Mast (musician)

Tim Conley (born January 10, 1978), better known by his stage name Mast (stylized as MAST), is a jazz artist, composer, producer and electronic musician. He resides in Los Angeles and is currently signed with Alpha Pup Records, an independent label co-founded by Daddy Kev of Low End Theory.

Mast’s most recent album is Love and War_ (released October 2016 on Alpha Pup Records), a conceptual LP structured as a three-act play.

Conley has toured throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan as a solo artist and as part of the groups Fresh Cut Orchestra, Icy Demons, and more.

In 2004 Conley released his first album titled Ocean Exposition, a conceptual instrumental jazz-fusion album inspired by his childhood living on a boat. Conley explains to U.S. 1 (newspaper): "The `Ocean' represents life, evolution and motion. The unpredictability of the Ocean in Time and Space. The `Exposition' is the gathering and display of these parts into one big piece of music. Most of the compositions are connected in some way, either borrowing melodies, grooves, or progressions from one another or simply by connecting one song or improvisation into the next." "Ocean Exposition" features Conley (guitar), Jon Thompson (soprano and tenor saxophone), Jason Fraticelli (upright bass), and Joe Falcey (drums).

In 2014, Conley was awarded a Jazz Residency Grant from the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, to commission a new work along with three other composers. The four-movement piece titled "Life Mosaic: Reflections on Birth, Adolescence, Maturity and Death" was an electronic/classical/jazz hybrid. The work debuted in June 2014, and was performed by Fresh Cut Orchestra, an 11-piece jazz ensemble.

Mast was signed to Alpha Pup Records in 2013, and released his debut album Omni i 2014. Two conceptual EPs followed, “Omniverse; Verse 1” (2014) and “Omniverse; Verse 2" (2015), and his recent release is Love and War_ (2016).

LA Weekly profiled Conley’s influential experiences at Low End Theory and his album "Love and War_": “An ambitiously massive undertaking structured like a three-act play, the record’s 17 songs are interlaced with recurring musical themes serving as characters in a sometimes painful, often vicious and always beautifully detailed story of finding love, losing love, letting go and rising above.

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