Daniel Patrick Quinn

Daniel Patrick Quinn
Born	26 February 1981 (1981-02-26) (age 30)
Origin	Lancaster, England, UK
Genres	Experimental music Folk music Drone music Art rock Ambient music
Instruments	Vocals Guitar Synthesizer Keyboards Violin Percussion
Years active	2003–2008
Labels	Suilven Recordings Wee Black Skelf
Associated acts	One More Grain Gyratory System Kurt Doles

Daniel Patrick Quinn (born 26 February 1981, Ipswich, England) is best known as a British musician, composer, producer and performer. Founder of 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 he also collaborated. Quinn's work is difficult to pigeonhole, seemingly taking influence from many 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. More recently he founded the London-based group One More Grain, whose second album, Isle of Grain, was released 28 January 2008 on White Heat Records to considerable critical acclaim including Sunday Times Album of the Week feature and airplay including BBC Radio 1. Quinn contributed to trumpeter Andrew Blick's solo project Gyratory System and was working on a new Afrobeat-inspired solo album Acting The Rubber Pig when he announced his retirement from music primarily as a result of lack of substantial industry funding for the group. A posthumous One More Grain 7" single of the traditional English song Scarborough Fair was released via Static Caravan in 2008. Quinn then moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, and oversaw In Nem, a New York minimalist-inspired gamelan recording project in Central Java as well as writing liner notes for Trance Gamelan in Bali. He is now writer and editor for an Indonesian volcano website Gunung Bagging detailing all peaks in the country with 1000 metres topographic prominence known as the Ribus.

Discography

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

With One More Grain

• Pigeon English (album) (Victory Garden) 2007
• Live in Brighton (Victory Garden / Static Caravan, 3" cd) 2007
• Having A Ball (White Heat, 7" single) 2008
• Isle of Grain (White Heat) 2008
• Scarborough Fair b/w Giriama Wedding (Static Caravan, 7" single) 2008

Compilation appearances

• Nine Standards Rigg on cover cd, issue 13 of Is this music? magazine 2005
• TheFirstTen Suilven Recordings sampler (Suilven Recordings) 2005
• The Burryman on Sonic Arts Network cd The Topography of Chance 2006
• Figure of Eight - instrumental demo on cover cd, issue 1 of Plus One Lung photozine 2006
• Tropical Mother-in-Law on free All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival) cd 2007

External links

• The Times (London): Review of Ridin' The Stang by Pete Paphides
• Interview on Whisperin' and Hollerin' by Tim Peacock
• Interview on Mouvement Nouveau by Tobias Fischer
• Ambient Music: Suilven Recordings
• Playlouder: Review by Luke Turner of Ridin' The Stang
• Sunday Times (London): Review by Stewart Lee of Don't Look Down by Crowell, Doles and Quinn
• Daniel Patrick Quinn on Myspace

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Date of birth	26 February 1981
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