Jordan Kenny

With a beatnik’s flair, Sydney-based artist Jordan Kenny crafts a smiling and timeless energy. Featuring hints of a folky quirkiness and a kindling poetic voice, his eclectic writing style is artfully composed with forward-thinking altruism and a dreamy complexity. A student of music and nature, Jordan harnesses the harmonious power that lyrics and music can invoke together. Jordan is months away from graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, all the while preparing for an EP release mid-2021.

There’s a dreaminess found amongst the psychedelic chords in Jordan’s music, causing a connection between your ears and mind that is unbreakable until the record ends. In 2018, Jordan self-released his debut EP Rainbows in My Clothes and has since played just about every venue Sydney has to offer. Touring with his own band and dirty ska rockers Cosy Bosom, Jordan has played in front of sold out crowds at Factory Theatre, Vic on the Park, The Vanguard, Paddo RSL, The Brass Monkey and El Sol. Jordan also had the opportunity to perform two of his songs in Tasmania, accompanied by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

“(I) Blew The Sun Away” describes the ‘nomadic feeling of losing and finding yourself’, revealing the dualities in our personalities – the light of the sun versus the darkness of the shadows. Jordan explains,

“Opposites are seemingly what gives life motion and it is exactly this that I wished to express when making ‘(I) Blew The Sun Away’. In my work, I strive to encapsulate this duality of oneself using surrealist elements – concepts like the wolf and the man in Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf or in this case the clarity of the Sun versus the Breath pushing it away.”