodies while others like “Til The Sun Comes Up,” featuring Chaisson on the fiddle, carry an influence of classic country. “The Healing” showcases the artist in perhaps his purest form – a stripped acoustic number with delicate vocals ranging from lower-register whispers to sultry falsettos, his signature silky-smooth delivery paving the
way. The culmination of what Chaisson offers is heard in the album’s lead single, “Beat This Heart,” a duet with critically-heralded songstress Serena Ryder featuring simple-but-stunning vocal harmonies atop hints of pop, folk, country, and everything else this impressive young songwriter has to offer.
Lyrically, The Other Side explores Chaisson’s expanding breadth of life experience, both from an intimate and personal perspective through to a more universal take on subjects including love and loss, friendship and loneliness, isolation and fulfillment. “These lyrics are very close to me,” he notes, and that’s more than apparent in his delivery throughout the album.
An extremely gifted performer, Chaisson has always shone brightest from the stage. Fortunately for music fans, he’ll be touring extensively in support of his latest well into 2013, including another trek to Australia. And regardless of whether he’s joined onstage by a full band or simply his guitar, mandolin, and fiddle, Chaisson makes his craft look absolutely effortless – the mark of a true artist.
Tim Chaisson’s profile has already expanded well beyond the Maritimes and into new international markets thanks to the Cinderella-like success of Broken Hearted Beat and a steady streak of touring. Now, with The Other Side, Chaisson is poised to reach a new plateau in his burgeoning career and it won’t be long before one of the country’s most promising young talents is far more than Atlantic Canada’s best-kept secret.

Instrumentation

Solo:
Tim Chaisson - Acoustic Guitar, Keyboard, Violin, Vocals

Band:
Tim Chaisson - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Violin

Brien McCarthy - Bass Guitar

Nat Lamoureux - Drums

Tian Wigmore - Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals

Discography

Tim Chaisson - "Something Acoustic" (2004)
Tim Chaisson - "Even" (2006)
Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold - "Broken Hearted Beat" (2009)
Tim Chaisson - "The Other Side" (2012)

Official Website

http://www.timchaisson.com

Links

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Audio

• Beat This Heart (MP3 Master)
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• Blast Your Way Out (MP3 Master)
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• The Other Side (MP3 Master)
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• Bail You Out (MP3 Master)
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Video

The Making of 'Broken Hearted Beat' Album - EPK

Photo Gallery

Press

• Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold "Broken Hearted Beat" [+ Show ]
  

  This won't be the first time you'll hear me say this (indeed, you may have already heard me say it):...This won't be the first time you'll hear me say this (indeed, you may have already heard me say it): When Bob Segarini talks, I listen. Lately, it has even gone the other way. Recently, I sent him a tip about Lake Charles, Louisiana's best kept secret (though secret no longer), Research Turtles, and he made the comment that were he once again twenty, that would be the band he would like to be in. If you know Segarini and his history in music (Family Tree, Roxy, The Wackers, The Dudes, and Segarini--- the band), you know what high praise that is.
  Now, Segarini is not the kind of guy who takes without giving back. He in turn handed me a list of a number of worthy lesser knowns, Canada's bubbling-unders so to speak, and in wading through them (Well, 'wading' is not really the term. I really do have a passion for the underdog, especially the underdog musician), one seemingly 'okay' band snuck up behind me and, after a third listen, clubbed me over the head. No, I would not be a member of their band even at twenty, mainly because my talents are limited to listening when it comes to music. Still, I am one hell of a listener and when Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold broke through the white noise it was akin to waking the morning after a monumental drunk and finding I had no hangover.
  The cool thing about Broken Hearted Beat is that it is a team effort. True, Chaisson is the voice (and good voice it is), but voice is only a part of this equation. This album is song-driven and you can thank not only Chaisson but Gordie Johnson and Joel Plaskett, who collaborated in varying combinations on all twelve tracks. That's right, I said 'thank'. There are many of us who crave the song, you know? Without the gimmicks and the bells and whistles. The song is here, times twelve.
  
  There is the ska-influenced Slippin' Away, a cross between Van Morrison and Jackson Browne and of that class; You and I Somehow is what Jackson Browne used to be and maybe still is, at moments, and would have fit seamlessly with the songs on Wayne Berry's fine Home At Last album (talk about lost classics!); Browne might have slowed Souris River Girl down a bit and added his signature voice, but Chaisson does fine on his own, thank you very much; Real is of the cloth of Perfect (see below) and has airplay written all over it, if airplay means anything these days; and Take a Breath, thanks to piano bedrock, is pure pop closer.
  Perfect? It sounds like a thousand things you've heard before except it doesn't. Upbeat and poppy, it rides the beat effortlessly, the chorus full of the melody and harmony which made many of the early rockers the successes they became. It isn't the hook as much as it is the combination of beat, sound and lyrics. Call if Soft Rock or whatever you want, it encompasses all that would have made it a smash back in the mid- to late-seventies and would still today if the structure of the music industry was not so damaged.
  And then there is I'll Have You Know. Few remember a group called Morning, an early seventies Los Angeles group which released two albums to little response. Their second, Struck Like Silver, had a slowed-down rendering of the Hoyt Axton-penned Never Been to Spain which left the Three Dog Night version in the dust. Chaisson and crew on I'll Have You Know reprise the sound and feel of the Morning arrangement, the chances of their having heard of Morning monumentally slim. Music is a cycle, I guess. This is the kind of cycle I love.
  With as much good music out there as there is (and there is pull-entee, believe me!), I have heard very few arrtists of this genre (vocal pop, I would say it is) who impress. This impresses me muchly, to borrow a friend's phrase, and I owe Mr. Segarini a debt of gratitude. With as much music as I find surrounding me, there is always room for artists like Chaisson and crew. Good is good. I like it. A lot.
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• Working w/ Gordie Johnson [+ Show ]
  

  "Let me brag about my friend Tim Chaisson. I was originally impressed with him as a songwriter but t..."Let me brag about my friend Tim Chaisson. I was originally impressed with him as a songwriter but throughout the process of recording this record I've come to realize that Tim is not only a great vocalist but also a multi-instrumentalist with talent far beyond his years. I even got him to play on my new record."
  - Gordie Johnson
  

• Co-writing w/ Joel Plaskett [+ Show ]
  

  "Tim's got a great ear for pop melody and a natural voice. This combined with a unique rhythm to...
  "Tim's got a great ear for pop melody and a natural voice. This combined
  with a unique rhythm to his singing makes his songs really catchy. It was
  fun to work on tunes with him."
  
  - Juno nominee, Joel Plaskett

• Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold - Album in Review [+ Show ]
  

  Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold – Here NB With a little help from his friends Joel Plaskett and Gordi...Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold – Here NB
  
  With a little help from his friends Joel Plaskett and Gordie Johnson, PEI's Tim Chaisson releases Broken Hearted Beat, the first release with his band Morning Fold after three solo efforts. And while hints of Plaskett lurks in the shadows of this record, Chaisson and his band carve a more direct pop path through these 12 songs.
  
  Album openers Lay Low and Broken Hearted Beat start this set of songs off on perfect power pop notes, while Don't Lie To Me and I'll Have You Know might very well be the songs that break Chaisson and Morning Fold out to a national audience.
  

• Broken Hearted Beat [+ Show ]
  

  "This album is fresh and fun, a music director's dream! Tim Chaisson and Morning Fold are showing t..."This album is fresh and fun, a music director's dream! Tim Chaisson and Morning Fold are showing the rest of Canada, yet again, that East Coast talent kicks ass!"

• Big winner Tim Chaisson takes SOCAN songwriter honours at Music PEI Awards [+ Show ]
  

  Prince Edward Island singer-songwriter Tim Chaisson swept five award categories in which he was nomi...Prince Edward Island singer-songwriter Tim Chaisson swept five award categories in which he was nominated -- including the SOCAN-sponsored songwriter of the year -- at the 2007 Music PEI Awards, held Nov. 10 at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, PEI.
  
  In addition to the songwriting prize, Chaisson's wins included entertainer, male vocalist, weekend warrior and pop recording of the year (for his third album, Even).

• Lakewind Sound Studios [+ Show ]
  

  "With the incredible amount of new music that is served up to us everyday it's nearly impossible to ..."With the incredible amount of new music that is served up to us everyday it's nearly impossible to stand out from the pack, but some things are just so good they grab your attention and make you listen. Timothy Chaisson stands out with the release of his latest CD "Even". His voice is heartfelt and connected to every lyric and musical nuance in each of the ten songs, all of which were written and played by Timothy. There is a feeling of life lived and a genuine delivery that speaks of a straight forward but engaging young songwriter who has something to say with this CD and who should be heard.
  There is a special young talent stepping forward here whose abilities can't help but impress anyone fortunate enough to hear".
  - Fred Lavery

• Five awards; A real charm for Bear River Musician [+ Show ]
  

  For Timothy Chaisson, winning at the Music P.E.I. Awards show Saturday night was like riding a rolle...For Timothy Chaisson, winning at the Music P.E.I. Awards show Saturday night was like riding a roller coaster.
  At first the climb was slow. But over the evening momentum built.
  And by the second half of the show the Bear River native had reached the highest point and was zooming down the track at record speed.
  “It’s amazing. It’s awesome. It’s overwhelming. I’ve never won so many awards before,’’ said Chaisson, who took home five awards, including male vocalist of the year and entertainer of the year.
  At the show, which took place at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Chaisson was noticeably moved.
  “It really means a lot to me, my guitar player Tian Wigmore and my family. We have worked really hard, especially over the past year. And this is wonderful,’’ said Chaisson, who was accompanied by band members — his brother Brent and cousin J.J. Chaisson.

• Tim Chaisson Band [+ Show ]
  

  Here at Seneca College, King Campus, only one type of person can enjoy the performance that Tim Chai...Here at Seneca College, King Campus, only one type of person can enjoy the performance that Tim Chaisson, and his band put on. The crazed music fan.
  I first heard them play at the National COCA Conference that was held in Niagara Falls, Ontario this past May, and ever since I have been addicted to the CD.
  My job here at King Campus, is to make student life fun and enjoyable. When I was told that I need to find a good entertainer for the first year students for frosh day, I knew that Tim would do a great job. They did me the honour of having them perform at Seneca College, and out on a fantastic show.
  The difference that I noticed between them and many other performers was that they all got into the music. Bystanders noticed that these musicians/performers are enjoying playing music to entertain the crowd as much as the crowd was entertained by them.
  Tim Chaisson has been touring across the country and has also gotten a little taste of the U.S. With three albums already released, the twenty year old has a lot of performing under his belt already.
  I would like to thank Tim Chaisson, JJ Chaisson, Tian Wigmore, and Brent Chaisson for the amazing show that they put on. Hopefully they will be back soon to put on another show here at Seneca College King Campus.
  -Ashley Yuval, Seneca College
  

• Young Popster at St. Peter's Courthouse Theatre [+ Show ]
  

  As the sun poured in orange and bright through the rustic windows of the St. Peter's Courthouse Thea...As the sun poured in orange and bright through the rustic windows of the St. Peter's Courthouse Theater, it provided a natural spotlight for Chaisson as he came out and addressed his applauding audience, numbering just over 40.
  "It says on the sign out front, Timothy Chaisson & Friends," he said. "But, I guess I have no friends," he smiled, adding that his usual sidekick, Elmer Deagle was in France. "I guess you guys'll just have to put up with me tonight."
  Chaisson promptly proceeded into his first tune of the evening, The Lighthouse's Tale, a quiet, contemplative song, depicting the sense of loneliness and isolation surrounding the life of a lighthouse.
  Warmly setting the mood with this opening number, he continued on his set, playing and singing a good handful of songs from his newly released CD, Even, which is now just over a month old.
  With songs like One More Try, Untitled, and All Over Again (my pick to be his primary hit from the new CD), the 19-year-old put on a well-done solo display of his budding pop songwriting talent where he is showing musical maturity beyond his years in both his guitar playing and vocal abilities.
  And then, in the most intriguing of musical juxtapositions, he played the fiddle.
  "My last name is Chaisson," he explained, as he got out his fiddle, "and if someone says the name Chaisson around here, they automatically think of the fiddle."
  So, the mood of the evening then swung from P.E.I pop, of a John Mayer/Dallas Green/ Howie Day sort of vibe, to fiddle traditionals of a Peter Chaisson sort of flare.
  The first 45-minute half of the evening was then rounded off with a couple more guitar and vocal songs before a short intermission.
  A piano performance of a couple of fiddle tunes (to add another instrument to the mix), an audience participation step-dancing lesson that he led and several more pop creations, including his latest release, Better Way, which is now number 1 on the East Coast Countdown, stood out as shining moments from the second half of the show.
  The night was finished off with an eloquent bow as he concluded the last song and then hopped down from the stage to chat to his audience members on their way out.
  Chaisson's new album, Even, in which he plays every instrument you hear, except in a handful of songs, can be picked up at music stores across the island.
  The follow up to his 2002 debut, Something Acoustic, I would recommend this CD to any fan of contemporary acoustic pop rock or to those who simply might just wanna' support a local talented Islander on his rise to success.

Setlist

The set lists are comprised of original pop/folk songs

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