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Patrick Walsh

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****New Album Now Available****
The Science of Beauty Everywhere


I've finally finished with The Science of Beauty Everywhere, my first album since moving to France. It was an exciting process and I'm very pleased with the final result as I certainly hope you will be too. You can buy a copy by clicking on the Paypal logo below or by coming to show (I always have at least a few on-hand).
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About:
Patrick Walsh was born in Baltimore, USA in 1978. He studied jazz and classical saxophone from an early age through highschool, including time at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory.
He went on to study neuroscience at the University of Rochester. But after four years of studies and six months in Ireland he decided to pursue a career in music. He moved back to Baltimore and spent months in his brother’s home studio teaching himself how to write and record songs using Pro Tools; the end result was the album Before Boston.
In 2002, he left Baltimore for Boston and started a band, The Fifty Mission Crush, with his college roommate. They played extensivley at venues including TT the Bears, The Middle East, Skybar, the All Asia Café, Beckett’s Pub and were featured at CNC Productions’ Industry Unplugged Showcase. In late 2004 he decided to move again, this time to France.
Since arriving in Paris in September of 2004 he’s played mutliple venues including the Abracadabar, the Shebeen and the Pop-In. He was a finalist in the Paris Jeunes Talents competition, performing at the Olympia in the Spring of 2005 in front of a jury composed of the media, critics and record labels. In January of this year he headlined for the Grenoble School of Management’s Les Nuits Unplugged and in March opened the Festival des Nuits Unplugged for Martin Rappenau and Dahlia. In June, he opened for Dahlia again at the Nouveau Casino in Paris.
His influences are vast and include Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Van Morrison, John Lennon, Elliott Smith, Andrew Bird, Yo La Tengo, Pavement and XTC.
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Patrick Walsh est ne a Baltimore, USA, en 1978. Il etudie le saxophone jazz et classique au Peabody Conservatory, prestigieuse institution musicale de Baltimore. Ceci lui permet de se produire autour de Baltimore comme saxophoniste.
Apres le lycee il decide d’etudier les neurosciences a l’Universite de Rochester. Apres quatre ans d’etude dont six mois en Irlande, il decide de poursuivre une carriere musicale. Il retourne alors a Baltimore et passe de nombreux mois dans le studio prive de son frere et apprend seul a enregistrer ses propres compositions en utilsant ProTools. L’album Before Boston est le resultat de ce travail.
En 2002, il quitte Baltimore pour Boston afin de rejoindre un ami pour former le groupe The Fifty Mission Crush. Ils se produisent beaucoup sur Boston au TT the Bears, The Middle East, Skybar, the All Asia Café ou encore au Beckett’s Pub. Ils se produisent egalement a un showcase du CNC Productions’ Industry Unplugged. A la fin de l’annee 2004, Patrick Walsh decide de demenager seul en France.
Depuis qu’il habite a Paris il s’est produit dans de nombreux endroits dont l’Abracadabar, le Shebeen et le Pop-In. Au printemps 2005, il est finaliste du concours Paris Jeunes Talents et joue une audition a l’Olympia devant un jury compose de critiques, de journalistes et de reponsbales de maisons de disque. En janvier 2006, il joue a Grenoble dans le cadre du festival des Nuits Unplugged organise par Grenbole Ecole de management et en mars, il fait la premiere partie de Martin Rappeneau et de Dahlia a Grenoble. En juin, il ouvre a nouveau la scene pour Dahlia a Paris au Nouveau Casino.
Ses influences musicales sont vastes et incluent Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Van Morrison, John Lennon, Elliott Smith, Andrew Bird, Yo La Tengo, Pavement et XTC.
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Member Since: 07/03/2006
Band Website: www.patrickwalsh.net
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Influences: One highschool afternoon I put on my old vinyl and metal headphones to listen to the song "In 1983 a Merman I Shall Come to Be." It was the first time I'd really listened intently. Noel Redding's bass solo with the hi-hats panning from left to right really blew my teenage mind. That remains my largest musical influence.

Otherwise, I remember quite a few spins of an old Otis Redding record. I have an alternate version of "Dreams to Remember" where the organ just comes riding in at the end.
Sounds Like:

THE prairie-grass dividingits special odor breathing,
I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,
Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,
Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings,
Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious,
Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and commandleading, not
following,
Those with a never-quelld audacitythose with sweet and lusty flesh, clear of
taint,

Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and Governors, as to say, Who are
you?

Those of earth-born passion, simple, never-constraind, never obedient,
Those of inland America.

- Walt Whitman

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

ON INTERNET RADIO - Sat. June 23 at 11 am and Sun. June 24 at 9 am

I was interviewed a few weeks ago by Gary Huie for World Radio Paris. It's playing today at 11 am and tomorrow at 9 am on their website. You can listen here:http://wrp.free.fr/listen/
Posted by on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:34:00 GMT

Corporate

There are those in government who seek the end of government, who want nothing more than to privatize our public institutions and reduce the richness of our public voice -with its attendant demands, a...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:10:00 GMT

Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey

One of my own personal heroes:
Posted by on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:32:00 GMT

Timeline Editing


Posted by on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:31:00 GMT

I, Paroisse

The churches of Paris are all Underground, snaking under the city To pulse out waves of flesh Into the sticky summer air,The morning crush that breaks Across the altar And heaves the rotted carcassOf ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:58:00 GMT

Wires

The widest prairies have electric fences,For though old cattle know they must not strayYoung steers are always scenting purer waterNot here but anywhere. Beyond the wiresLeads them to blunder up again...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:30:00 GMT

The Believer

In response to the article 'The Believer' by Francis Collins in Salon.My own experience has been that true skepticism (forged in the laboratory) leads to a sincere questioning of basic assumptions abo...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:38:00 GMT

Jemshid, USA

"For the mythological hero is the champion not of things become but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo: Holdfast, the keeper of the past. From...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:40:00 GMT

In a Cafe Near Pigalle

What is desire but the quickening of my heart, a pulse of chemicals, a contraction and expansion. What are the streets of this city on a Tuesday morning but an empty vessel bathed in Tuesday morning l...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:44:00 GMT

Goodbye May 31st

The world is growing unstable, and everything is vibrating strangely. That external fact corresponds more and more deeply to my internal reality.I wonder if global warming will drown the coasts of my ...
Posted by on Wed, 31 May 2006 14:11:00 GMT