Ten Jinn

10 Jinn, named following a 2nd hundred years Chinese language philosopher, was shaped in LA in 1991 by keyboardist/vocalist/composer John Paul Strauss. The music group was comprised of five additional users: drummer/multi-instrumentalist Tag Wickliffe, keyboardist Robert Niemeyer, bassist/keyboardist Matt Overholser, guitarist Mike Matier and Stan Whitaker of Content the Man, that has produced many guest looks with the music group over time. Lots of the users from the music group had been multi-instrumentalists, playing a number of musical tasks beyond their main put in place the music group. Musicianship, actually, was a main force within the music group, whose solid musical skills permitted all of the components that Strauss threw in, from traditional to jazz to rock and roll. Their debut recording, Wildman, released in 1997, demonstrated the impact of rings like Marillion and Mild Giant, while sticking with several pop requirements — the tunes were mostly created in 4/4 period and hovered round the four minute tag, eschewing the prog inclination towards the prolonged jam. Their second recording, As On the Darkling Plain, released by Century Press in 1999, held the solid musicianship as well as the pop esthetic and encased it inside a deeper intellectual platform. The album is really a music cycle created around two of Anne Rice’s books, The Vampire Lestat and Queen from the Damned and comes after Lestat with the tale arc of both books. While mental inquiry and literary referrals were not brand-new for Strauss (he was a psych grad from Villanova using a area of expertise in antisocial character disorder), As On the Darkling Plain symbolized his most created musical concept however.