「Entrance」

Sissy Spacek「Entrance」2xLP/CD/Digital

Sissy Spacek
Entrance
2xLP/CD/Digital
Shelter Press, France

Entering its 26th year of activity, the morphing, Los Angeles based
experimental outfit, Sissy Spacek, joins Shelter Press with Entrance,
among the project's most captivating outings to date. Encountering the
duo of John Wiese and Charlie Mumma joined in various configurations
by an incredible cast of collaborators - Tim Barnes, Marco Fusinato,
Aaron Hemphill, Brad Laner, Katsura Mouri, Ralf Wehowsky, and C
Spencer Yeh - collectively transformed into a series a deeply intimate
and delicate gestures of musique concr?te, Entrance radically
repositions the possibilities presented by group improvisation outside
of time and place.
Founded at the end of the last millennium, the Los Angeles based
project, Sissy Spacek, initially emerged from the knotted, fiery
context 1990s American noise and grindcore, producing sheets of
visceral sonority that quickly set the scene on its head. Going
through numerous evolutions, before eventually settling as a duo of
John Wiese and Charlie Mumma - joined by a rotating and often
recurring cast collaborators - over the last 25 years the band has
continuously entered states of evolution that have defied the
expectations of its own context, seeding the sonic extremes noise with
subtle and sophisticated approaches to free improvisation and musique
concr?te.
Fiercely positioning its efforts within the outer reaches of
contemporary experimental music, while resisting the constraints of a
singular sound or proximity, Wiese regards Sissy Spacek as being
primarily centred around the practice of musique concr?te and the
pursuit of extremes. From its earliest releases - collage treatments
of material gathered from the band's full throttle practice sessions -
the project's conceptual framework has continuously evolved within a
deeply engaged process of experimentation, not only reworking tactical
approaches, but also definitions and perception regarding the location
and action of their work. In recent years, this has led to an
increasingly varied and diverse output. Percolating within, is a
thread marked by a striking sense of delicacy and intimacy, driving
forward while doubling as an unexpected challenge, in real time, to
perceptions connected to the band's past. Entrance is the most recent
of these.
Embarking upon the four compositions that comprise the finalized four
sides of Entrance, Wiese and Mumma enlisted longstanding
collaborators, Tim Barnes, Marco Fusinato, Aaron Hemphill, Brad Laner,
Katsura Mouri, and C Spencer Yeh, as well as new initiate, Ralf
Wehowsky (of the seminal German electronic noise collective P16.D4),
requesting a contribution of sounds from each, determined by a general
set guidelines that dictated certain qualities the given sonorities,
while allowing for the expression of each player's distinct creative
voice. The sets of resulting recordings were then chopped, harvested,
manipulated, and reassembled as the four tape compositions that make
up the album - Web Of Unfolding Appearance, Figure Of Reflected Light,
Trancher And The Inheritors, True Dimension (From The Opaque - Spike)
- each blurring the lines of authorship and clear creative proximity
in remarkable ways.
Where historical gestures of musique concr?te tend to draw upon
non-instrumental sound sources - regarding its sonorous material as
raw elements, unburdened by inherent meaning or association, to be
transformed and imbued with musicality - Sissy Spacek turns this
position on its head. Entrance comprises works of musique concr?te
that not only draw upon instrumental sound sources, with all their
possible meanings or associations, but also individual characters and
personalities of their players, crediting each resulting piece to its
respective configuration of contributors.
As such, Entrance is an effort of sound collage defined by a rare
sense of intimacy and humanity: four pieces that often take on the
resemblance of group improvisation, but have, in fact, been assembled
outside of time and place. Bent under the ever-present hand of Wiese's
tape treatments and manipulation, each of the album's four
compositions unfurl startling states of sonic abstraction and
percolating texture, marked by a striking sense of hard-shifting
structure, that culminate as tense, driven manifestations of ambient
music: scrapes, squeals, rattles feedback, rolling drums, bouncing
tones, whispers, bent electronics, electric artefacts, and seemingly
everything else under the sun, configured into immersive, sublime
mediations in sound from the most improbable events.

2025年4月4日リリース
Tim Barnes (3)
Marco Fusinato (2)
Aaron Hemphill (1)
Brad Laner (2)
Katsura Mouri (1)
Charlie Mumma
Ralf Wehowsky (1, 4)
John Wiese
C. Spencer Yeh (1, 2, 3)