Dylan Ryan

Now surviving in LA, drummer, composer, and bandleader Dylan Ryan was created in Chicago, and began using drums whilst in junior high. He examined with a number of the city’s most prominent jazz statistics and, while participating in DePaul University, started playing within a jazz group that eventually became Herculaneum, a significant contributor to Chicago’s innovative music picture. Ryan also connected up with many of the city’s indie and experimental rock and roll clothes, including Orso and Icy Demons, in addition to Bablicon, a trio whose associates included David McDonnell (aka the Diminisher), a musician who become among Ryan’s essential Chicago collaborators. With multi-instrumentalist McDonnell, Ryan produced Michael Columbia, an experimental duo that released an eponymous debut in 2002, THEY ARE Colored Pubs in 2004, as well as the Stay Hard EP in 2006. On the other hand, both Ryan and McDonnell had been also devoting their energies to Herculaneum, whose initial (also eponymously entitled) record found its way to 2003 and highlighted a quintet lineup with trombonist Nick Broste, trumpeter Patrick Newberry, bassist Greg Danek, McDonnell on alto saxophone (afterwards adding clarinet), and Ryan on both drums and xylophone. Released in 2006, sophomore Herculaneum record Orange Blossom highlighted exactly the same lineup, while 2008’s Herculaneum III extended the lineup to some septet with the help of guitarist John Beard and flutist Nate Lepine. Olives & Orchids premiered this year 2010 and UCHU in 2012; Ryan have been Herculaneum’s primary composer on earlier albums but on these second option two releases distributed composing credits with McDonnell, Lepine, and Newberry. After shifting to LA, Ryan continued carrying out with Herculaneum and Icy Demons and a variety of additional organizations, and toured with indie rockers Cursive. He also started leading the L.A.-centered guitar-bass-drums trio Sand with guitarist Timothy Youthful (Wayne Horvitz’s Zony Mash) and bassist Devin Hoff (Nels Cline Singers). Sky Bleached, the debut recording by Dylan Ryan’s Fine sand, premiered in January 2013 from the Cuneiform label. Circa, the trio’s sophomore Cuneiform recording, arrived in Sept 2014.