Patrick Graham’s life-long enchantment with rhythm and sound has led him on a globe-traversing journey. His training encompasses contemporary and classical Western percussion, a multitude of frame drum traditions from Europe and the Middle East, South Indian rhythm and Japanese taiko. He re-imagines these far-flung influences on an array of instruments, coaxing a vast palette of colours in the service of deft, atmospheric world-building. As an in-demand collaborator, Patrick is recognized for his wide-ranging work with ensemble Constantinople, kora player Ablaye Cissoko, hardanger fiddler Benedicte Maurseth and the vocal ensemble A Filetta, well as musicians such as harpist and koto player Sarah Pagé, kanun player Didem Başar, guitarist Thomas Carbou and pianist Marianne Trudel. Patrick’s playing has been a feature of dozens of albums and soundtracks, including major releases by Cirque du Soleil and Ubisoft Games, working closely with composers such as Ramachandra Borcar, Andrew Lockington and Robert M. Lepage. As a creator, Patrick co-founded Small World Project, worked extensively with dancer/ choreographer Hideo Arai, and led his own ensemble, performing alongside flutist Kaoru Watanabe and vielle à roue player Ben Grossman. His first solo album, Rheō, was hailed in 2009 as one of the top albums of the year by the CBC Radio’s 'The Signal'. In 2020, he released Lumina, an album of solo improvisations, and Refractions, an EP of electro-acoustic music. His 2025 album with Sarah Pagé, entitled Littoral States, is a correspondence project with Brussels-based visual artist Tamar Kasparian.
‘Littoral States’ is a shifting, reciprocal project that explores affinities beyond time, place, tradition and medium. Working in collaboration between Montréal, Morin-Heights and Brussels, musicians Sarah Pagé and Patrick Graham, along with visual artist Tamar Kasparian, chart pathways at once elusive and overlapping.
Littoralstates.com
‘Moonscape: Light’ is the 7th and final track from my album, 'Celeste', available exclusively on Bandcamp.
https://patrickgraham.bandcamp.com/album/celeste
Like its sister piece, ‘Moonscape: Darkness’, the track’s origin dates back to my initial explorations connecting a Folktek Nano Garden to the metal…
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Since December of last year, I've been releasing a track every month, a part of an ongoing album release entitled ‘Celeste’. It's been a great challenge to keep up with the schedule of completing the tracks, some of which were…
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Today, December 5th, is Bandcamp Friday, and I'm excited to finally be releasing Event Horizon, the first track from my upcoming solo album, Celeste.
Over the course of the next several months, I’ll be releasing one…
November 2011
‘Playing Moon, Dancing Flower’ is the title of a very special performance project I am preparing in Wakayama, Japan, alongside my friend, the dance-artist Hideo Arai. It is being held at the Waka-no-Ura Art Cube, one…
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve started the process of removing my music from Spotify.
It was not a difficult decision, the evidence continues to mount that it’s a company that doesn’t care much about music, musicians or the fragile…
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Very excited to share the news that my album with Sarah Pagé, ‘Littoral States’, is now available for streaming in a new Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio mix on Apple Music.
It was a challenge but an immense pleasure to…
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I've had the great pleasure of collaborating on soundtrack recordings with a number of great composers and sound designers over the years.
Here is a sampling of some trailers and music.
More info on my Music page here.
April 2025
Very happy to share a new visualizer for the track ‘Pushing Upwards’, from my album with Sarah Pagé, ‘Littoral States’. The mesmerizing visuals were created by Thomas Boucher.
Listen/ buy the album here.
April 2025
Happy to report that ensemble Constantinople's album collaboration with the outstanding Czech vocal group Cappella Mariana, entitled 'Pilgramage', has won the prestigious Andĕl Award in the Classics category.
More details about the album and the award…
October 9, 2024
I'm excited, it's been three years in preparation, but new music is out today!
‘Tempest’ is the lead single from Littoral States, a new collaborative album between exploratory harpist Sarah Pagé and outernational…
