SAND SNOWMAN

Sand Snowman biography
Musician, artist and writer Gavan KEARNEY has been recording and releasing music as SAND SNOWMAN since 2005 and has, to date, issued 10 albums (which have variously appeared on the American Time Lag and Beta Lactam Ring labels, the Dutch label Tonefloat and Reverb Worship in the UK). He has also collaborated with artists such as Steven WILSON (contributing instrumental parts for Steven's acclaimed debut 'INSURGENTES' and it's follow up 'GRACE FOR DROWNING', as well as featuring Steven's vocals on several Sand songs), Judy DYBLE (FAIRPORT CONVENTION, TRADER HORN), Bobbie WATSON (COMUS), Amandine FERRARI (THE EDEN HOUSE), Demian CASTELLANOS (THE OSCILLATION) as well as his musical/life partner MOONSWIFT (with whom he is currently playing and issued an album 'AUTONAL' on Reverb Worship).

Sand's influences are varied and nebulous; a love of the indefinite, the suggestive, the haunting, lead Sand to immerse himself in some of the more experimental and peripheral folk of the psychedelic era, where the ancient, unknown and uncanny are often captured in spiraling guitar patterns, almost ceremonial percussion and elemental fey vocals. This affinity with the indistinct translates into Sand's other areas of interest such as the music and Art of the symbolist movement (an emphasis on nuance and, musically, the shift towards strange harmony and atonality), the psychedelically infused models of Krautrock, Prog and Jazz, and the experimental flux of the Post Punk era. Gavan also paints (many SAND SNOWMAN albums are adorned with his artwork), has exhibited throughout Europe, the UK and Ireland, and has just finished the cover art for a book on Cochranian Wicca

Biography provided by the artist and used with permission