Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf (born as Patrick Apps) is a 24-year old singer-songwriter. His music is usually labelled as folktronica (or indietronica) since he mixes traditional folk music with electronica using real instruments and a laptop. He plays several instruments including harp, clavinet, harpsichord, guitar, piano, autoharp, kantele, organ, clavichord, harmonium, accordion, theremin, ukulele, viola and violin.
As a child he attended violin lessons and church choirs. He wrote and recorded with a 4-tape-recorder his first songs at the age of 11. Not much later he joined a pop-art collective named Minty. When he was 16 he left his home and founded another group, Maison Crimineaux which mixed white noise and pop music. Meanwhile he continued composing and recording his own music. When he was playing with his band in Paris Patrick caught the attention of a producer who went on to release Patrick’s first album, Lycanthropy in 2003. While making the records he studied at Trinity College music conservatoire for a year but the effect of this can be heard on his moody second album, Wind in the wires (2005). This new recording was more appreciated among critics and among the music-lovers too so he toured through the UK and Europe (he supported Bloc Party). Soon he started working on his third album, The Magic Position which was released this January under a major record label. The new material was more poppy and “happy” than the previous two and with this work he entered the mainstream (at least in the West…). He was (is) touring the whole year in Europe and America (I had the pleasure to see him in Austria in April). At the end of 2007 he will disappear for a while when he starts writing the fourth album.

this video is Tristan with a short intro, from Wind In The Wires