Patrick Porter

Patrick Porter (November 18th 1977 - ) is an american singer/songwriter, novelist, and poet.

Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and raised in the isolated mountain town of Bailey, Colorado, Porter began playing music at a young age, often acting as a sit-in drummer for his father's biker bar band. As a teenager Porter began to experiment with his own songs, recording and distributing hundreds of homemade cassettes influenced by everything from the crazed jazz guitar of Sonny Sharrock to the placid strumming of Syd Barrett. As a result of these demos, Porter was signed to Camera Obscura Records, an Australian indie label who released his first full-length CDs: the shadowy, lo-fi Reverb Saved My Life (2002), and Reconsidered (2001), a disc recorded with the shoegazer group Phineas Gage.

After moving to New York in 2003, Porter recorded a handful of discs known as the "New York Trilogy", Lisha Kill (Camera Obscura, 2005), Maybe Waltz (Evelyn Records, 2004), and Skylan Mo (Asaurus Records, 2004). In 2006 he signed with Greyday Records, an indie label in Portland Oregon. His most recent recording, Die Wandaland, is to be released in September 2006.

Porter is also a poet and novelist of note. His first book of poetry, The Intrusive Ache of Morning, was published in 2001 by Chicago's Press of the Third Mind. His second, Nervous Halo, was published a year later on the late Paul Dilsaver's Arts and Academic Press. He has also written two novels, Kristallnacht (2001), and Apocalypse Later (2005).

Discography

Reverb Saved My Life LP (2002, Camera Obscura)

Coconut Killers EP (2002, Ostrich)

Maybe Waltz LP (2004, Evelyn Records)

Skylan Mo LP (2004, Asaurus Records)

Bittersweet At Best 7" EP (2004, Keep Recordings)

Monsters of Mope Tour EP (2005, Hijacked Records)

The GE Bootlegs (2005, Ostrich)

Lisha Kill LP (2005, Camera Obscura)

Die Wandaland LP (2006, Greyday Records)

External links

• Greyday Records