Final Conflict

Lost in Günter's Wald (feat. Marc Ribot)

No Strings Attached

Moonwalk

Courage Unleashed

Banshee Dance

Caught in the Act

Monster of Solitude

Rhythmic storyteller Sean Patrick Noonan is a modern-day sonic griot, composing and conducting with a pair of drum sticks original multi-stylistic music, fusing discoveries from harmolodic jazz-rock to avant-garde chamber music.  As a drummer, his compositions serve as an extension of his limbs, mapping out polyrhythmic language on the drum set using Sensory Percussion, tone rows, multi-temporal rhythms and aleatoric comprovisation.  

After Berklee, Noonan settled in New York forming THE HUB, a punk-jazz trio where in 2003 a near-fatal car wreck on tour in Italy became integral to his compositional style.  A commission from the American Composers Forum in 2006 led to discovering the "wandering folk" theory where he collected and adapted folklore from a modern perspective Bardic (Susan McKeown) and Malian Griot traditions (Abdoulaye Diabaté) with improvisation (Marc Ribot, Mat Maneri). "Drummer Noonan's notion of conflating 'bardic and griot traditions' has juice. The Celtic tunes and African grooves retain their singularity, even when surrounded by flashes of fusion." – The Village Voice.

A love for jazz and African rhythms fueled a 2008 trek to Mali gaining a first-hand experience of West African griot traditions which culminated in the album Boxing Dreams (Songlines Recordings). In Boxing Dreams “your brain ear bits want to attach the music to a genre … but it never happens. Awesome.” - Something Else Review. Boxing Dreams was one manifestation of Noonan’s amorphous Afro-Celtic jazz-rock project Brewed By Noon, which consisted of 5 albums between 2006 and 2011 and was the subject of filmmaker Tom Asma’s documentary Being Brewed By Noon. Other more recent work includes Pavees Dance, a 2019 release on Rarenoise Records, fuses free funk pre-rap beat poetry by Malcolm Mooney, of CAN and Jamaaladeen Tacuma (Ornette Coleman) and Zappantion a 90-minute rock opera  commissioned by The Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival and dedicated to Frank Zappa and Edgar Varese.

Sean Noonan