Pat Kinsella

Pat (Patrick) Kinsella is an indie American musician/graphic artist/poet. He is known most for his self-produced solo musical works. His compositions range from experimental music to ambient to blues to rock to jazz fusion to mainstream jazz to classical-influenced progressive rock. His work is frequently heard on the alternative radio shows on Cleveland Ohio area college radio stations (WCSB, WUJC, WKSU). In his work, he plays all the instruments himself, and serves as recording engineer. While known primarily as a guitar player (on which he is most adept), he also handles electric bass, keyboards, guitar synthesizers, trumpet, koto and the 2-stringed Uzbeki doutar as well as an assortment of ethnic (primarily Indian) drums. He is rather prolific, with 18 full length releases between 1986 and 2005.
Kinsella recorded his first musical works at the age of 18, releasing self-produced indie cassette tapes which were tracked on analog recording equipment in his home studio. Sales were very minimal. In his late 30s he began working with strictly digital recording and releasing (still as an indie, as he continues to be today) CDs. Over the years he gained technical proficiency in recording as well as production techniques (as well as a improving his skill on a wide array of instruments).

Releases to date:

No Longer Available:
Some Say It With Words
A Butterfly in Caterpillar's Clothing
The Rage of The Seas, The Quiet of The Depths
Eyes That Hide in The Night
North America
Tableaux du Forêts du British Columbia
Dining By The Light of A Collapsing Star

Currently available:
Entropy’s Child
Compelling, evocative, poignant instrumental compositions; blending elements of jazz, experimental, grunge, ambient and ethnic musics into a style of it's own. Rhythmically, harmonically, texturally, intellectually and emotionally complex; yet accessible.

Apeksha and Vishada
Apeksha and Vishada are Sanskrit terms. Apeksha is the expectation of an outcome, hope, worldly desire. And Vishada is frustration, despondency, despair. I don't know Sanskrit, not more than a couple words, but I looked these words up because Sanskrit seemed like an appropriate language for what I was trying to express.

Clear Blue Cemetery Sky?
On this project Pat Kinsella plays electric and acoustic guitars, resonator, guitar synthesizer, fretless bass, digital piano, djembe, clay madal, bhangra dhol and darbuka.

Two-thirds of the way through completing this project, in 2005, he suffered a SubArachnoid (brain) Hemorrhage. While rehabilitating at home after being released from the hospital, he recorded 'LifeFlight' (named for the critical care helicopter which flew him to the Neurosurgery ICU when he had the hemorrhage). Then shortly afterwards he wrote and recorded 'Out Of The Blue (for Lynne)' for his new love (who is now his wife).

The writing and recording for this project was completed in mid-2005, but it was not released until 2008. When asked why there was this gap, Pat says "I felt that i wanted to add SOMETHING more, but wasn't sure what. But in early 2008 I started focusing on my bass playing and formally working on some of the technique things i had never learned. So along the way i started thinking that whatever I did in the future was probably going to go in a pretty different direction than 'Clear Blue Cemetery Sky?' was already going."

Regarding the title, Pat says he thought of the title 'Clear Blue Cemetery Sky?' in late 2005 when contemplating the imagery in the poem 'Les Corbeaux' by Arthur Rimbaud. He says "I've always found cemeteries to be very peaceful and contemplative places, particularly on a nice cool clear autumn day. But then between 2005 and 2008, as time elapsed and new experiences occurred, what started out as a simple feeling he was trying to summarize in that title began to change into something more complex, and i suppose more reality-based. So now the title is 'Clear Blue Cemetery Sky?' It may seem like a tiny thing, but to me that question mark denotes the concept of "IS everything going to be all rosy?". It begins calling a lot of assumptions into question. Things can and do change just like THAT, then all ones priorities, perhaps the whole crux of ones existence, can be TOTALLY different than what is was five minutes prior."

Curandera
The current project with which Pat Kinsella is involved as of this date (May 2008). No further information available at this time.

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