William Ryan Fritch (also known under the moniker Vieo Abiungo) is an American musician, composer, and producer, currently residing in
Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...
. He is a member of
Sole and the Skyrider Band
Sole and the Skyrider Band is an alternative hip hop quartet based in Denver, Colorado.
The band consists of rapper Tim Holland a.k.a. Sole, producer Bud Berning a.k.a. Skyrider, multi-instrumentalist William Ryan Fritch, and drummer John Wagn ...
and has released several albums under his own name.
Fritch began his musical career in rural
Florida
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.
[Interview with William Ryan Fritch]
''Cyclic Defrost
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'', March 20, 2014. He self-released his first album, ''Plumed and Desiccated'', in 2006; this album featured vocals, which Fritch would henceforth eschew until his 2014 release ''Leave Me Like You Found Me''. After a show in
Phoenix
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* Phoenix, Arizona, a city in the United States
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* Phoenix (son of Amyntor), a ...
, Fritch was contacted by
Lost Tribe Sound, a record label which went on to release several of his albums.
[
Under the alias Vieo Abiungo, he released three albums for Lost Tribe between 2010 and 2012. Also in 2010, he released ''Music for Honey and Bile'' for ]Asthmatic Kitty
Asthmatic Kitty is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by a community of musicians from Holland, Michigan led by Sufjan Stevens and his stepfather Lowell Brams. Some were Holland natives, and others had come to attend local coll ...
's Library Catalog series. In 2014, he started a subscription series with Lost Tribe, releasing three full-length albums and several EPs. These included ''Leave Me Like You Found Me'' and the ''Empty'' EP.
Fritch also plays with composer Jon Mueller in the group Death Blues.
Discography
;Albums as William Ryan Fritch
*''Plumed and Desiccated'' (2006)
*''Library Catalog Music Series, Vol. 7: Music for Honey and Bile'' (Asthmatic Kitty
Asthmatic Kitty is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by a community of musicians from Holland, Michigan led by Sufjan Stevens and his stepfather Lowell Brams. Some were Holland natives, and others had come to attend local coll ...
, 2010)
*''Emptied Animal'' (2014)
*''Leave Me Like You Found Me'' (2014)
*''Her Warmth'' (2014)
*''Revisionist'' (2015)
*''Settled Scores: Music for Film Vol. I'' (2015)
*''New Worlds for Old Wounds'' (2016)
*''Clean War'' (2016)
*''Her Warmth'' (2016)
*''III Tides'' (2016)
*''Gopro: Eagle Hunters in a New World'' (2017)
*''The Sum of Its Parts'' (2017)
*''The Old Believers'' (2017)
*''Behind the Pale'' (2017)
*''Deceptive Cadence: Music For Film, Vol. I & II'' (2019)
References
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American male composers
21st-century American composers
Musicians from Oakland, California
American electronic musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American male musicians