Sissy Spacek
Remote Whale Control
© 2007 Sissy Spacek
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Misanthropic Agenda is pleased to reissue Sissy Spacek’s second recorded album “Remote Whale Control,” featuring Danny McClain (drums), Corydon Ronnau (guitar), John Wiese (guitar, electronics) and more emphasis on raw performance than studio hallucination, heavy on free drums and guitar. These recordings also provided much source material for Spacek’s subsequent album “Scissors.” This reissue marks the album’s first edition on CD and includes a previously unreleased live track, recorded in St. Louis, with the same trio line-up.
Review:
Vital Weekly #569
By now John Wiese is a kind of well-known, I think, due to his involvement with Sunn O))) and Bastard Noise, and so the vaults are open for re-issue. Sissy Spacek is the oldest band that Wiese was involved in, before moving to Los Angeles. Back in the days, Sissy Spacek was Corydon Ronnau on guitar, Danny McClain on drums and Wiese on guitar and electronics (these days the band is still Wiese, Ronnau and Jesse Jackson). Today the band uses the old recordings which are heavily put in collage mode and set against newly recorded material. With 'Remote Whale Control' we get to hear what it sounded like in 2001 when it was originally recorded and released. Heavy duty free music. Drums are in an absolutely free spirit, while the sound is picked up by Wiese's electronics. Both guitars are in similar free noise mood. This is not what these boys were taught in music school, and that's great. These days I have my reservations against noise, because much of it is made without imagination and all too easily, but in this case sweat comes bursting out of your speakers. No easy way is chosen, tension is all the way present, balancing the live noise act versus the studio manipulation. One could wish there is more like this. (FdW)