Biography
Defining Jason Kenny and his music is not an easy task. Even now I can hear him in the other room listening to Billie Holiday and Patti Smith. He once described himself as a musical expeditionary, and that may just be the most accurate. Despite journeying through time and genre almost daily, there are those artists he continually returns to, and it’s obviously these artists who affect him more than the others; artists like Dylan, Björk, Ryan Adams, Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave, Mingus, Radiohead and the Velvet Underground. As well as Holiday and Smith. When performing live he arranges his songs to suit the mood at the time, meaning a song will at times be a mid-Sixties Dylan venom spit, at others a delicate croon.
The literary background Kenny surfaces from is possibly one of the reasons he’s difficult to define. A published poet and short story writer while still in high school, Kenny is now completing his first novel, Nine Thousand Days. A novella about returning to a home you couldn’t wait to leave is on the backburner.
Most of 2007 he will be found in Europe researching his second novel and recording his second EP 'Songs from the Attic', which includes the track 'Box of Letters' which was recently nominated for the Toronto Exclusive Music Prize. His debut long player 'The Fugitive' is scheduled for release in early 2008.
-JJ Slane, Little Room Records.
Instrumentation
Jason Kenny - guitar, vox, piano, misc.
occassionally accompanied by other musicians.
Discography
Scratchings of Ink EP (2006)
Songs From The Attic (2007)
Ophelia Dreams Single (2008)
The Fugitive LP (to be released March 2008)