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Daniel Patrick Quinn
Born (1981-02-26) 26 February 1981 (age 43)
Ipswich, England
OriginLancaster, Lancashire, England
GenresExperimental music
Folk music
Drone music
Art rock
Ambient music
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar, keyboards, violin, percussion
Years active2003–present
LabelsSuilven Recordings
Wee Black Skelf
Member ofOne More Grain Kurt Doles
Websitehttp://danielpatrickquinn.bandcamp.com
Musical artist

Daniel Patrick Quinn (born 26 February 1981) is a British musician, composer, producer, performer, author and creative thinking consultant. Quinn founded the experimental Edinburgh-based record label Suilven Recordings (2003 – early 2006), which released his own works and that of postminimalist ambient American composers DAC Crowell and Kurt Doles, with whom Quinn also collaborated.

Early life

Quinn was born in Ipswich, England on 26 February 1981.

Career

Quinn's work is influenced from numerous genres, including European folk and folklore, pastoral ambient, punk and post-punk, minimalism, classical, spoken-word, jazz, world and avant-garde. His 2005 composition The Burryman, which includes narration by Duncan Grahl regarding the Scottish custom of the Burryman, was featured on the Sonic Arts Network compilation, curated by comedian and writer, Stewart Lee. Quinn founded the London-based group, One More Grain, and its second album, Isle of Grain, was released on 28 January 2008 by White Heat Records. The album was received critical acclaim and was granted the Sunday Times Album of the Week feature and received airplay on BBC Radio 1.

Quinn contributed to trumpeter Andrew Blick's solo project, Gyratory System. He was working on a new Afrobeat-inspired solo album, Acting The Rubber Pig, when he announced his retirement from music. Quinn cited the lack of substantial industry funding for the group as the primary reason for his retirement. A posthumous One More Grain 7" single of the traditional English song Scarborough Fair was released via Static Caravan in 2008.

Following the announcement of his retirement, Quinn moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, and oversaw "In Nem", a New York minimalist-inspired, gamelan recording project in Central Java. This was in addition to writing liner notes for Trance Gamelan in Bali. Quinn then became a writer and editor for an Indonesian volcano website, Gunung Bagging, which provides information on the peaks of the country with 1,000 metres topographic prominence, known as the Ribus.

Quinn moved back to the UK and settled in Stornoway. His EP, I, Sun, was released via Bandcamp in April 2016.

A compilation of rare and unreleased material was released in 2021 with the title Swirling In The Backyard.

Currently Quinn is working as an author on hiking and creative thinking, and as a critical thinking and creative problem solving consultant. A fourth One More Grain album is due out in 2022 via Bandcamp.

Discography

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Solo

  • The Winter Hills (Suilven Recordings) 2003
  • Jura (Suilven Recordings) 2003
  • Severed From The Land (Suilven Recordings) 2004
  • SUILVEN007 (with Beano Jameson) (Suilven Recordings) 2004
  • Ridin' The Stang (Suilven Recordings) 2005
  • Don't Look Down (with DAC Crowell and Kurt Doles) (Suilven Recordings) 2006
  • West to the Irish Sea (Wee Black Skelf, 10" compilation) 2007
  • Acting The Rubber Pig Redux 2014
  • I, Sun (EP) 2016
  • Signal Posts (EP) 2016

With One More Grain

Compilation appearances

Books

  • The Dorset Ooser (Gunung.org) 2021
  • No What What (Gunung.org) 2021
  • All The Different Yous (Gunung.org) 2021
  • Gunung Nusantara (Gunung.org) 2021


References

  1. "Gunung.org".
  2. "Quinn's Java - the Music of Daniel Patrick Quinn". Archived from the original on 28 April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
  3. "Gunung Bagging - Climbing the Mountains of Indonesia & Malaysia". Gunungbagging.com. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  4. Taylor, Luke (26 April 2016). "INTERVIEW: Daniel Patrick Quinn". The Quietus. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  5. "BBC Radio 6 Music - Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, Daniel Patrick Quinn, Daniel Patrick Quinn". BBC. 10 July 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  6. "The Quietus | Reviews | Daniel Patrick Quinn". The Quietus.
  7. "Gunung.org | High Level Thinking". Gunung.org. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  8. "Gunung.org".

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