He is a
singer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and recording engineer/producer, who:
+ composes and produces albums and music
for film, broadcast and theatre at his Hit
City Recording, long-time fixture of now-trendy Sobro in Indianapolis;
+ performs and releases his own music
(written with longtime collaborator David Rheins) with rock band The Bleeding Hearts;
+ sings jazz standards with trio, Quintet and 15-piece Big Band and what he's calling "The Great American (and British) Songbook, Part Two (1965-Today)" with his band The List.
Tim is the grateful recipient of a 2011-2012 Creative
Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. In 2008, he was asked to participate in the Great Day In
Indy photo project, which documented over 100 notable Indiana
Tim
received an Emmy Award in 1998 for his score to ESPN-aired documentary, Hoosier Hoops: The Golden Era. His
song Tangled and Tempted was
featured in the motion picture Going
All The Way starring Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz. He composed
and produced the longtime theme for the Emmy Award-winning weekly WFYI-20
series Across Indiana
Tim is Composer-in-Residence at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis Phoenix Phoenix
Rock
critic Dave Lindquist of the Star
calls Tim's most-recent Bleeding Hearts album, Everything That Ever Was, (available on iTunes, ahem) “some of the best grown-up rock
and roll of any era.", and says the opening track, Reckless With Love “explodes
as a modern descendant of Bruce Springsteen’s Rosalita and Tom Petty’s American Girl.” Evansville, IN weekly News 4 You says, "Brickley and Rheins'
songs, chronicling loss (as in love, identity, love, home and
love) are perfectly complimented by Brickley's painstakingly-crafted
soundtracks, all the more impressive as they reference - but don't rip off -
masters like Lennon/McCartney, Bob Dylan and Paul
Westerberg. "
Through the years, he's shared the bill artists as diverse as The Beach Boys, Culture Club, Warren Zevon, Aimee Mann, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Delbert McClinton, and Squeeze.
Through the years, he's shared the bill artists as diverse as The Beach Boys, Culture Club, Warren Zevon, Aimee Mann, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Delbert McClinton, and Squeeze.
Tim is a
recording engineer/producer, whose studio, Hit
City Recording, is one of the
longest continually-operating studios in Indiana Louisville 's danny flanigan and the Rain Chorus and Detroit
