Sonic vibration from 20hz-20khz written, recorded and produced by Michael O'Shea.
Influences
Radiohead, Muse, Brazilian Girls, Nine Inch Nails, Saul Williams, TV on the Radio, Thavius Beck, Caribou, Jacques Derrida, Nietzsche, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Rauschenberg, Todd Hido, Michele Gondry, etc.
Sounds Like
Kinjac's Music is available oneline at:
iTunes, eMusic, amazon, rhapsody, napster
And at local record stores
Harvest Records
Haywood Road in West Asheville, NC
Static Age Records
Lexington in downtown Asheville, NC
In Your Ear Music Emporium
main street in downtown Sylva, NC
Three years ago Michael O'Shea moved away, and after living in Scotland, traveling to China and most of western Europe he came back to continue his philosophy degree in WNC. Instead, he met an auspicious female painter, dropped out, bought a new drum set with the tuition refund and moved to Chapel Hill to play music. After quickly becoming immersed in the music scene there, he just as quickly decided to leave to focus on expanding his musical repertoire to production and other instruments.
In the past two years Michael O'Shea has self-released two full-length solo albums and an EP under the moniker of Kinjac in a completely DIY fashion, doing all writing, recording and producing himself, (all while in school full-time and an honors student). He has shared the stage with notable names such as producer/musician Thavius Beck, hip-hop artist K-the-I???, O'Death and CJ Boyd.
This summer he spent his time doing some tracking for an Umphrey's McGee side project called Ali Baba's Tahini, producing an album for WNC-based Synthete, and touring most of the eastern seaboard and midwest playing drum set for an Asheville-based afrobeat band called Afromotive.
Blending minimalistic melodies with a din of digitized percussion "with an electronically-altered, dirt-tinged irreverence" (Performer Magazine). Percussively-based with vocal stylings "like an unhinged cabaret singer" (Performer Magazine), Kinjac’s music is a unique synthesis of the digital and organic that manages to fall outside the bounds of most categorizations.
Kinjac’s live show is a unique one-man-band phenomenon befitting his music. The multi-instrumentalist switches between singing and playing bass (with an often radically altered sound) and playing drum set, all on-top of the densely layered sonic backdrop of his prerecorded productions.
Lately, Kinjac has been busy in the studio wrapping up his next full-length album, Psychology. A sonic departure from his previous work, it will feature 13 tracks of self-reflection and musical debauchery. Check out myspace player to hear new tracks being posted as the album is finished!
His next show will be opening for the spoken word of Saul Williams at the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University. Lately he's added guest musicians to some live shows, and at this one he will be joined by Sean Smith on trumpet (Afromotive, Asheville Horns) and Jason Moore on tenor sax (Secret B-Sides).
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For booking inquires e-mail kinjacmusic@gmail.com.
thanks for the add. i believe we have eaten sushi together at some point. your music is quite nice (if we are to be speaking in understatements). keep up the positive vibes, hazlo girar
Thanks! Yea .. the recordings are live from a show at the underscore in Manhattan. We are recording an album so stay tuned. If you are ever in the city you should pop by a show.
COME SEE
Dylan Gilbert LIVE
Tuesday June 30th 2009
@ The Garage at Biltmore
101 Fairview Rd. Suite B,
Asheville, NC 28803
Cost: 5$ - Starts at 9pm
w/ Robots & Butterflies, Restrict This & We Got This
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