Biography
CLANN is the music alias of artist, filmmaker and self-taught composer Sebastian McKinnon.
In 2013, McKinnon and his brother/business partner Benjamin, created KIN Fables, a grand-scale multimedia project, with a special focus on music and film. McKinnon directed, produced and composed the music for the trilogy of short films: KIN (2013), Salvage (2015) and Requiem (2015). The trilogy won several awards worldwide, most notably 2 Vimeo Staff Pick awards and a Best Cinematography award at the 2013 Fantasia International Film Festival.
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The soundtracks for the films were compiled on the KIN Fables Album, packaged with several other tracks by McKinnon, and released independently on Bandcamp, under the name CLANN, a moniker inspired by the relationships between the musicians and collaborators of the KIN Fables project.
McKinnon frequently works with Canadian singer/songwriter Charlotte Loseth, aka Sea Oleena. For McKinnon, her voice is very much the soul of the project. Another frequent collaborator is French violinist Chloe Picard, providing heart-wringing string performances to McKinnon's blend of trip-hop beats and orchestral arrangements.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.