Kinjac is the moniker of WNC-based musician and philosophy student Michael O'Shea. After a short stint in the Chapel Hill, NC music scene as a drummer, he returned to WNC to expand his musical repertoire beyond percussion to include all aspects of music, from writing to recording to producing to mastering.
Blending minimalistic melodies with a din of digitized percussion, Kinjac's music is a unique synthesis of the digital and organic that manages to fall outside the bounds of most categorizations.
Since becoming a solo-act in early 2008, Kinjac has taken two full-length solo albums from conception to completion in his small, secluded studio. His second full length attempt, "Seven Years Bad Luck," was self-released January 20, 2009 (Inauguration Day). A rough musical road-map of the past seven years, both for himself personally and for the political times, the album was written, recorded and produced at a feverish pace, going from start to finish in a single month. A new EP, "Seven Addenda" will be released on 7/7/09.
Kinjac's live show is a unique phenomenon befitting his music. The multi-instrumentalist switches between singing and playing bass (with an often radically altered sound) and playing a drum-set, all on-top of the densely layered sonic backdrop of his pre-recording productions.
Kinjac has shared the stage with notable names such as L.A. producer/musician Thavius Beck, L.A. based hip-hop artist K-the-I???, and New York Folk/Metal band O'Death, as well as having headlined venues such as The Rocket Club and The Emerald Lounge in his hometown of Asheville, NC.
