Patrick O'Hearn
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Patrick O'Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and recording artist. While his musical repertoire spans a diverse range of music, he is an acclaimed New Age
artist in his solo career. To date in his career, he has released 12 solo albums.
and raised in the Pacific Northwest
, Patrick O'Hearn began his professional music career at age 15 when he joined the Musicians Union and began playing night clubs in Portland, Oregon
. Upon graduating from Sunset High School in 1972, he moved to Seattle. There, he briefly attended Cornish College of the Arts
and, as well, studied privately with bassist Gary Peacock
.
In 1973 he moved to San Francisco and soon became involved in the vibrant Bay Area jazz scene of that time, playing bass for well-established artists Charles Lloyd, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon
, Joe Pass, Woody Shaw, Eddie Henderson, and Bobby Hutcherson, as well as with other like-aged young musicians, including Terry Bozzio
, Mark Isham
and Peter Maunu.
While on tour in Los Angeles in 1976, O'Hearn met musician Frank Zappa
, who offered him a job as bass player in his band - a position he held for over two years. During this period, O’Hearn shifted from the acoustic bass to the electric bass guitar (given the requirements of Zappa's arrangements), and also became increasingly interested in electronic music. Zappa encouraged O’Hearn to explore his premium collection of synthesizers, and also introduced him to the technical aspects of intricate physical tape editing as a way of producing compositions (in an era prior to home computers), audio engineering, and home studio audio recording equipment.
In 1979, O'Hearn teamed with trumpet player Mark Isham and guitarist Peter Maunu to form Group 87, an ensemble heavily influenced by the instrumental jazz fusion of Weather Report
, as well as the electronic stylings of Kraftwerk
and the ambient minimalism of Brian Eno
. Although they only produced two LPs — Group 87 in 1980, and A Career in Dada Processing in 1984 — Group 87 would help establish the musical direction of O'Hearn's solo career. Both Isham and Maunu would continue as important collaborators on several of O'Hearn's subsequent solo releases.
In 1981, drummer and former Zappa bandmate Terry Bozzio
invited O’Hearn to join his emerging rock/new wave band, Missing Persons. The nature of the music called for O'Hearn to make a further shift — this time, from electric bass to synthesizers. Missing Persons recorded three albums for Capitol Records: Spring Session M
(1982), Rhyme & Reason
(1984), and Color In Your Life
(1985). The band dissolved in early 1986; subsequently, O'Hearn and Terry Bozzio joined with former Duran Duran
guitarist Andy Taylor
and former Sex Pistols
guitarist Steve Jones
for one album, Thunder (1986), and a brief tour. Although both Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo
later contributed to several of O'Hearn's solo albums, O'Hearn declined to take part in the 2001 Missing Persons reunion.
member Peter Baumann
, who had been conceiving of a new music label that would showcase progressive instrumental music - a niche earlier explored by Group 87. Baumann formed the Private Music
label in late 1984, and signed O'Hearn as a charter artist (along with Mahavishnu Orchestra violinist Jerry Goodman, Roxy Music keyboardist Eddie Jobson, and later, New Age notables Yanni
and Suzanne Ciani
), and produced O'Hearn's debut solo album, Ancient Dreams (1985).
Signature elements readily manifest in Ancient Dreams: found percussion instruments, hypnotic bass guitar patterns, synthesized pads, and minimalist harmonies. Perhaps biased by his preferred instrument, O'Hearn often adds jazz elements, particularly in his frequent use of the bass guitar (often a fretless bass) as the lead voice.
O'Hearn followed Ancient Dreams with two more albums - Between Two Worlds (1987), which earned the artist his first Grammy
nomination, and Rivers Gonna Rise (1988). Notably, the albums gradually became brighter in tone as O'Hearn began to receive greater airplay on jazz and new age radio stations. O'Hearn also co-produced several tracks for guitarist Colin Chin's Intruding on a Silence, featuring Mark Isham on trumpet - as such, the output strongly echoes Group 87's earlier work.
The fourth album, Eldorado (1989), ventured decidedly into the World Music genre - infusing O'Hearn's signature sound with rhythms and timbres drawn from disparate sources such as South America and the Middle East. As such, O'Hearn's arrangements accommodated a wider array of instrumentation - such as human singing and the solo violin (most notably on "Black Delilah".) Commercially, Eldorado performed well among New Age audiences - some tracks remain popular on jazz stations today.
He was also composer of the ninth and last season of Falcon Crest
television show on CBS from 1989-90.
An album of techno remixes called Mix Up was released by Private Music in 1990, featuring contributions from popular music producers, including David Frank, Joe "The Butcher" Nicolo
, and Carmen Rizzo Jr.
However, Mix Up was panned by critics and fans, and remains long out of print. In a 2001 interview, O'Hearn said that the album was "the brain child of the A&R dept. of Private Music.... Overall, I enjoyed the outcome, but some of the stuff makes me cringe to this day."
Yet another major turning point in O'Hearn's music career was marked with the release of Indigo (1991). Ostensibly billed by the label as being "In the tradition of Ancient Dreams", O'Hearn downplayed the use of synthesizers and instead focused on manipulating space, acoustics, and textures to create an album with a cohesive consistency of tone.
Following the commercial success of Yanni's compilation albums, Private Music issued a retrospective - The Private Music of Patrick O'Hearn - in 1992. This contained three previously unreleased tracks that have a similar feel and ambience to Rivers Gonna Rise. Also in 1992 O'Hearn composed and performed the music score for White Sands
, a police thriller starring Willem Dafoe
and Samuel L. Jackson
. (The movie was directed by Roger Donaldson
, of Cocktail fame.)
and former bandmates Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo
, Trust earned O'Hearn his second Grammy nomination. Shortly after the release of his next album, Metaphor (1996), the Deep Cave record label folded.
O'Hearn's next project, So Flows the Current (2001), was recorded over a three year period from 1997 to 2000. The album saw O'Hearn move away from the MIDI-centric style of music production and performance, relying more on musicians playing live together in the studio. The result is a rich tapestry of earthy and yet atmospheric music, which actually yielded a subsequent album in 2006 (see below). So Flows the Current is O'Hearn's only album released on the Paras Recordings label.
- including references to Steve Roach and Pierre Boulez
.
In 2006, O'Hearn released three recordings via online delivery only. These are The So Flows Sessions (previously unreleased material from the same recording sessions in 1997-2000 that produced So Flows The Current). Very often, tracks recorded but excluded from an album's release are somewhat inferior in quality to the songs that made the album, but the material on The So Flows Sessions is very strong indeed and it stands up as an album on its own. Also released in 2006 was the soundtrack to the stage play Simpatico (originally recorded in 1994), as well as the soundtrack EP to the short film The Wheelhouse. The next year in 2007 O'Hearn released the CD Glaciation, which pays homage to the Earth's Arctic regions.
In 2008, he played bass on John Hiatt's "Same Old Man" studio release, and toured with Hiatt as a member of the "Ageless Beauties". 2009 saw O'Hearn recording again with John Hiatt and the Ageless Beauties. "Open Road" is due for release in March 2010 with touring to follow.
O'Hearn's 13th album Transitions was released digitally on August 23, 2011. The CD will be sold at record stores and online on October 4.
New Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
artist in his solo career. To date in his career, he has released 12 solo albums.
Formative years
Born in Los AngelesLos Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
and raised in the Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...
, Patrick O'Hearn began his professional music career at age 15 when he joined the Musicians Union and began playing night clubs in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
. Upon graduating from Sunset High School in 1972, he moved to Seattle. There, he briefly attended Cornish College of the Arts
Cornish College of the Arts
-Library:The library at Cornish College specializes in art, dance, design, music, performance production, and theatre. As of 2011 it holds 4700 CDs, 40,000 books, has 2,200 videos, and subscribes to 154 periodicals...
and, as well, studied privately with bassist Gary Peacock
Gary Peacock
Gary Peacock is an American jazz double-bassist.-Biography:After military service in Germany, in the early sixties he worked on the west coast with Barney Kessel, Bud Shank, Paul Bley and Art Pepper, then moved to New York. He worked there with Bley, the Bill Evans trio , and Albert Ayler's trio...
.
In 1973 he moved to San Francisco and soon became involved in the vibrant Bay Area jazz scene of that time, playing bass for well-established artists Charles Lloyd, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...
, Joe Pass, Woody Shaw, Eddie Henderson, and Bobby Hutcherson, as well as with other like-aged young musicians, including Terry Bozzio
Terry Bozzio
Terry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.-Biography:Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets. At the age of 13 he saw The Beatles premier performance on The Ed...
, Mark Isham
Mark Isham
Mark Isham is an American trumpeter, synthesist, and film composer. He works in a variety of genres, including jazz, electronic, and film.-Life and career:...
and Peter Maunu.
While on tour in Los Angeles in 1976, O'Hearn met musician Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
, who offered him a job as bass player in his band - a position he held for over two years. During this period, O’Hearn shifted from the acoustic bass to the electric bass guitar (given the requirements of Zappa's arrangements), and also became increasingly interested in electronic music. Zappa encouraged O’Hearn to explore his premium collection of synthesizers, and also introduced him to the technical aspects of intricate physical tape editing as a way of producing compositions (in an era prior to home computers), audio engineering, and home studio audio recording equipment.
In 1979, O'Hearn teamed with trumpet player Mark Isham and guitarist Peter Maunu to form Group 87, an ensemble heavily influenced by the instrumental jazz fusion of Weather Report
Weather Report
Weather Report was an American jazz-rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Joe Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter...
, as well as the electronic stylings of Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...
and the ambient minimalism of Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
. Although they only produced two LPs — Group 87 in 1980, and A Career in Dada Processing in 1984 — Group 87 would help establish the musical direction of O'Hearn's solo career. Both Isham and Maunu would continue as important collaborators on several of O'Hearn's subsequent solo releases.
In 1981, drummer and former Zappa bandmate Terry Bozzio
Terry Bozzio
Terry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.-Biography:Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets. At the age of 13 he saw The Beatles premier performance on The Ed...
invited O’Hearn to join his emerging rock/new wave band, Missing Persons. The nature of the music called for O'Hearn to make a further shift — this time, from electric bass to synthesizers. Missing Persons recorded three albums for Capitol Records: Spring Session M
Spring Session M
Spring Session M is the debut album by American new wave band Missing Persons, released in 1982 . The title of the album is an anagram of the band's name. Tracks from this album: "Words", "Windows", "Destination Unknown", and "Walking in LA" all had videos created and all received heavy play on...
(1982), Rhyme & Reason
Rhyme & Reason
Rhyme & Reason is the second album by American new wave band Missing Persons, released in 1984. After the successful debut album by the band, this LP fell flat in sales. The pleasant-sounding "Surrender Your Heart" was its signature single...
(1984), and Color In Your Life
Color in Your Life
Color in Your Life is the third and final album by American new wave band Missing Persons, released in 1986 .-Track listing:All songs by Missing Persons, except where noted#"Color in Your Life" – 5:00...
(1985). The band dissolved in early 1986; subsequently, O'Hearn and Terry Bozzio joined with former Duran Duran
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...
guitarist Andy Taylor
Andy Taylor (guitarist)
Andy Taylor is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a member of Duran Duran and The Power Station....
and former Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
guitarist Steve Jones
Steve Jones (musician)
Stephen Philip "Steve" Jones is an English rock guitarist, singer and actor, best known as guitarist and founding member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.-Childhood:...
for one album, Thunder (1986), and a brief tour. Although both Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
later contributed to several of O'Hearn's solo albums, O'Hearn declined to take part in the 2001 Missing Persons reunion.
Private music
O'Hearn's solo career was spurred in large part by former Tangerine DreamTangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...
member Peter Baumann
Peter Baumann
Peter Baumann formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976...
, who had been conceiving of a new music label that would showcase progressive instrumental music - a niche earlier explored by Group 87. Baumann formed the Private Music
Private Music
Private Music is a United States record company founded in 1984 by experimental musician Peter Baumann, as a home for instrumental music. Initially signing such artists as Yanni, Suzanne Ciani, Patrick O'Hearn, and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream, the record label specialized in New Age...
label in late 1984, and signed O'Hearn as a charter artist (along with Mahavishnu Orchestra violinist Jerry Goodman, Roxy Music keyboardist Eddie Jobson, and later, New Age notables Yanni
Yanni
Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...
and Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani is an Italian American pianist and music composer who found early success with innovative electronic music.-Education:...
), and produced O'Hearn's debut solo album, Ancient Dreams (1985).
Signature elements readily manifest in Ancient Dreams: found percussion instruments, hypnotic bass guitar patterns, synthesized pads, and minimalist harmonies. Perhaps biased by his preferred instrument, O'Hearn often adds jazz elements, particularly in his frequent use of the bass guitar (often a fretless bass) as the lead voice.
O'Hearn followed Ancient Dreams with two more albums - Between Two Worlds (1987), which earned the artist his first Grammy
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
nomination, and Rivers Gonna Rise (1988). Notably, the albums gradually became brighter in tone as O'Hearn began to receive greater airplay on jazz and new age radio stations. O'Hearn also co-produced several tracks for guitarist Colin Chin's Intruding on a Silence, featuring Mark Isham on trumpet - as such, the output strongly echoes Group 87's earlier work.
The fourth album, Eldorado (1989), ventured decidedly into the World Music genre - infusing O'Hearn's signature sound with rhythms and timbres drawn from disparate sources such as South America and the Middle East. As such, O'Hearn's arrangements accommodated a wider array of instrumentation - such as human singing and the solo violin (most notably on "Black Delilah".) Commercially, Eldorado performed well among New Age audiences - some tracks remain popular on jazz stations today.
He was also composer of the ninth and last season of Falcon Crest
Falcon Crest
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced....
television show on CBS from 1989-90.
An album of techno remixes called Mix Up was released by Private Music in 1990, featuring contributions from popular music producers, including David Frank, Joe "The Butcher" Nicolo
Butcher Bros.
The Butcher Bros. are an American production team made up of brothers Phil and Joe Nicolo, originally based out of Philadelphia. Together and individually, the brothers have produced albums for a wide variety of bands, including Urge Overkill, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Amy Grant, Cypress Hill, Nine...
, and Carmen Rizzo Jr.
Carmen Rizzo
Carmen Rizzo is a producer and music engineer who has worked with Alanis Morissette, Oakenfold, Kate Havnevik, Huun-Huur-Tu, Temposhark, Jem, Niyaz and Esthero. In addition, he has recorded his own albums entitled The Lost Art of the Idle Moment , Ornament of an Imposter , and Looking Through...
However, Mix Up was panned by critics and fans, and remains long out of print. In a 2001 interview, O'Hearn said that the album was "the brain child of the A&R dept. of Private Music.... Overall, I enjoyed the outcome, but some of the stuff makes me cringe to this day."
Yet another major turning point in O'Hearn's music career was marked with the release of Indigo (1991). Ostensibly billed by the label as being "In the tradition of Ancient Dreams", O'Hearn downplayed the use of synthesizers and instead focused on manipulating space, acoustics, and textures to create an album with a cohesive consistency of tone.
Following the commercial success of Yanni's compilation albums, Private Music issued a retrospective - The Private Music of Patrick O'Hearn - in 1992. This contained three previously unreleased tracks that have a similar feel and ambience to Rivers Gonna Rise. Also in 1992 O'Hearn composed and performed the music score for White Sands
White Sands (film)
White Sands is a 1992 motion picture directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros. The movie is about a U.S. southwestern small-town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation...
, a police thriller starring Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group...
and Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American film and television actor and film producer. After becoming involved with the Civil Rights Movement, he moved on to acting in theater at Morehouse College, and then films. He had several small roles such as in the film Goodfellas before meeting his mentor,...
. (The movie was directed by Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson is an Australian-born New Zealand film producer, director and writer who has made numerous successful movies. He was a co-founder of the New Zealand Film Commission.-Life and career:...
, of Cocktail fame.)
Deep Cave/Paras Recordings
After a four year absence of solo album recording, a period primarily focused on composing film scores, O'Hearn released Trust in 1995 under the newly formed Deep Cave record label. Featuring contributions from David TornDavid Torn
David Torn is an American composer and guitarist.He is known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or textural quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness...
and former bandmates Terry Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Cuccurullo
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
, Trust earned O'Hearn his second Grammy nomination. Shortly after the release of his next album, Metaphor (1996), the Deep Cave record label folded.
O'Hearn's next project, So Flows the Current (2001), was recorded over a three year period from 1997 to 2000. The album saw O'Hearn move away from the MIDI-centric style of music production and performance, relying more on musicians playing live together in the studio. The result is a rich tapestry of earthy and yet atmospheric music, which actually yielded a subsequent album in 2006 (see below). So Flows the Current is O'Hearn's only album released on the Paras Recordings label.
Patrickohearn.com
Beautiful World was O'Hearn's next release in 2003, and it was voted the #1 album on the nationally syndicated radio program Echoes. This was followed by Slow Time in 2005, which marked a departure for O'Hearn, in that he ventured into the experimental realm characterized by musical movements of the 20th centuryModernism (music)
Modernism in music is characterized by a desire for or belief in progress and science, surrealism, anti-romanticism, political advocacy, general intellectualism, and/or a breaking with the past or common practice.- Defining musical modernism :...
- including references to Steve Roach and Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
.
In 2006, O'Hearn released three recordings via online delivery only. These are The So Flows Sessions (previously unreleased material from the same recording sessions in 1997-2000 that produced So Flows The Current). Very often, tracks recorded but excluded from an album's release are somewhat inferior in quality to the songs that made the album, but the material on The So Flows Sessions is very strong indeed and it stands up as an album on its own. Also released in 2006 was the soundtrack to the stage play Simpatico (originally recorded in 1994), as well as the soundtrack EP to the short film The Wheelhouse. The next year in 2007 O'Hearn released the CD Glaciation, which pays homage to the Earth's Arctic regions.
In 2008, he played bass on John Hiatt's "Same Old Man" studio release, and toured with Hiatt as a member of the "Ageless Beauties". 2009 saw O'Hearn recording again with John Hiatt and the Ageless Beauties. "Open Road" is due for release in March 2010 with touring to follow.
O'Hearn's 13th album Transitions was released digitally on August 23, 2011. The CD will be sold at record stores and online on October 4.
Solo albums
| Release date | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Ancient Dreams | Private Music |
| 1987 | Between Two Worlds | Private Music |
| 1988 | Rivers Gonna Rise | Private Music |
| Aug 4, 1989 | Eldorado | Private Music |
| Sep 24, 1991 | Indigo | Private Music |
| July 25, 1995 | Trust | Deep Cave |
| March 7, 1996 | Metaphor | Deep Cave |
| Feb 20, 2001 | So Flows the Current | Paras Recordings |
| Nov 4, 2003 | Beautiful World | patrickohearn.com |
| June 28, 2005 | Slow Time | patrickohearn.com |
| July 7, 2006 | The So Flows Sessions | (iTunes) |
| Aug 22, 2007 | Glaciation | patrickohearn.com |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Transitions | (iTunes) |
Compilations
| Release date | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Mix-Up (Remixes by other producers) | Private Music |
| Nov 10, 1992 | The Private Music of Patrick O'Hearn | Private Music |
| July 15, 1997 | A Windham Hill Retrospective | Windham Hill |
Soundtracks
| Release date | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | White Sands White Sands (film) White Sands is a 1992 motion picture directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros. The movie is about a U.S. southwestern small-town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation... |
Morgan Creek |
| 1996 | Crying Freeman | Ariola |
| 2006 | The Wheelhouse | (iTunes) |
| 2006 | Simpatico Simpatico (play) Simpatico is a 1993 play by American playwright Sam Shepard.In 1999, it was adapted for the screen in the film Simpatico starring Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catherine Keener, and Albert Finney.-Plot:... |
(iTunes) |
Film soundtracks not released
| Film released | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | The Destroyer | Unreleased |
| 1991 | Heaven is a Playground | Unreleased |
| 1993 | Father Hood | Unreleased |
| 1994 | Silent Tongue | Unreleased |
| 1995 | As Good As Dead (TV) | Unreleased |
| 1999 | Alien Cargo (TV) | Unreleased |
| 2000 | Border Patrol (TV) | Unreleased |
See also
- Mark IshamMark IshamMark Isham is an American trumpeter, synthesist, and film composer. He works in a variety of genres, including jazz, electronic, and film.-Life and career:...
- Terry BozzioTerry BozzioTerry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.-Biography:Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets. At the age of 13 he saw The Beatles premier performance on The Ed...
- Dale BozzioDale BozzioDale Bozzio, born Dale Frances Consalvi in Medford, Massachusetts March 2, 1955, is an American progressive rock and new wave vocalist. She is best known as co-founder and lead singer of the 1980s pop/new wave band Missing Persons. She is also known for her work with Frank Zappa...
- Warren CuccurulloWarren CuccurulloWarren Bruce Cuccurullo in Brooklyn, New York is an American rock musician who worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and has been a long term member of Duran Duran. He also has some notoriety in the porn industry after making nude appearances in a magazine and...
- David TornDavid TornDavid Torn is an American composer and guitarist.He is known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or textural quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness...
- Peter BaumannPeter BaumannPeter Baumann formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976...
- Sue G. WilkinsonSue G. WilkinsonSue Wilkinson is an independent artist and has played all over the world, including England, Scotland, Denmark and Japan. She has opened up for many artists like R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Indigo Girls, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Art Garfunkel, Bob Weir, and Acoustic Alchemy.Sue has written not only pop,...
External links
- Official site
- [ Patrick O'Hearn] at Allmusic
- Patrick O'Hearn at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...