Patrick Porter

Patrick Porter (born November 18, 1977) is an American singer/songwriter, novelist, poet, and painter.

Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and raised in the isolated mountain town of Bailey, Colorado, Porter began playing music at a young age, often acting as a sit-in drummer for his father's biker bar band. As a teenager Porter began to write his own songs, recording and distributing hundreds of homemade cassettes of wildly varying disposition and sound quality. As a result of these demos, Porter was signed to Camera Obscura Records, an Australian indie label who released his first full-length CDs: the shadowy, lo-fi "Reverb Saved My Life" (2002), and "Reconsidered" (2001), a disc recorded with the shoegazer group Phineas Gage.

After moving to New York in 2003, Porter recorded a handful of discs known as the "New York Trilogy": "Lisha Kill" (Camera Obscura, 2005), "Maybe Waltz" (Evelyn Records, 2004), and "Skylan Mo" (Asaurus Records, 2004). In 2006 he signed with Greyday Records, an indie label in Portland Oregon, who released the "Die Wandaland LP", in September 2006.

Porter is also a poet and novelist of note. His first book of poetry, "The Intrusive Ache of Morning", was published in 2001 by Chicago's Press of the Third Mind. His second, "Nervous Halo", was published a year later on the late Paul Dilsaver's Arts and Academic Press. He has also written two novels, "Kristallnacht" (2001), and "Apocalypse Later" (2005).

Porter began painting in the summer of 2006 while living in New York City, selling watercolor/crayon paintings in Union Square Park to make extra money. By the end of the year he was painting full-time and continues to work consistently both through galleries and private commissions.

Discography

*Reverb Saved My Life LP (2002, Camera Obscura)

*Coconut Killers EP (2002, Ostrich)

*Maybe Waltz LP (2004, Evelyn Records)

*Skylan Mo LP (2004, Asaurus Records)

*Bittersweet At Best 7" EP (2004, Keep Recordings)

*Monsters of Mope Tour EP (2005, Hijacked Records)

*The GE Bootlegs (2005, Ostrich)

*Lisha Kill LP (2005, Camera Obscura)

*Die Wandaland LP (2006, Greyday Records)

*This Machine Kills Bathos LP (2007, Nervous Halo)

*Secret Teta Disaster LP (2007, Nervous Halo)

External links

* [http://www.greydayrecords.com Greyday Records]
* [http://www.cameraobscura.com.au Camera Obscura Records]
* [http://www.asaurus.org Asaurus Records]