jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near

About Me

Here and now acoustic music. Jon Chinn is an original talent ,Raw and mesmeric . Jon Chinn continues to have a massively varied musical journey. Stories and journies. RATS IN THE REEDS will be finished very soon! This has turned into a live band, and will continue to develop. Psychedelic, acoustic, ambiant, computers. Progressive, experimental. Songs from london and adrenaline existence. Influenced by the ideas of measurement and the search for a purpose, when attitudes become form, thoughts made visible.AVAILABLE RECORDINGS:Cornish Music Vol 4 www.cornishmusic.com compelation of current fantastic cornish music. Top or the Hill Records.SONGS FROM THE ROAD TO WELLTOWN EP www.jonchinn.co.ukMainly written in a tent on Bodmin Moor round the back of Saint Breward or in Giles's Truck at Trebarwith.ARROW VALLEY INTROSPECTIVE EP www.jonchinn.co.ukBorn in the Arrow Valley, river flow for me, The river Arrow flows through my birth place studley 15 miles outside Birmingham. Stories of Free festivals, innercity adventures and burnout. Intense and Dark .NOW IS A SHIP www.cornishmusic.comCD Lp combining both above eps.

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Member Since: 10/17/2006
Band Website: jonchinn.co.uk
Band Members: Jon Chinn - Guitar,cello Banjo vocals and programming Dan -- Precussion. Pheebs - Viola/Flute/vocals. chez - vocals and whispers. Andy - bass on occasions. Andy - trumpet ( comming soon). Giles - om space vibe and fashon/hair design
Influences: Very wide, trying to keep it pure at the moment with stories and guitar. eugene powell, skip james, john Hurt, jimi hendrix, free, led zep, little feat all sorts of country & folk. Julian cope, echo & the bunneymen, Joy Division, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, Knocker Jungle, Nick Cave , steve hillage, radio head, The residents, Talking Heads, PJ Harvey, Hawkwind, gong it goes on.
Sounds Like: WHAT THEY HAVE SAID: You're making sounds that will compare favourably with anything contemporary. To all intents and purposes you're the next Jon Chinn, and he's got a lot going for him. ROY HARPER.Hey Jon, also really enjoyed your set on Friday. Hope to play together again some time. NOEL PRIOR BAND"His music will appeal just as much to fans of trad Bluesand Folk as to worshippers of cult,Modern Songwriters like Micah P Hinson, King Creosote and Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous. Go Check him Out !" - Lee Trewhela. - - CORNISH GUARDIAN -"Too Dark for Totnes" ( referring to Arrow valley introspective EP) Willows" too bleak for folk clubs can't be a bad thing can it ?""LowDown and intense in Mark Lanagan's Whiskey and brimstone territory"" Special" Mr Kennedy"SEND IT TO ME" Mr Cope"Beatiful" Rosa Rebeka" Too Modern For a Traditional folk club like Bodmin" ( name with held)" Thank you" ROBERT PLANT ( when i finally unfrose and thanked him for Zepplin the second time I met him in SPAR, Kinver)
Record Label: lifecycle recordings/ top of the hill
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

no huskies

anyway, there it was. All there was were rice cakes, ambient vinyl and doubt. Then, having spent the last time portion burrowing around in the mud, deep underground, the light shone and like orp...
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:36:00 PST

trumpet.

trumpets. Andy did a fine job improvising around themes, implying moods. beatiful. whole scale no scale. Two songs. polarised ideas, freeform and controled melody. I'll mix and place on myspace shortl...
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:25:00 PST

Spring came early

Spring didn't just jump in, like it was just a number competition.Spring carefully investigated my motives before commiting. This leads me to thinking that in a world of self designed bubbl...
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:38:00 PST

come in film

A bit of the background to the film. This is an edit version, not the full one. Filmed in brittany,cornwall, wales and staffordshire. I will be starting to use these shorts as backprojection at gigs&n...
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:58:00 PST

I give you life

I make no excuses for this parental moment. My 9 year old son wrote this at school. Take it or leave it.I give you life.You give me deathI give you fishyou give me toxic riversI give you trees.you giv...
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:11:00 PST

digital stomach

22 hours straight setting up computers for a rapid recording slot that may not happen cause my body appears to be revolting, and I don't think anyone else wants to play.I have been up all night, drift...
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:49:00 PST

woman got a beard

woman got a beard,woman got a beard,woman got a beard,take your mind off the hand you cannot see.Pillar of salt,pillar of salt,you knew to much,you wanted to much.measurement and control,The infinate ...
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:26:00 PST

electricity flows through me.

My son thinks that all things have feelings, how do you structure your world ?wow, back with a bang. Since the demise of acoustic number one. I rebuilt my model 6 electric git box and started re...
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:22:00 PST

Bubble comrades obscure

Transition time again, could feel it comming on just before going to europe, broke my main guitar in a freak accident and have returned to full band format recording wise. It's a virtual band cause th...
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:07:00 PST

one shoe on, one shoe off

Broke my main guitar last night, fell over and snapped the headstock at the nut. I'm at a loss for words. Never happen to me before. So I am at a loss.
Posted by jon chinn The epic rats in the reeds ep is near on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:19:00 PST