Tim Rutili

Tim Rutili
Tim Rutili in 2004
Background information
Birth name	Temistocles Hugo Rutili
Born	1968/1969 Chicago, Illinois
Occupation(s)	Musician Composer filmmaker
Instrument(s)	guitarist keyboards vocals
Years active	1988 to present
Labels	Sub Pop Jealous Butcher Dead Oceans Perishable Records Thrill Jockey
Website	[1]

Tim Rutili (born Temistocles Hugo Rutili) American musician, filmmaker, and visual artist. Founder and principle songwriter for critically acclaimed bands Califone and Red Red Meat. He is also a member of the Indie rock supergroup Ugly Casanova, which included Modest Mouse singer Isaac Brock, producer and former Red Red Meat bandmate Brian Deck, and others. He is a frequent collaborator of Michael Krassner and Boxhead ensemble. He also appears on Joan of Arc's album Guitar Duets, performing a duet with Jeremy Boyle and Modest Mouse's Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks and The Moon & Antarctica.

In addition to his work with Califone and Red Red Meat, over the past twenty-five years, Rutili has contributed to hundreds of albums by a diverse group of artists as a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. He has composed and collaborated on music for television, documentary and feature films, Including; Beauty is Embarrassing, a PBS documentary about artist, designer and puppeteer, Wayne White and The Calling, a four hour PBS series exploring faith and religion. Feature film work includes; Here, Wellness, The Lost, Brawler, in collaboration with Michael Krassner on the score for Braden King’s feature film The Evening Hour. And contributions to the soundtracks for; Boss, Hannibal, The Vow, Stranger Than Fiction, Monogamy, 30 Days of Night, The Dinner, Waterloo Road and many others.

Rutili has performed worldwide and provided a live musical score to numerous films and curated programs including: Early Abstractions by Harry Smith at Images Film Festival in Toronto, as a member of Boxhead Ensemble at Doclands Film Festival in Dublin, Stories, Maps and Notes from the Half Light- live, improvised score to short films by Gem Cohen, Laura Moya, Braden King, Grant Gee, Paula Froehle, Gustav Deutch and Barbara Meter. God Builds Like Frank Lloyd Wright: Califone and the Animated Films of Brent Green at Sundance, Braden King’s HERE (The Story Sleeps) at Sundance and MoMA. Most recently, Brent Green’s A Brief Spark Bookended by Darkness at FestivAll at the Clay Center in Charleston, WV.

Rutili wrote and directed his first feature-length film All My Friends Are Funeral Singers in tandem with the creation of Califone's album of the same title. The film was accepted for competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film screened with a live musical score at Sundance, SXSW, IFC center in New York, MCA in Chicago, and other festivals, museums, and theaters. He has directed short films and music videos for musicians and bands, Veruca Salt, Iron and Wine, David Yow, Califone, Bill Fay and many others.

Select Discography

Friends of Betty

• Blind Faith II

Red Red Meat

• Red Red Meat (Perishable Records, 1992)
• Jimmywine Majestic (Sub Pop Records, 1994)
• Bunny Gets Paid (Sub Pop Records, 1995)
• There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight (Sub Pop Records, 1997)

Loftus (collaboration with Rex) (Perishable Records, 1999)

Califone

• Califone (Flydaddy Records, 1998)
• Califone (Road Cone Records, 2000)
• Roomsound (Perishable Records, 2001)
• Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People (Perishable Records / Road Cone Records, 2002)
• Deceleration One (Perishable Records, 2002)
• Quicksand / Cradlesnakes (Thrill Jockey, 2003)
• Deceleration Two (Perishable Records, 2003)
• Heron King Blues (Thrill Jockey, 2004)
• Roots & Crowns (Thrill Jockey, October 10, 2006)
• All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans, 2009)
• Stitches (Dead Oceans, 2013)
• Insect Courage EP (Future Oak 2016)

Ugly Casanova

• Diggin Holes b/w Babys Clean Conscience (Sub Pop Records, 2002)
• Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop Records, 2002)

Tim Rutili & Craig Ross

• Guitars Tuned To Air Conditioners (Jealous Butcher 2016)
• 10 Seconds To Collapse (Jealous Butcher 2018)

Tim Rutili Arthur King Presents Tim Rutili (Arroyo) Abstractions (Dangerbird 2018)

Boxhead Ensemble

• The Unseen Hand: Music For Documentary Film (Hired Hand 2014)
• Ancient Music (Meno Mosso 2016)
• Here: Chicago Sessions (Hired Hand 2017)

Soundtrack and Compilation Albums

• Stranger Than Fiction (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Sony Music Soundtrax 2006)
• Brian Reitzell - 30 Days Of Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Ipecac 2007)
• Brian Reitzell - Boss (Original Television Soundtrack) (Lakeshore Records 2013)
• Brian Reitzell - Watch Dogs (Video Game Soundtrack) (Ubisoft/Invada 2014)
• The Hired Hands: A Tribute To Bruce Langhorne (Scissor Tail 2017)

External links

• Pastry Sharp - Official Califone Website