Patrick Wolf

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Patrick Wolf
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Magic Position
  UK 46 03/10/2007 (1 week)
The Bachelor
  UK 49 06/13/2009 (1 week)
Lupercalia
  AT 47 07/01/2011 (1 week)
  UK 37 07/02/2011 (1 week)
Singles
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The Libertine
  UK 67 02/12/2005 (1 week)
The Magic Position
  UK 69 04/21/2007 (1 week)

Patrick Wolf (* thirtieth June 1983 as Patrick Denis Apps in London ) is an English singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. His music is a mixture of folk and electronics .

biography

As a child, Patrick Wolf learned to play the piano , violin , viola and flute , and in later years to play other instruments, including the Celtic harp , ukulele , accordion and theremin . At the age of eleven he began writing his own songs. At the age of 15 he left his school in London, where he had been a victim of bullying , to attend the private boarding school Bedales School . He left the boarding school a year later and moved to an empty house in the London suburb of Richmond , where he continued to compose and play in various bands.

Artistic work

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Patrick Wolf released his first album Lycanthropy on the British label FatCat Records in 2003 , which was released a year later on the Tomlab label in Europe and America and received positive reviews. In the rather dark album, which describes a transformation from boy to wolf, Patrick Wolf plays various instruments in addition to singing.

Patrick Wolf at the Dockville Festival 2009

While working on Lycanthropy , he studied composition for a year at the renowned Trinity College of Music in London . As a guest violinist, he worked with bands such as Chicks on Speed and The Hidden Cameras .

In 2005 his second album, Wind in the Wires , was released, which is darker and less electronic than its predecessor and also received very good reviews. In mid-2006, after a label change to the Polydor subsidiary Loog Records , Patrick Wolf completed the recordings for his third album The Magic Position , which was released on February 27, 2007. For a short time, Wolf was under contract with Universal Records . He split from this label because he refused to have his next album produced by Mark Ronson . He then founded his own record label "Bloody Chamber Music" , which he successfully financed by calling on his fans to support him by buying shares. In June 2009, Patrick Wolf's fourth album, The Bachelor, was released . Wolf worked with the German electronic musician Alec Empire and the actress Tilda Swinton , among others .

Wolf originally planned to release a double album called Battle . However, he decided to publish The Bachelor and The Conqueror separately , which should appear one year apart (2009 and 2010, respectively). After the release of The Bachelor , Wolf made another decision, changed the concept of the second album and renamed it Lupercalia . It was published under this name in 2011.

Conceptual classification

Patrick Wolf can definitely be seen as the epigone of the singer Björk , who also stages herself beyond her music as a total work of art in pop music ; both are known for their elaborate and provocative stage costumes. At the same time he mentions them as a source of inspiration.

Just as Björk often flirts with her Icelandic origins, Patrick Wolf, the semi-Irishman, likes to stylize himself as the heir to the island's Celtic art of song, as can be seen on his second album Wind in the Wires . The pop-cultural “heraldic animals” Björk, the bear and the swan , are countered by Patrick Wolf as totems with the wolf and various birds of prey ; both also play with their own transformation into similar animals (for example Björk in her music video for Hunter , or Patrick on his debut album Lycanthropy ).

There are other similarities with the synthpop band Hurts . Both often use electronic tones, even if Patrick Wolf's music is more tender. Hurts has also remixed several of Wolf's works.

Discography

Artistic contributions

  • On the compilation The Enlightened Family: A Collection of Lost Songs (2005) Patrick Wolf can be heard with the instrumental piece Night Train .
  • Also in 2005 Patrick Wolf recorded a remix of Björk's song Army of me under the title Army of Klaus Remix .
  • At the end of 2006, Do It Again: A Tribute To Pet Sounds was released, on which indie artists reinterpreted the classic Beach Boys album. A post on it, I Just Wasn't Made for These Times , is by Patrick Wolf.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Patrick Wolf in the Official UK Charts (English)
  2. ↑ Patrick Wolf in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at.
  3. ^ A b Miranda Sawyer: The interview: Patrick Wolf. In: The Guardian . April 19, 2009, accessed January 30, 2012 .
  4. ↑ biography at laut.de
  5. ↑ a b Elizabeth Day: Patrick Wolf: 'It was time to grow up'. In: The Guardian . March 13, 2011, accessed January 30, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Daniel Koch: Patrick Wolf explains "Lupercalia" to us. In: Rolling Stone . June 14, 2011, accessed January 30, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Kin Woo: Patrick Wolf by Jeanette. In: Dezed. Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Paola Bassanese, Charlotte Howell: 9 Artists like Hurts: Atmospheric and Introspective Sounds. In: itcher magazine. Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  9. ^ The love of the century in: FAZ from August 6, 2011, page 37.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apps, Patrick Denis (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England