Matt Patrick (producer)

Matt Patrick (born June 15, 1974, St. Paul, Minnesota) is a producer, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Patrick grew up in the small community of North Branch, Minnesota, about an hour north of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Early on Patrick learned how to play piano, electric, acoustic and bass guitars and sing. After high school he began learning other instruments such as mandolin, accordion, dobro, pedal steel, Hammond organ, and various electronic synthesizers.

Patrick was the bass player and co-songwriter for the band pegtop (from 1995–2002) and also gave the group their distinct vocal harmonies. Patrick recorded five albums with pegtop producing the latest two studio albums (Run, Run & The Counting Tree).

In 2002, Patrick recorded his first solo CD titled Change which was mixed by Tom Herbers. Some of the musicians on this album were: Adam Levy (The Honeydogs), Randy Broughten (Gear Daddies, Trailer Trash) on pedal steel, Jeremy Ylvisaker, Bruce Balgaard, Brian Mangum and Chris DeWan who were regular members of his band at that time. His album had received very favorable reviews from national and international press.

2005 brought the release of his second album Time Flies. In an attempt to search for sonically unique recordings, Patrick stumbled upon the works of Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and has joined their quest for subtlety and beauty in the process of ambient recording. Brian A. Smith from the online publication Phantom Tollbooth gave Time Flies a rating of 4½ out of 5.

Alongside his own original material, Patrick has co-written songs with numerous people and has appeared as a guest musician on two Sara Groves albums (All Right Here and The Other Side of Something).

In 2005, Patrick moved to Bratislava, Slovakia to spend a year teaching English and music.

He also plays bass in the band, Greycoats. Their song "Watchman, What is Left of the Night?" was featured on the television show "Gossip Girl" in 2009 and has produced/engineered/mixed two albums for Greycoats: "Setting Fire to the Great Unknown" (2009) and "World of Tomorrow" (2013).

Currently, Matt is a full-time record producer at his recording studio, the Library, in Northeast Minneapolis. Some of the artists who have recorded at the Library include Jeremy Messersmith, John Mark Nelson, Jeremy Ylvisaker with "Guitar Party," and Red House Records artists The Pines.

Discography

• Change, 2002
• Time Flies, 2005
• "The Rest of Right Now", (Put Down the Muffin) 2005
• "Setting Fire to the Great Unknown", (Greycoats) 2008
• "World of Tomorrow", (Greycoats) 2013

External links

• The Library Recording Studio
• Matt Patrick on Myspace
• Official Greycoats website