| Daniel Patrick Quinn | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 February 1981 |
| 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 |
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.
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