New CD — Circle Snare available April 20th from No Fun Productions:
June 2008
Carlos
Giffoni/ John Wiese duo at the Knitting Factory, June 12:
Live at East River Ampitheater in Manhattan:
May 2008
Aaron Dilloway & John Wiese duo in Detroit:
Three festival dates:
Donau in Krems, Austria — duo with Nico Vascellari
Dissonanze in Rome, Italy — trio with Stephen O'Malley and Nico Vascellari
No Fun in New York, NY — solo
Some photos contributed to a group show "Noise/Art" at KS Art Gallery, curated by Thurston Moore, across from No Fun in NYC.
April 2008
Sissy Spacek west coast tour with Yellow Swans.
Three new Helicopter releases:
The Gossip/ Sissy Spacek
split 7"
Helicopter, H 51
The Gossip recorded at the Smell with deluxe accutremonts and Sissy Spacek deliver their complete set from No Fun 2007. Mailorder receives exclusive clear vinyl.
Sissy Spacek
California Ax 4xCD
Helicopter, H 50
Up to this point Sissy Spacek have only released 4 proper albums, all of which could probably be squeezed together onto one CD. What we have in this release is 4 new full length albums recorded throughout 2007. Tinsel Dripping Ink (disk 1) is 26 tracks in 45 minutes covering all territory from grindcore, noise, electro-acoustic improv, musique concrete, noisecore, and electronics. It's primarily made up of new work, but also roots through the cutting floor for the best bits that didn't make it onto previous efforts for one reason or another, with a few tracks dating as far back as 1998. Police (disk 2) is 11 tracks in 40 minutes of electro-acoustic improv with girls on drums. Abreq Ad Habra (disk 3) gets it's title from an Arabic phrase pre-dating "Abracadabra" that translates "hurl a lightning bolt even unto death" which we'll choose to misread as "hurl an even lightning bolt until death." This disc contains the most raw recordings Sissy Spacek have ever released, the first being a 40 minute inferno recorded on KXLU and the second from a 20 minute live set in 2002 in St. Louis. 13-Tet Los Angeles (disk 4) is a live document of a 13 piece lineup that performed two sets at The Smell in Los Angeles in December 2007 and is also the first live performance of a score by John Wiese. There are also many contributors to this set aside from original members of John Wiese and Corydon Ronnau: Mitchell Brown, Sarah Cake, Kevin Drumm, Gerritt, Kate Hall (Mika Miko), Joseph Hammer (Solid Eye), Aaron Hemphill (Liars, Skull Sküll), Jesse Jackson (Flaspar), Greg Kelley (Nmperign), Tim Koh (White Magic, Ariel Pink), Danny McClain (Grand Ulena), Giles Miller, Oblivia (Smegma), Andy Ortmann (Panicsville), Sam Ott (The Fucking Angels), Tom Recchion (Airway, LAFMS), Damion Romero (Speculum Fight), Jarrett Silberman (Skull Sküll, Young People), Dean Spunt (No Age), David Scott Stone (Melvins, Get Hustle), and Shannon Walter (16 Bitch Pileup).
John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh
New York / Atlanta CD
Helicopter, H 49
"JW — CSY — NYC — ATL. Two best sets from 2007 tour by developing audio partnership, direct soundboard recording. Steel string binds knobs, vocal cries machine code, fuzz and foil avalanche, fireworks and drought. Epic movements in entirety, minimal editing meddling. Words no good, just jam. Bye!"
Also new:
Sissy Spacek
French Record CD
Dual Plover, Australia
Sissy Spacek's fifth album. Featuring Kevin Drumm, Kate Hall, Sam Ott, Corydon Ronnau, John Wiese, and C. Spencer Yeh. LP coming soon from Troubleman Unlimited.
March 2008
March tour with Deathroes of the Southwest.
February 2008
Two weird shows:
John Wiese / Zbigniew Karkowski / Damion Romero / Daniel Menche — Tijuana, Mexico, Feb 10.
The Gossip / Mika Miko / John Wiese at The Smell, filmed for MTV, Feb 12.
January 2008
See Events page for Scandinavia/Germany tour dates !
December 2007
Trailer for Revenge installation video with Nico Vascellari:
November 2007
Live in London at Upset The Rhythm:
Sissy Spacek will be performing as a 13-Tet at the Smell in Los Angeles, December 13.
Now booking January 2008 dates in Scandinavia and Germany. See the events page for listings !
Check the events page for upcoming West/East Coast tours with Gerritt and C. Spencer Yeh.
Two new Helicopter releases:
John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh
Tiny Red Tables b/w Big American Hole 7"
Helicopter, H 48
At one point during the Free Noise tour Evan Parker pulled out a little black notebook and read back to us all the names of weird bands we'd been discussing. Really funny/embarrassing coming from the mouth of E.P. We played at this one club that had all of these tall red tables with tiny circle tops. E.P. said that our new unit should be called "Tiny Red Tables", but later he was talking about some 7" and said, "you know, with the big american hole" ... so we decided that was a better name ... but until either of those units surface, you can listen to this 7" of me and Spencer, which is handheld tape recordings of source material and stage clips that we used during the sets. It's really low-fi, but sounds great, and is an astounding 26 minutes total, no joke. First unofficial Free Noise document. Edition of 150.
John Wiese with Failing Lights
Southern Swamp 7"
Helicopter, H 44
John Wiese with Failing Lights (Connelly) recorded live in Florida during the Wolf Eyes/JW tour, November 2006. Lathe-cut record with hand made stencil cover by Corydon Ronnau, stamped and printed labels, numbered edition of 30.
Jettatura with John Wiese/Leopard Leg CS out now on Hex Out Tapes in London. Numbered edition of 50 which were mostly sold on the UK wing of my tour, but contact them to see if they have any left.
UK/Europe tour was great. Report/pics soon hopefully.
July 2007
Joe Colley & John Wiese "A Mild Case Of Slit Wrists" 7" is out now on Helicopter and available exclusively by direct mailorder and at Issues in Oakland. Lathe-cut numbered edition of 40 with photograph.
LHD "Normandie" 2x7" is out now on Tape Room and available exclusively by direct mailorder. Lathe-cut numbered edition of 20.
On July 21st I'll be opening for John Duncan at the Compound in San Francisco. More information available at 23Five.
Ecstatic Peace has just released a compilation cassette I put together featuring artists from the 90028 zip code, including: The Cherry Point, Sissy Spacek, Allen Pyle, Tom Grimley, Obstacle Corpse, Damion Romero, John Wiese, Seven Depressions, and GX Jupitter-Larsen. Edition of 200 copies.
Three new records on Helicopter: Waves "13" LP (Olson/Wiese), Pain Jerk & John Wiese "Chocolate Grinder" 7" and Traumatic Stress 7" compilation featuring every combination of Phil Blankenship, Corydon Ronnau and John Wiese. Sorry, no direct mailorder at this time.
Feature article in the new issue of Skyscraper magazine.
John Wiese "Inescapable Conclusion" LP is out now on Troniks. Solo recordings from six of the Sunn O))) tour dates that I opened for in Europe and Scandinavia. One-sided LP in an edition of 100 with silkscreened cover. Available exclusively from Troniks mailorder.
Live instore at Family in Los Angeles with Jarrett Silberman on April 1st. Flyer.
Short trip to Seattle to play at Rebar and Portland to record with Smegma.
Preview of Cuckoo on Youtube:
February 2007
Misanthropic Agenda has just reissued an out of print Sissy Spacek album called Remote Whale Control. It's the album that most features a McClain/Ronnau/Wiese line-up with more emphasis on raw performance than studio hallucination, heavy on free drums and guitar. This CD also includes a previously unreleased live track, recorded in St.Louis with the same trio line-up.
Anarchymoon has released a beautiful 2xLP of a complete live show that happened on Friday the 13th, January 2006 at Il Corral in Los Angeles. Complete sets by Dead Machines, Damion Romero and John Wiese plus a collaborative side.
Blossoming Noise has just released a deluxe collaborative 7" between myself and Dave Phillips, recorded in 2005 a couple days after I got home from touring with Sunn and at the end of Dave's US tour. There is also a special edition with t-shirt available from their website.
Photos from the Crash Festival at ICA earlier this year.
Sound Projector playlist on Resonance 104.4FM from "Atoms of Pure Wiese".
California boxset reviewed in depth at Dumb Ear.
Collection reviewed at Brainwashed.
Short video playing with Sunn in Paris on Youtube:
November 2006
I'll be playing in Italy with Stephen O'Malley at the end of the month at Nico Vascellari's installation at Viafarini in Milan. We will be playing at the opening and recording a studio album while there, as well as playing a three hour trio with Oren Ambarchi in Bologna.
L to R: Nico Vascellari, Stephen O'Malley, John Wiese in Milan.
October 2006
Hanson has released a collection of all the older American Tapes releases with Wolf Eyes. The art work is in full color for the first time and looks amazing. Equinox is now sold out — pick this one up now!
September 2006
September/October East and Midwest tour with Wolf Eyes starts at the end of the month. Check live section for all of the dates. Hope to see you there.
No Fun has released a new solo album of mine called Tumbler. Label description: "Total Head Crush Destruction from Mr Wiese. If your head was made out of a boulder the sounds here enclosed are still designed to leave behind nothing but blood stain dust. Side A is the eternal acid rain that we all fear slowly melting your skin away and reminding of your insignificant humanity, Side B is a metallic behemoth continously punching you from all directions leaving you with just enough unbroken bones so that you can breath. Another No Fun Classic. Limited to 300."
Helicopter turns 39 and 40 with two new collaborative 7"s, one with GX Jupitter-Larsen and one with Bruce Russell. I'm getting these only a couple days before leaving for tour, so there will be no chance for distribution until I get back, but I will be bringing some on tour with me.
Troniks has released a new album of Wolf Eyes with John Wiese called "Equinox". Our forth collaboration.
Misanthropic Agenda has just released a new Sissy Spacek album called "Devils Cone and Palm", the first release with a line-up of Jackson/Ronnau/Wiese. Recordings are based on the two live performances we did recently in Los Angeles and Oakland.
Gerritt and I are playing two duos in Los Angeles and Oakland along with The Cherry Point and Obstacle Corpse.
Exoteric reviewed in Pitchfork.
Limbs of the Fawn reviewed in Semtex.
Multiplication reviewed in Semtex.
July 2006
Smegma and I have features in the new issue of The Wire.
I played electronics on the new Cattle Decapitation album "Karma Bloody Karma" — out now on Metal Blade.
I'll be touring the whole US for six weeks in the fall with Wolf Eyes. Dates will be added to the upcoming live section as they are booked.
Feature on me in the new online version of Grooves.
Blossoming Noise has just released a new solo cd of mine called Black Magic Pond. It was recorded on the east coast last year and sits between the sound of the Arrhythmia 3"cd and the conceptual framework of Magical Crystal Blah. Also features the surreal vision of Suzy Poling.
Troniks/Groundfault/RRR have secured full-bore maniac status with a 10xLP boxset of contemporary California artists. An essential one of the era to say the least ...
I've known Andy Ortmann (Panicsville) for a very long time. He just released a collaborative CD of ours called "Recorder Out of Tune" on his label Nihilist.
A track from the upcoming Gerritt & John Wiese CD titled "The Disappearing Act" appears on the Wire Tapper CD with this months issue of The Wire. ltd, 40,000.
Sissy Spacek's first CD has been reissued by PACrec.
I will be playing solo at the Mission Creek festival in San Francisco at The Lab on Thursday, May 18th and Sissy Spacek will be playing at Misanthropic Agendain Oakland on Saturday, May 20th.
Hive Mind & John Wiese 10" is out now on Chondritic. Cover art by John Olson. Order via Hanson.
Metalux & John Wiese CD is out now on Load. Follow the link for info, mp3 and mailorder. It was recorded in my apartment when these spooky ladies came through town on their last tour of the west coast. Carbon even made a lightning bolt on my floor with some faulty wiring ...
The Cherry Point & John Wiese LP is out now on Troniks.
I will not be with Sunn O))) on their upcoming EU tour with Earth, but I did produce a track for a Sunn/Earth split tour LP, released by Southern Lord. I'm not sure if it will be available outside Europe.
Thorough review of Teenage Hallucination on Brainwashed.
Troniks celebrates 200 releases with a split 7" between The Cherry Point and myself.
Dead Machines, Damion Romero and I will be playing live at Il Corral in Los Angeles on Friday the 13th.
In the 90's I was a teenager living in St. Louis. Troniks has released a CD of this era called "Teenage Hallucination". There is also a new CD by The Cherry Point that I helped mix.
Dead Machines & John Wiese collaborative LP is now available courtesy of Rococo.
November 2005
Merzbow & John Wiese CD and limited 7" picture disc are finally available. Order from Misanthropic Agenda. The 7" is a hand numbered edition of 500 with two crushing non-CD tracks.
Also new on Misanthropic Agenda is Gerritt's debut CD that I helped edit and arrange. I also play on one track.
Out now: John Wiese "Spectral Hand" 7", limited to 500 copies, available from Meu Dia De Morte.
The long awaited John Wiese "Winter Vacation" 7", limited to 300 copies on white vinyl, is now available from Blue Sky Writing.
KPR and Helicopter have released the third and final installment of the Magical Crystal Blah recycling music project. Volume three is now available and was created by John Wiese exclusively using volume two as source material.
Two mammoth shows in Sunn O))) in Los Angeles at the Knitting Factory (pix) and in San Francisco at the Independent (pix) — SF was also with Gerritt and Nate Carson ...
I will be opening for Sonic Youth at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on June 10th. Tickets go on sale June 4th. This will also be the release show for "Magical Crystal Blah".
