Patrick O'Hearn

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Patrick O'Hearn (2011)

Patrick O'Hearn (born September 6, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer and musician.

O'Hearn was best known as the bass guitarist in Frank Zappa's band and played with other veterans from Zappa's bands in the new wave band Missing Persons in the early 1980s . While O'Hearn's musical repertoire spans a diverse musical palette, he is a recognized New Age artist in his solo career. In addition to solo albums, he has also composed soundtracks for film and television.

biography

O'Hearn grew up in the northwestern United States. He began his professional music career at the age of 15 when he joined the Musicians Union and began playing in nightclubs in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from Sunset High School in 1972, he moved to Seattle. There he briefly attended the Cornish College of the Arts and studied privately with bassist Gary Peacock .

In 1973 O'Hearn moved to San Francisco and played bass in the Bay Area for established artists such as Charles Lloyd , Joe Henderson , Dexter Gordon , Joe Pass , Woody Shaw and Eddie Henderson . He also worked with young musicians of the same age, including Terry Bozzio , Mark Isham and Peter Maunu .

In 1976 O'Hearn met the musician Frank Zappa, who offered him a job as a bassist in his band. He played in this position for over two years. O'Hearn switched from acoustic bass to electric bass guitar at Zappa. Zappa introduced him to the technical aspects of tape editing to produce compositions, audio engineering and audio recordings in the home studio.

In 1979, O'Hearn formed Group 87 with trumpeter Mark Isham and guitarist Peter Maunu . Both Isham and Maunu later worked on several solo O'Hearn releases.

In 1981 O'Hearn joined the American new wave band Missing Persons , which was founded by former Frank Zappa musicians Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo. Missing Persons produced three albums and broke up in early 1986. Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo later appeared on several O'Hearn solo albums.

O'Hearn's solo career was largely driven by former Tangerine Dream member Peter Baumann , who had conceived a new music label to present progressive instrumental music. Baumann founded the private music label in 1984 and produced O'Hearn's debut solo album Ancient Dreams (1985). In Ancient Dreams the elements characteristic of O'Hearns music manifest themselves: percussion instruments, hypnotic bass guitar patterns, synthesized pads and minimalist harmonies. O'Hearn often adds jazz elements, especially when using the bass guitar (often a fretless bass) as the lead vocals.

The album Between Two Worlds (1987) earned the artist his first Grammy nomination. His fourth album Eldorado (1989) can be assigned to the world music genre. O'Hearn combines his unmistakable sound with rhythms and timbres from different sources such as South America and the Middle East.

In 1995 O'Hearn released the album Trust . Contributing musicians on the album were David Torn , Peter Maunu and former bandmates Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo. Trust received a Grammy nomination for Best New Age Album in 1995.

His solo project So Flows the Current (2001) was recorded over a period of three years from 1997 to 2000. With this album, O'Hearn broke away from the MIDI-centric style of the previous albums. The result is an album with earthy and atmospheric music, from which the follow-up album The So Flows Sessions emerged in 2006 .

O'Hearn gained further notoriety through the DVD Timeless - A National Parks Odyssey (2003). The cameraman David Fortney underlined his spectacular landscapes with the music of Patrick O'Hearn.

The album Beautiful World (2003) was voted number 1 on the national radio station Echoes.

O'Hearns 13th album Transitions was released in 2011 and voted No.1 album 2011 in the Echoes Listener's Poll.

As part of the 29th Zappanale Festival in Bad Doberan, there was a musical reunion of the former members of Missing Persons , Warren Cuccurullo (guitar), Patrick O'Hearn (bass) and Terry Bozzio (drums) on July 21, 2018 .

Discography

With Zappa

Solo albums

  • 1985: Ancient Dreams
  • 1987: Between Two Worlds
  • 1988: Rivers Gonna Rise
  • 1989: Eldorado
  • 1991: indigo
  • 1995: Trust
  • 1996: Metaphor
  • 2001: So Flows the Current
  • 2003: Beautiful World
  • 2005: Slow Time
  • 2006: The So Flows Sessions
  • 2007: Glaciation
  • 2011: Transitions

Compilations

  • 1997: A Windham Hill Retrospective

Soundtracks

  • 1992: White Sands (with Little Feat )
  • 1995: Crying Freeman
  • 2006: Simpatico

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick O'Hearn Homepage , accessed November 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ Patrick O'Hearn Homepage , accessed November 12, 2018.
  3. ↑ So Flows the Current - AV talks to Patrick O'Hearn © 2000-2001 Ambient Visions , accessed November 12, 2018.
  4. ^ Recording Academy Grammy Awards , accessed November 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ David Fortney Cinematography , accessed November 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ Best Echoes 2011 , accessed November 12, 2018.
  7. ↑ Musical diversity in the Zappa universe , accessed on November 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME O'Hearn, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American multi-instrumentalist, composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California