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AIRWAY
“Live at Zebulon”
In December 2019, Los Angeles Free Music Society pioneers Airway performed live at Zebulon with a stacked cast of collaborators, unleashing a constantly mutating wave of raucous free improv experiments and unexpected art damage sonics from their collection of objects, electronics, and self-made musical instruments. Now carefully mixed & mastered by John Wiese from a deluxe multichannel soundboard recording for, perhaps, the best sounding live recording in Airway’s long-running history.
Airway lineup: Ace Farren Ford, Joseph Hammer, Kevin Laffey, Keith Lubow, Maya, Aaron Moore, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, Michael Ruiz, Vetza, John Wiese.
11,50€
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THE CHERRY POINT
“Black Witchery”
A black mass ritual for fans of heavy sound and lurid nightmares, photocopied fanzines and grey market VHS catalogues. The Cherry Point casts a dark spell across nearly an hour of spectral violence and amplified clatter, crafting a murky potion of macabre frequencies, derelict moans, and ear-piercing terror. Mastered LOUD by Control’s Thomas Garrison and now packaged in a deluxe 6-panel digipack designed by John Wiese.
11,50€
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3 CD box
SISSY SPACEK
“Radio Format”
While we may live in an over saturated time of hi-definition, microwave-pulse paced images and video snippets, one format that has remained in play since the early 1900’s is that of radio. A format perhaps overlooked most in its ability to not only act as a conduit of audio, but also that of a uniquely non-visual live performance, facilitating a direct audio-only portal from performer to the imagination of the listener.
Radio is a place where live collaboration and conversation can occur not just between performers, but with that of the unseen and unheard. There is no immediately distinguishable audience reaction for the performer to intake or react upon. No other sounds or stimuli for the audio generator to realize other than that of which are produced from the point of broadcast. The listener however, collaborates deeply (and often unconsciously) in the listening experience dependent on their environment. A car radio stuck in loud honking Los Angeles traffic with the windows down. A live improv broadcast blasted on a boombox in the back room of a noisy, busy restaurant kitchen. A strange mix show heard only through an open window, intriguing a passerby with the small tidbit that is overheard, unaware of the content let alone the station or origin of the sound. This methodology forces new ways of listening as well as performing, and if there’s one unit evolving and dissecting audio that thrives in such an area of exploration, it is that of Sissy Spacek. The primary core of the ever morphing group here consists of John Wiese and Charlie Mumma, but as shown on these recordings and throughout their discography, Sissy Spacek not only includes, but more accurately incorporates a host of brilliant collaborators from many walks of life and realms. Here we find Sara Taylor (Youth Code) Sarah Bernat (Bad News, 16 Bitch Pile Up), GX Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters), and Damion Romero (Speculum Flight, Astromero) collaborating with the group on these utterly unique, live KXLU broadcasts (a Los Angeles station which Damion Romero himself hosts the decades long running Psychotechnics program that these very sessions appeared on).
Which brings us back back to perhaps one of the greatest tricks, traps, and aspects found in radio — What are we hearing? Who has made this sound and where does it come from? Do these sounds come from the radio room itself? Or are they a product of some crude tape recording forged in a bedroom and brought to be manipulated? Was the group together throughout these decisions or were they conjured individually? What was the vibe and time of day? Was the studio well lit, or draped in darkness for these mysterious sessions? Who is doing what and how? With the visual senses removed, and while simultaneously understanding that these were live radio performances, even a veteran listener is still left to be puzzled by the thoughts and sounds therein. May this collection mark a crucial chapter in the infinite sonic freedom that Sissy Spacek represents. An ability to wildly, freely, expertly navigate the ever changing waters of improvisation and experimental creativity. An appreciation for forms and formats new and old. A respect and reverence for the transmission of thought and sound in all forms, and for the powerful experiences that these methods evoke. (Brandon Hill)
32,00€
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LHD
“In Mono”
BURNING IN HELL WITH NO RELIEF. Nearly two full hours of scorched audio and blistering paralysis recorded in Los Angeles between 2002 and 2007 by the double flamethrower unit of PHIL BLANKENSHIP and JOHN WIESE. Compiling four original LHD albums onto two compact discs, featuring the complete recordings of Curtains (PACrec), Young and Restless (Blossoming Noise), Opaque (RRR/Pure) and Limbs of the Fawn (Misanthropic Agenda).
16,00€
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STRAIN OF LAWS
“The Plotted Pavillion”
From the cryptic duo of Aaron Hemphill and John Wiese, a bleak industrial landscape bathed in heavy hypnotics and mood-drenched vocals. Recorded in 2010 in Venice, California, cauldron-brewed for a decade, and finally escaped in a low hanging fog. An absolutely essential CD reissue of the ultra-limited double 7-inch on Helicopter.
11,50€
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HIJOKAIDAN / SISSY SPACEK
“Entropic”
2019 release
On the verge of their 40th and in the midst of their 20th anniversaries, respectively, Hijokaidan and Sissy Spacek merge in Tokyo for their first collaboration, featuring Jojo Hiroshige, Junko, T. Mikawa, Charlie Mumma, Futoshi Okano, Tentenko (guest), and John Wiese.
Hijokaidan formed in 1979, marking the first wave of groups in Japan exploring extreme noise. Sissy Spacek formed in 1999, often playing in large ensembles of players, and frequently exploring grindcore as a base for creating extreme music, often while eschewing the notion of music altogether.
During Sissy Spacek’s 20th anniversary tour in Japan, the recordings of “Amok Time” and “Seven Directions” were made with Hijokaidan in collaboration. While Hijokaidan’s sound has been described as a continuous climax of your entire progressive rock collection, Sissy Spacek’s “Twenty-Five Fragments” is a sequence of peak chaos from their 2018 tour, recorded on walkman for maximum effect.
Additionally, the CD edition contains Hijokaidan’s full live set at Akihabara Club Goodman.
18,00€
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HIJOKAIDAN / SISSY SPACEK
“Entropic”
2019 release
On the verge of their 40th and in the midst of their 20th anniversaries, respectively, Hijokaidan and Sissy Spacek merge in Tokyo for their first collaboration, featuring Jojo Hiroshige, Junko, T. Mikawa, Charlie Mumma, Futoshi Okano, Tentenko (guest), and John Wiese.
Hijokaidan formed in 1979, marking the first wave of groups in Japan exploring extreme noise. Sissy Spacek formed in 1999, often playing in large ensembles of players, and frequently exploring grindcore as a base for creating extreme music, often while eschewing the notion of music altogether.
During Sissy Spacek’s 20th anniversary tour in Japan, the recordings of “Amok Time” and “Seven Directions” were made with Hijokaidan in collaboration. While Hijokaidan’s sound has been described as a continuous climax of your entire progressive rock collection, Sissy Spacek’s “Twenty-Five Fragments” is a sequence of peak chaos from their 2018 tour, recorded on walkman for maximum effect.
Additionally, the CD edition contains Hijokaidan’s full live set at Akihabara Club Goodman.
11,50€
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TESTICLE HAZARD
“Kiki & Kastor”
A blistering blitzkrieg of blazing electronics, explosive audio, and psychedelic sound recorded in Oslo by the duo of Lasse Marhaug and Tommi Keränen. It's a fast-paced frenzy blurring the lines between man, machines, madness, and ecstasy, showcasing two top artists working together at the peak of their abilities.
A Troniks / Helicopter co-release, 2021
11,50€
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Lasse MARHAUG – John WIESE
“Country and western”
Lasse Marhaug & John Wiese, recorded January 2008 at the best studio in Oslo.
14,00€