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Patrick Irwin (* 17. Mai 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Komponist und Musiker. Irwin besuchte bis 1977 die Tisch School of the Arts. Als Empfänger eines Thomas-J.-Watson-Stipendiums ging er dann nach Paris, um über dorthin ausgewanderte amerikanische Jazzmusiker zu schreiben.
- Irwin, Patrick (vollständiger Name)
- US-amerikanischer Komponist und Musiker
- 17. Mai 1955
- Irwin, Pat
Pat Irwin (born May 17, 1955) is an American composer and musician who was a founding member of two bands that grew out of New York City's No Wave scene in the late 1970s, the Raybeats and 8-Eyed Spy.
Pat Irwin has been living in and making music in New York City since the late 1970’s. He writes music for film and television and recently composed the score for Dexter: New Blood which premiered on the Showtime Network on November, 2021 and became the most watched show in Showtime history.
Pat Irwin has spent over 4 decades pushing the boundaries of popular music with his soundtracks for some of the most recognized and popular shows in television including Dexter: New Blood, Nurse Jackie, Bored To Death and scores for animation including Rocko’s Modern Life, Pepper Ann, Class of 3000 and SpongeBob SquarePants.
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- Promotion and Commercial Performance
- Critical Reception
- Tour
- Track Listing
Following guitarist Ricky Wilson's death and the band's short promotional campaign for their 1986 album Bouncing Off the Satellites, the band was uncertain about their future together.The album had been the band's most expensive to produce, and their foregoing of a tour to promote it resulted in the band seeing little revenue, which led to them exp...
In the wake of Wilson's death, Strickland took over both guitar duties and the bulk of the music composition responsibilities. For the new songs, Strickland recorded instrumental demos and singers Pierson, Cindy Wilson and Fred Schneider would then improvise melodies and lyrics over the recordings, with all four band members devising the final song...
Recording of the album was focused in two locations: Skyline Studios in New York City, and Dreamland Recording Studios in West Hurley, New York. The initial sessions in New York City were produced by Nile Rodgers, while the West Hurley sessions were helmed by Don Was. The band had previously worked with Rodgers when he recorded their song "(Shake T...
"Channel Z" was selected as the album's first single and was released in March 1989. While the single was not commercially successful in the mainstream at first, it generated substantial amounts of airplay on American college radio, helping re-establish the group's youth popularity. The single eventually peaked at number one on the Billboard Modern...
Robert Christgau of The Village Voice opined that the album was "an almost touchingly brave attempt to dance away from the edge of ecocatastrophe" and found the band "trying to be seriously silly", but concluded that, "between Ricky Wilson's guitar and the permanent defeat his loss doesn't merely signify, they can't quite bring it off." Jim Farber ...
In addition to the album's successful singles, the band embarked upon the extensive "Cosmic Tour" to promote the album worldwide, their first tour since Ricky Wilson's death. Drummer Strickland switched to guitar for the tour with Zack Alford serving as the touring drummer. Sara Lee played bass guitar and Pat Irwin was keyboardist and extra guitari...
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1. With the exception of track 15, all tracks on disc 2 of the "30th Anniversary Expanded Edition" were recorded live on August 4, 1990 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in the Woodlands, Texas, near Houston. Track 15 was recorded live on August 3, 1990 at the Starplex Amphitheatre in Dallas.
Patrick Irwin (* 17. Mai 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Komponist und Musiker. Irwin besuchte bis 1977 die Tisch School of the Arts. Als Empfänger eines Thomas-J.-Watson-Stipendiums ging er dann nach Paris, um über dorthin ausgewanderte amerikanische Jazzmusiker zu schreiben.
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