Releases
The Oldest House in the World
Daniel Wyche & Patrick Shiroishi, Longform Editions 034
Patrick Shiroishi - Horns / Daniel Wyche - Guitars & Objects
Recorded and Mixed by Brian J. Sulpizio / Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering.
“This music is the second set of recordings Patrick and I have ever done, and it is not a coincidence that this is also the second time we've ever hung out in person. I encountered Patrick’s music through the web of mutual friends and connections, but I think it was primarily through Gabriel Vanlandingham-Dunn that I was inspired to really take a deep and focused listen around 2018. In 2019, I was taking a trip to LA to visit my sister and Patrick and I got in touch and made plans to do some recording as a trio with the percussionist Ted Byrnes. That session had a kind of energy of the time: it was loud, hard, intense, noisey, and chaotic. It was how we were feeling then, that day at least, and with the first note everything was just pure communication. In the time since then, we've collaborated remotely, mostly through the Quarantine Concerts, a series I helped found in March 2020. But with a few years between us, everything is a bit different, everyone in a new headspace and both of us were thinking to try something different. This time, it felt intuitively right to approach this next session with gentleness, patience, care, and maybe even a sort of kindness. So in October 2022, we did what we did the last time we met: made music. And as I said, the intuitions were, for me anyway, just the same, even as the content was different. There was a quiet care right there from the first sounds, and it all just waded into this wash, and here we are.”
Earthwork
American Dreams Records 2021
1. This Was Home 17:15
2. Earthwork 13:23
3. The Elephant-Whale II 05:24
4. This Was Home (Single Edit) 06:45
The last Flight of the Voidship remainder
[Limited Edition 2020 Re-release]
1. The Fire in the Lacquer House 09:59 video
2. The Fate of the Voidship River Tiber view
3. The Mutiny on the Voidship Pearl of Lisbon view
4. The Sacrifice of the Voidship Heart of Hearts 08:26
5. The Last Flight of the Voidship Remainder view
6. The Maiden Voyage of the Voidship Cormorant III view video
[All proceeds from physical sales will go to the Chicago Community Bond Fund]
A Commission of the Grand Council of Arts and Memory of the Third Human Sodality, in memory of those lifeforms of the First Void Fleet, lost forever in the space between space.
“These compositions collectively narrate and memorialize the attempt by an advanced, galaxy-spanning human civilization to cross the final barrier, the “void:” the space between universes. A fleet of vessels was commissioned in an attempt to reach technological and spiritual capacities beyond the limits of current human recognition. Many ships, the first prototypes of the “Cormorant”-class vessels, were destroyed, then salvaged, studied, and rebuilt. Finally, a design was achieved that could open and cross the space between space, and the five vessels of First Void Fleet of the Third Human Sodality were christened: The River Tiber, The Pearl of Lisbon, The Heart of Hearts, The Remainder (flagship of the fleet), and the Cormorant III (crafted of the salvaged remains of its predecessors). Though some were destroyed in the attempt, certain vessels did in fact pierce the breach, even if that is the only fact we can be sure of, as all communication was immediately lost. Perhaps some arrived, safely and intact... more
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releases March 1, 2020
Daniel Wyche - Guitars
All pieces recorded by Daniel Wyche, Drew M. Gibson, and Brian J. Sulpizio in Chicago between 2012-2015. 2019 remaster by Brian J. Sulpizio.“The Fire in the Lacquer House” written and arranged by Jonathan Lang and Daniel Wyche.
Artwork by Eric Hanss
First released over three separate cassettes between 2011 and 2015, these six pieces are gathered together here for the first time in the way they were intended to be heard. Tracks 1&6 were originally released as “The Fire in the Lacquer House” on Pretty All Right (2013) and Lillerne Tapes (2015); Tracks 2, 4, and 5 were originally released as “The Last Flight of the Voidship Remainder” on Solid Melts (2013); Track 3 first appeared on “A Judicious Observation of That Dreadful Portent” on Field Studies (2011).
Original Artwork from 2013 release:
Billington/Shippy/Wyche - The Eventual Warpcat, No Index 2019
1. That Lazy, Hazy Mobius Bridge 20:55
2. Strange Spinning Tubes 10:11
3. Freaky Dot Patterns 07:03
4. Unexpected Shapes 03:40
Ben Billington (Quicksails, Tiger Hatchery), Mark Shippy (Invisible Things, US Maple) & Daniel Wyche are back! After their maniacal self-titled slaughter of a debut on Astral Spirits, the BSW 3 return but this time it’s dark and stormy. “The Eventual Warp Cat” is a cosmic eulogy, like a captain’s log on a drifting spacecraft. If Part 1 serves as side-long voyage into a blackhole, then Side 2 is from inside the blackhole- a ghost ship ride starting with a buzz, eventually building into a massive supernova filling every millimeter of the stereo field. It’s Billington, Shippy, and Wyche… in Outer Space.
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Released February 15, 2019
Recorded by Dave Zuchowski Dec. 2016 at Elastic Arts
Mixed by BBB
Mark Shippy : Guitars
Daniel Wyche : Guitars
Ben Billington : Percussion
Billington/Shippy/Wyche - S/T, Astral Spirits 2017
Our Severed Sleep (CDR/DL) Eh?/Public Eyesore #86 (5.15.16)
The Beauty of the Land and the Well-being of its People
Lagamosino/Nicosia/Wyche (CS40) - Ya Reach 10.1.16
Ricardo Lagamosino - Drums
Daniel Wyche - Guitars
Michael Nicosia - Guitars & Synths
Mixed and Mastered by Ricardo Lagamosino
Physical copies available at www.moonhillmedia.net