Pre-order of Miracle Focus. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Includes digital pre-order of Miracle Focus.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around June 7, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$21USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
- Full-color jacket with full-color inner sleeve
- Black vinyl
Includes digital pre-order of Miracle Focus.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around June 7, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$20USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
- Packaged in a gatefold full-color wallet
Includes digital pre-order of Miracle Focus.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Hello! Tim here. My band is called Strand of Oaks. This is my eighth record and it’s called Miracle Focus.
I spent over three years building Miracle Focus. In the midst of writing, I became a painter and spent two seasons acting on a television show (Mayans MC). The dichotomy of painting for days in my garage and then flying out to LA to play a villainous biker on TV was one of the most thrilling experiences of my life.
The idea of Miracle Focus was born out of one simple concept: to make people feel good. Throw in a healthy mix of Ram Dass, yoga, Freddie Mercury, Alice Coltrane, and Beastie Boys, plus over a year of writing and building the extremely dense architecture of the songs, and Miracle Focus was born. The result is FUN, wild, rhythmic music filled with synth layering and mantra-like lyrics intended to uplift and hopefully bring some light to whoever listens.
In many ways, this record is a love letter to bliss. Through meditation, I found a way to connect with something greater, a positive force that allowed me to write music as a manual towards a more love-focused life. And the miracles I refer to aren’t asking the universe for anything; it’s just acknowledging and celebrating this complex beautiful moment that we all get to share. It will be gone, it will re-emerge as something new, that will be gone, repeat....repeat...repeat…this eternal cycle. My most sincere hope is that whoever listens might through sonic osmosis experience a similar joy.
Sending peace and love. Thank you for your time.
-Tim
credits
releases June 7, 2024
All Songs by - Timothy Showalter (Beaver Oaks Music ASCAP)
Produced and Performed by - Timothy Showalter and Kevin Ratterman
Special Guest Vocals - Lacey Guthrie
Recorded In
(Future Temple - Austin, TX and Invisible Island - Los Angeles, CA)
Mixed and Mastered by - Kevin Ratterman
Photography by Greg Vrotsos
Paintings by Timothy Showalter
Miracle Focus would not be possible without the love and support of:
Sue Showalter, My Family, Kevin, Lacey, Greg, Elgin James, Chris Swanson, Brain Sampson, Jenny O, Kim Krans, Mayans Family, Kirk Goldsberry, Ian Rogers, Tyler Barstow, Bruce Warren, and my beloved Strand of Oaks Community
Eternal Gratitude to Alice Coltrane and Ram Dass for providing a path towards liberation
Father John Misty is so good to listen to when I want to relax. My cat used to seem to like the music too, and we would both chill and listen to the FJM vinyls I own. This album on bandcamp was a nice FJM treat. Michelle May
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