Solo Works

i shouldn't have to worry when my parents go outside (2021, Family Vineyard/Distant Bloom)

all instruments written, performed and recorded by patrick shiroishi. featuring the voices of asa nakagawa & crystal chou.  flower arrangement and cover photo by alice lam.  mastered by ben chisholm.

dedicated to daoyou feng, hyun jung grant, suncha kim, soon chung park, xiaojie tan, delaina ashley yaun, yong ae yue & paul andre michels. all proceeds will go towards their families via asian americans advancing justice - atlanta

Resting in the Heart of Green Shade (2021, Tripticks Tapes) 

Patrick Shiroishi: alto, soprano & tenor saxophones

Recorded at Betalevel & Michael Todd's Studio in Los Angeles, California.  Mastered by Felix Salazar at FyK Studios. 
Cover photograph of my mother with her brothers and mother.

Dedicated to Christopher Don

Hard Luggage (2021, Falt)

Patrick Shiroishi: suona

Recorded live at Orange Door in February, 2020.  Mastered by Felix Salazar at FyK Studios. 
Cover art by Christian Schiefner. 

(holy alone) (2020, Never Content)

Patrick Shiroishi: field recordings, piano, glockenspiel, guitar, alto saxophone, laptop
Amber Navran: field recordings

Field recordings from Los Angeles, Tokyo, Ubud, Paris & Seattle
Instruments recorded at Orange Door on the 23rd and 24th of March, 2020. Mastered by Sean McCann. Cover art by Adam Sherry.

Benkyou (2020, B-Boim)

Patrick Shiroishi: alto saxophone
Radu Malfatti: composition

Recorded at Orange Door on the 4th of April, 2020.  Mastered by Felix Salazar.

"how hard is it to find a silence that hasn't already been found?"
-Francis Brown

"to Andrew Choate & Patrick Shiroishi"

Descension (2020, Thin Wrist)

Patrick Shiroishi: tenor saxophone, effects & voice

Recorded live at 2575 mission, Los Angeles, November 24, 2016.  Mixed and mastered by Felix Salazar.  Co-produced by Patrick Shiroishi & Felix Salazar. Cover art by Rob Sato. Design by D. Norsen.

For Isao

Eye for an Eye (2020, Armageddon Nova)

Patrick Shiroishi: sopranino saxophone

Recorded at Orange Door on 27th of March, 2019.  Mastered by Alan Jones.  Cover photograph by Felix Salazar

勉強 (2019, self)

Patrick Shiroishi: tenor saxophone
Radu Malfatti: composition

 Recorded in my room on the 28th of November, 2018.  Mastered by Felix Salazar.
 Cover photograph of my mother and her brothers. 

 Dedicated to Linda Sanchez

烏の涙 (2019, American Damage) 

Patrick Shiroishi: guitar & voice

Recorded live at home on the 20th of January, 2019.  Mastered by Felix Salazar.  

let the migrant children go home to their families 

The Sparrow's Tongue (2018, Fort Evil Fruit)

Patrick Shiroishi: alto, tenor & soprano saxophones, field recordings & snare drum
Uzuko Shiroishi: voice
Seiji Inoue: tankas

Recprded live at 2575 Mission in San Marino, California on the 23rd of November, 2017 by Patrick Shiroishi.  Mastered by Alan Jones.  Cover art by Michael Hentz

For Jo Ann Shiroishi

Tulean Dispatch (2017, Mondoj)

Patrick Shiroishi: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone & prepared piano

Recorded live at 2575 Mission in San Marino, California on the 14th of August, 2016 by Patrick Shiroishi.  Mastered by Felix Salazar.  Cover art by Paulina Okninska & Janek Ufnal

Dedicated to Ikuko Inoue

Ima (2016, Confront Recordings)

Patrick Shiroishi: alto saxophone, tape player, bells, ipod, pie tin, spoon, electric toothbrush & voice
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Recorded live at 2575 Mission in San Marino, California on the 1st of May, 2016 by Patrick
Shiroishi.  Mastered by Felix Salazar.  Cover art by Patrick Shiroishi. 

Niño Pequeño y Hombre Gordo (2015, Weird Cry)

Patrick Shiroishi: classical, acoustic & electric guitars
Henry Barajas: electric guitar on "lumbre desafinada"
Noah Guevara: electric guitar on "la batalla del paraiso"
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Recorded at 2575 Mission in San Marino, California on the 5th of July, 2015 by Patrick
Shiroishi.  Mixed by Noah Guevara.  Mastered by Ben Chisholm.  Cover art by Mariel Bayona. 

For my mother & father. 

White Sun Sutra (2014, Confront Recordings)
            母が逝き 父も去りにし つぎは我
            いかに 生きなん あと20余年
                                                     井上 有珠子
Patrick Shiroishi: alto saxophone, effects, soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone & voice
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Recorded live at The Wallace All Faiths Chapel in Orange, California on the 15th of
January, 2014 by Noah Guevara.  Mastered by Ben Chisholm.  Cover art by Dylan Fujioka. Tanka by Uzuko Shiroishi. 

Dedicated to Seiji Inoue. 

Black Sun Sutra (2013, Weird Cry) 
  
Patrick Shiroishi: tape recorder, baritone saxophone, electric toothbrush, pie tin & alto saxophone
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Recorded live at The Wallace All Faiths Chapel in Orange, California on the 17th of January, 2013 by Noah Guevara.  Mastered by Ben Chisholm. Cover art by Dylan Fujioka.

Dedicated to Sayoko Dorothy Shiroishi

​Collaborations

Camila Nebbia & Patrick Shiroishi - The Human Being as a Fragile Article (2021, Trouble In Mind) 
Shiroishi & Meek - Throw Away Your Books, Rally In The Streets (2021, Was Ist Das?) 
Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi - 山笑う (2021, Cached Media)
Claire Rousay & Patrick Shiroishi - Now Am Found (2021, Mended Dreams)
Luke Stewart / Patrick Shiroishi - Luke Stewart / Patrick Shiroishi (2021, Profane Illuminations) 
Chris Williams & Patrick Shiroishi - Sans Soleil (2021, Astral Spirits) 
𝔜𝔒𝔈 - To Exist Among Wolves (2021, American Decline)
Patrick Shiroishi & Zachary Paul - Of the Shapes of Hearts and Humans (2021, Tapeworm) 
Patrick Shiroishi & Dylan Fujioka - のの (2021, Riot Herb) 
Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi - 節分 (2021, Cached Media) 
Jessica Ackerley & Patrick Shiroishi - Extremities (2020, Notice Recordings)
Shiroishi / Tagi - Flock (2020, Fort Evil Fruit)
Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi - 風物詩 (2020, Cached Media) 
We Bow to No Masters - We Bow to No Masters (2020, Sige) 
Gerrit Hatcher / Rob Magill / Patrick Shiroishi - Triplet Fawns (2020, Kettle Hole) 
Ted Byrnes & Patrick Shiroishi - Grass Trees Air (2020, Hard Angle) 
Danketsu 10 - From a distance, everything shines (2020, Warm Winters Ltd.) 
Ted Byrnes - Open Source (2020, Hard Angle)
Patrick Shiroishi & Dylan Fujioka - Neba Neba (2020, Cacophonous Revival/Orb Tapes)
Tom Djll & Patrick Shiroishi - Scatter Patterns (2020)
Rob Magill's Human Resources Dance Ensemble - Human Resources Dance Ensemble (2020, Weird Cry)
Baiza / Fogel / Shiroishi - The Hound, the Toad & the Hare (2020, Personal Archives)
Byrnes / Shiroishi / Wyche - Long Day (2020, Astral Editions)
Kyle Motl, Patrick Shiroishi & T.J. Borden - In This Failing Light (2020, Confront Recordings)
Patrick Behnke - Water for Our Livelihood (2020) 
Nakata - El Sueño de Lilith (2020, Atlantic Rhythms)
The Musica Tracing Ensemble - Presents Swingtown & Other Classics (2020)  
Komeshi Trio - The Master Speaks Thrice (2019, Astral Spirits) 
Doctor 9 - Doctor 9 (2019, Weird Cry) 
Patrick Shiroishi, Vinny Golia, Dylan Fujioka & Alex Cline - Borasisi (2019, Astral Spirits)
Oort Smog - Smeared Pulse Transfers (2019, Sweatband)
Kogarashi - All sorrow feels ancient (2019, Insula Jazz)
The Hanne K Undectet - The Impossibilities of the Body (2019)
Danketsu 9 - Towards a Walk in the Sun (2019, Patient Sounds)
Miller Wrenn Large Ensemble - A Family History of Floods (2019)
Patrick Shiroishi & Noel Meek - Break Your Eyes (2019, Sploosh)
Patrick Shiroishi & Arturo Ibarra - LA Blues (2018, Eh?)
The Musical Tracing Ensemble - Live at Zebulon (2018)
Danketsu 9 - Thahraas (2018, Never Anything Records)
Sunreader - Shore Wide Rope (2018, Auasca)
SKY-CHU - /∫u/ (2018, Tapeworm)
Noah Guevara & Patrick Shiroishi / Kathryn Shuman - Roughage #2 (2018, KMAN 92.5)
Fujioka Shiroishi Casanova - Kage Cometa (2018, FMR Records)
Zachary Paul & Patrick Shiroishi - Longitude: Live at Roughage (2018, Touch)
Patrick Shiroishi Rob Magill duo - Eyes in the Dirt (2018, Weird Cry)
The Musical Tracing Ensemble - Swingtown and Other Classics (2018)
Pinned in Place - Rubbernecking at the Gates of Hell (2018, Reflective Tapes)
Simple Affections - Simple Affections (2018, Recital)
Doctor 9 -  At Creative Arts Incubator (2017)
Sewing Circle - Nausea (2017, Orb Tapes) 
Nakata - Bokanovsky's Process (2017, Jacknife Records)
Corima - Amaterasu (2016, Soleil Zeuhl)
Patrick Shiroishi's Black Sun Sutra - Anfinsen's Landmark (2016, Creative Sources)
Pinned in Place - Ghostwritten By (2016, Razorcake)
Nakata - Coppertones, Monochromes & Touchtones (2015)
Brian Ellis Group - Escondido Sessions (2015, El Paraiso)
Sunreader - Human Suffering (2015)
Patrick Shiroishi, Paul Carter & Ethan Sherman - Sunreader (2015)
Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect (2015, New Atlantis)
Oort Smog - Fear and Avoidance (2015)
Nakata - Mercury's Funeral Games (2103)
Nakata - Neptune's Lament (2013)
Nakata - Drowning in the Blood of Venus (2012)
Otomoto - Motion (2012)
Nakata - Saturn Devouring His Son (2012)
Nakata - Uranus, Leader of the Grey Sea (2012)
Corima - Quetzalcoatl (2012, Soleil Zeuhl)
Japanties - Pidge (2012)
Sewing Circle - Untitled (2012)
Nakata - Sun (2012)
Sewing Circle - Flux and Opposition (2011)
Japanties - Chuke (2010)


also appears on:
​Christian Lovers - Untitled (2021)
River Priest - Alone in the Graveyard (2021) 
Matthew J. Rolin - The Dreaming Bridge (2021)  
​M. Sage - The Wind of Things (2021) 
Marcelina - Elysian Mourning (2021)
Nick Malkin - A Thing in Middle Distance (2020)
Rare Form - Waste Me Here (2020) 
Radio Kapital - Перамен! A Compilation for Belarus (2020)
A Dead Forest Index - I See One Stone Fall on One Stone Falling (2020) 
Garden Portal - For a Better Tomorrow (2020)
ATTN:SPAN - ATTN:SPAN (2020)
Nick Malkin - A Typical Night in the Pit (2020) 
Mass Ornament - Mass Ornament (2019)
Astral Spirits - Astral Ascending: Celebrating 5 years of Astral Spirits (2019)
Jerkagram - & friends (2019)
Evan Geesman - NewAgeSewage (2019)
Dear Nora - Skulls Remix (2019)
Hanne K - The Detachment of Visual Existence (2018) 
Jerkagram - All Eyes on Me (2018)
Alfred Minus - Gatelands (2017)
Temo Molina - Sound & Fury (2017)
Jerkagram - Room for Dessert (2017)
Fister & Frank - Fister & Frank (2017)
​Time & Energy - The Supple (2017) 
Boarchucker - Boarchucker (2017) 
Musical Care - Home Recordings for Animals (2016)
Blaak Heat - Shifting Mirrors (2016)
Evan Geesman - Coils (2016)
Cuauhtemoc - Sundowning (2015)
Time & Energy - Open Channels (2015)
Flying Hand - Flying Hand (2014)
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty (2013)
White Horse - Pac&Big (2012)
Time & Energy - Strange Kind of Focus (2012)