Join us as we celebrate Daniel Wyche’s new album ‘Earthwork’ via American Dreams Records!
Daniel Wyche
Daniel Wyche is a Chicago and Michigan based guitarist, curator with Elastic Arts, and a co-founder of the Quarantine Concerts at the Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago. Earthwork, on Jordan Reyes’ mighty American Dreams Records, is his first solo release since 2016’s Our Severed Sleep. This record is the result of almost six years of writing, erasing, tinkering, futzing, visiting and re-visiting. For this event, Daniel will perform the title piece, Earthwork, originally recorded over many summers in the silo at the ACRE residency, using the CLEAT 16-channel system at Elastic.
https://danielwyche.bandcamp.com/
https://american-dreams.zone/
https://americandreamsrecords.bandcamp.com/artists
http://www.wyche.org/
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Norman W. Long
Norman W. Long is a Chicago-based sound artist. His practice involves walking, listening, improvising, performing, recording and composing to create environments and situations in which he and the audience are engaged in dialogues about memory space, value, silence and the invisible. Long has performed and toured as a member of Angel Bat Dawid and Tha Brothahood, and has collaborated with Dan Bitney and John Herndon (Tortoise), Standing On the Corner, Damon Locks (Black Monument Ensemble, The Eternals), Lia Kohl, and Sara Zalek, among many other artists. BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN, Long’s first album released on Hausu Mountain, follows releases on Reserve Matinee. The album compiles two years of recording soundscapes from the post-industrial sites and urban areas of Chicago’s southeast side, presented along with a live pre-pandemic performance recorded at Experimental Sound Studio in 2019.
On BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN, Norman W. Long presents dense collages that highlight the pure textural qualities of the environmental sound he captures: insects and birds chirping, the distant hum of machinery, the resonance of the open space around him, the muted burble of a hydrophone submerged in water. Long manipulates and processes his field recordings with a semi-modular analog synth and effects units, transforming familiar sounds into abstracted dollops of pointillist synthesis, abrasive volleys of noise, and stochastic grooves made up of elliptical percussive bursts. While some of his sessions flow through diverse narratives marked by regular introductions of contrasting tones, rhythmic figures, and mix-consuming washes of texture, other pieces draw their power from presenting the natural environment without any obvious human manipulation, beyond the subtle murmur of his electronic processing somewhere in the background. The balance between Long’s active recontextualization of his field recordings and his decisions to let them breathe in their unmodulated forms casts BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN as a meditation on the relationship between humanity and the forces of nature present in post-industrial urban environments within Chicago’s Black and Brown communities.
For tonight’s event, Norman will be performing on the CLEAT 16-channel system.
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/.../black-brown-gray...
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Lake Mary
Lake Mary is the lifework of musician Chaz Prymek. Through him flows boundless meditations on the landscapes, riverways and wildlife of the American West in kinetic bursts of adventurous guitar music and subtle pensive drones. Humbled and enchanted by the wonders of the natural world, the music of Lake Mary is emphatically expressed in compositions largely evading traditional song structures in favor of spacious personal hymns following through the wilderness of deep emotional narrative.
Lake Mary transcended the boundaries of a mere solo project long ago, having evolved into an ever-shifting collective of like-minded artists, performers and spiritual seekers with deep ties to Colorado's Front Range and the sprawling Missouri plains. Lake Mary resides in a stunningly executed catalog of releases for labels like Keeled Scales, Eilean Records, Scissor Tail Records, Whited Sepulchre, Full Spectrum, Wounded Knife, Cabin Floor Esoterica and more. Most recently, in August of 2021, Fuubutsushi, the quartet of Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, Matthew Sage, and Patrick Shiroishi, completed the seasonal series on Cached Media with the release of Natsukashii.