***Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released a broad range of work, from grindcore to musique concrète, with a considerable gulf of experimentation in between. Their performance at Empty Gallery in Hong Kong and its peripheral documentation is an example of the band’s abstracting style and approach. Recorded on the occasion of Takeshi Murata’s “Infinite Doors” opening, the album combines a multi-tracked live set of electronics and grindcore, which bookends an array of recordings made throughout their 5-day residency, combining graveyard field recordings, barrel scrapings, impromptu noisecore, and tape collage.
CD $12.00
06/02/2023
***While we may live in an oversaturated 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...
3XCD $31.45
12/09/2021
***A screeching smash of searing grit and demolished shock from the trio of Blankenship / Mumma / Wiese, which can be identified as a distinct subgroup within the Sissy Spacek discography, responsible for such carnage as Wreck (2013), Basement (2014), and Slow Move (2017). BMW stands as a sharp-edged monument in the trio’s advancing decay, culled from a session at Blankenship's high-security Bronson studio and utilizing the equipment and environment that fueled sessions by LHD, White Gold, and The Cherry Point. Limited edition, partially metalized CD housed in a 6-panel digipack, featuring a series of detailed collages by Wiese.
CD $8.50
05/07/2021
***Uncompromising large ensemble studio recordings from Los Angeles, 2016: JOHN WIESE, CHARLIE MUMMA, BILL NACE (VAMPIRE BELT, BODY/HEAD), MARTIN ESCALANTE, TED BYRNES and elders of the LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY—ACE FARREN FORD (SMEGMA) and JOE POTTS and RICK POTTS (AIRWAY, LE FORTE FOUR).
2XCD $13.25
11/06/2020
New and revelatory full length album with a trio line-up of Charlie Mumma, Jay Randall, and John Wiese. A world of mesmerizing evocations and alternating realms. An unceasing kingdom of ash and scorch. Barbarous events augmented with glamour and suffering. A cruel attack on the unexpected success of the Rubik’s Cube.
CD $11.25
10/02/2020
***20th anniversary edition of SISSY SPACEK's first album, first ever LP edition. Frantic, violent, destroyed music. "Probably the world’s first plunderphonic grindcore record. Although in this case all of the plundering is self inflicted and self directed as they record their own blasting grind record and attack it with a razor blade and spit out a garbled, sputtering, stuttering no-wave masterpiece. Think Oval, if he only scratched Drop Dead and Crossed Out CDs. Nice.”—Aquarius Records
LP $19.95
02/14/2020
***20th anniversary edition of SISSY SPACEK's second album, first reissue since it's original release. Incomprehensible, discombobulated. “This four-track explosion of sound had my jaw agape from the first note to the last. With minor percussive breaks between sizzling hard-wired damage, this wasn’t at all what I expected. Instead John Wiese has offered tracks that intensely re-align your senses for their fifteen minutes of “insane”. It’s not until we get to the final track “Please Don’t Sleep While We Explain” that the wash of colorful collision is tempered and muffled to conclusion. It’s a scream-fest, jazz jam with fire to spare. Not for the weak hearted.”—TJ Norris
2X7" $16.35
02/14/2020
***Sissy Spacek celebrates its 20th anniversary with the release of its 30th full-length album of unrelenting, hellish grindcore/noisecore. Features John Wiese, a veteran of the American and international grindcore/noisecore/noise underground, on bass/electronics/vocals, and Charlie Mumma (Knelt Rote, Human Agony) on percussion/vocals. Artwork by John Wiese.
LP $19.95
05/03/2019
***An entropic vortex of full-room tear-up texture. Duo lineup of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese. Originally released in 2018 on LP/CS, this crucial CD reissue brings back into a print a pinnacle of modern, harsh musique concrète - with nearly 15 minutes of bonus material!
LP $14.75
08/24/2018
CD $9.75
08/05/2022
***Duration Groups is a large ensemble featuring TED BYRNES (percussion, frequent LAFMS collaborator), MIKE DU BOSE (vocals, SUPER BAD), ACE FARREN FORD (woodwinds/vocals, SMEGMA), BRAD LANER (guitar, MEDICINE / DEBT OF NATURE), CHARLIE MUMMA (drums), and JOHN WIESE (bass/electronics). File Under: HELLISH CRUSHING CHAOS.
CD $12.00
05/13/2016
MP3 $7.99
05/03/2016
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05/03/2016
***Reversed Normalization is a collaboration with JAY RANDALL (AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED) and CHRIS GOUDREAU (SICKNESS) recorded in Western Massachusetts during SISSY SPACEK's 2015 summer tour. Full line-up: MIKE DU BOSE (vocals), Goudreau (electronics), CHARLIE MUMMA (vocals, drums), Randall (vocals, electronics), and JOHN WIESE (bass, electronics). File Under: HELLISH INCOMPREHENSIBLE NOISECORE.
CD $12.00
05/13/2016
MP3 $7.99
05/03/2016
FLAC $8.99
05/03/2016
***Helicopter is proud to present SISSY SPACEK's highly anticipated first grindcore full-length. Disfathom consists of 18 tracks. Following a number of 7-inches—Lead Their Exit (Dais), Window Hammer (Chondritic Sound), Contretemps (PPM)—the band return as a duo (CHARLIE MUMMA and JOHN WIESE), finally releasing songs audiences have been hearing live for the past two years over numerous tours across the US and Europe. File Under: HELLISH UNRELENTING GRINDCORE. NO SLOW PARTS—NO MIDTEMPO—NO BREAKDOWNS.
LP $15.50
05/13/2016
CD $12.00
05/13/2016
MP3 $6.99
05/03/2016
FLAC $7.99
05/03/2016
An hour of face-melting noise from JOHN WIESE, CHARLIE MUMMA and KIMIHIDE KUSAFUKA.
CD $12.00
11/04/2014
MP3 $6.99
10/31/2014
FLAC $7.99
10/31/2014
On Xmas day in 1999, the channels of the noise canon received a new entry into its ranks by the name of SISSY SPACEK. 15 years later, the outfit, held together by core members JOHN WIESE and CHARLIE MUMMA, has left a littered trail of damaged recordings and countless performances in its wake. Known for it’s cult output and conceptual performances—each idea folding over the last to create havoc in the way that most would care to avoid, Sissy Spacek takes this all head on. Their newest 7” shows the band exploring song-based material (see also their live shows), employing it’s newest member SARA TAYLOR to provide vocal accompaniment to their special brand of furious destruction. To those familiar with their previous works on PPM, Chondritic Sound, Gilgongo or Wiese’s own Helicopter imprint, one will instantly welcome their signature hybrid of grindcore blasts and avant-garde sensibility and remain captured by the band’s semblance of leftfield song writing.
MP3 $3.99
06/23/2014
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06/23/2014
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05/15/2014
FLAC $4.99
05/15/2014
MP3 $2.99
04/18/2014
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04/18/2014
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04/01/2014
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04/01/2014
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04/01/2014
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04/01/2014
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12/23/2013
FLAC $2.99
12/23/2013
***Uncompromisingly bleak and harsh noisecore made from drums, vocals, bass, and electronics. All fifteen tracks from CHARLIE MUMMA and JOHN WIESE's Gate seven-inch (A Dear Girl Called Wendy, 2013), all five tracks from their Incomprehensible Dehumanization seven-inch (Gilgongo, 2014), and a six-minute bonus track “Live At 799 Towne Ave,” recorded February 2015.
CD $9.75
12/18/2015
MP3 $1.99
12/10/2013
FLAC $2.99
12/10/2013
MP3 $5.99
10/11/2013
MP3 $4.99
10/11/2013
MP3 $5.94
07/01/2013
MP3 $1.98
06/11/2013
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05/22/2012
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04/03/2012
***A lo-fi garage clash by PHIL BLANKENSHIP, JESSE JACKSON, CHARLIE MUMMA, CORYDON RONNAU and JOHN WIESE, recorded during preparation for the December 2011 SISSY SPACEK tour. Thudding sickness, black-souled vocal retch, and thrashing violence turn to blistering white out. Recorded direct to tape and straight to hell at F-House.
MP3 $4.95
01/31/2012
MP3 $4.99
11/01/2011
MP3 $9.90
11/01/2011
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11/01/2011
SISSY SPACEK’s first album with a JACKSON / RONNAU / WIESE lineup, produced from totally gutter sessions in Los Angeles and Oakland in 2005 and 2006.
MP3 $1.99
07/11/2011
A digital reissue of the second album from SISSY SPACEK—JOHN WIESE, DANNY McCLAIN, and CORYDON RONNAU. Remote Whale Control places more emphasis on raw performance than studio hallucination, heavy on free drums and guitar. The tracks also provided much of the source material used on the band’s subsequent Scissors.
MP3 $4.95
07/11/2011
An on going project of prolific artist JOHN WIESE, SISSY SPACEK has taken many forms: intricate collages of the small, quiet, details that trickle through in between “sound”, drums spliced and severed, 18-piece “noise” orchestras, performances that included nothing but the act of shattering glass as source sound to ones that result in broken basses and bleeding throats, etc. On “Fortune,” Wiese has assembled a trio with CHARLIE MUMMA (drums) and CORYDON RONNAU (vocals): crafting twenty-six songs of grind-core noise (like a Crossed Out playing with malfunctioning gear).
MP3 $1.99
05/24/2011
***A historic lineup featuring players from all over the Northern California musical underground. SISSY SPACEK’s core members, JOHN WIESE and CORYDON RONNAU, are joined by Mitchell Brown (Gasp, Professor Cantaloupe), George Chen (KIT), Vice Cooler (KIT), Paul Costuros (Death Sentence: Panda!, Total Shutdown), Chris Dixon (DS:P!), Tony Dryer, Jacob Heule (Etteric), Loachfillet (Caroliner), Kanoko Nishi, Gino Robair, Amanda Warner (0th, MNDR), Kim West (DS:P!), and Gerritt Wittmer (Deathroes). Since the inception of the band Sissy Spacek in 1999, the primary focus has been on small tight groups playing small tight music. The first large ensemble was a 13-Tet in Los Angeles (documented on the California Ax 4xCD set released by Helicopter) which was guided by a graphic score. The two sets (and encore) in this documentation are a collective improvisation based on simple instructions recorded at 21 Grand in Oakland, California.
MP3 $9.90
12/14/2010
SISSY SPACEK is the long running project of JOHN WIESE and CORYDON RONNAU. On Dasg, their second release for Gilgongo following the Fortune b/w The Eyes Of Men 7", they are joined by Norway's LASSE MARHAUG (JAZKAMER) and WILL STRANGELAND (TEARIST, SILVER DAGGERS). 41 tracks of scathing sound, cautiously partitioned into short bursts of truly obliterated hardcore, redefining "raw punk", and an even more destructive force than the already harsh and damaged tone of recent output. "The same vein" in a sense, but ruptured and bleeding out, heavily.
MP3 $3.99
12/14/2010
***Large ensemble Sissy Spacek recordings featuring the cream of LA. The line-up: John Wiese, Mitchell Brown, Joey Karam (The Locust), Peter Kolovos, Rick Potts (LAFMS), Damion Romero, Corydon Ronnau and Shannon Walter (16 Bitch Pile-Up). All the source recordings used for Sepsis were taken from a group improv session recorded for the Dublab radio in 2008. The recordings from each individual channel were later chopped and rearranged into audio collages by Wiese without any regard to preserving group interaction. These collages were then layered into the final pieces you here on the disc. To simplify this: the tracks feature what was played but not how they played as a group. The group communication that was broken up has been worked into another beast entirely. The results are a beautiful set of electro-acoustic works that have been freed from any of the patterns that can develop through group improvisation. These tracks are at once disorientating and alien, yet constantly engaging.
MP3 $9.90
12/14/2010
SISSY SPACEK's "Gore Jet" was recorded in Los Angeles in the summer of 1999 by JOHN WIESE (bass, drum machine) and CORYDON RONNAU (vocals).
MP3 $9.90
09/22/2009
***SISSY SPACEK’s fourth release for Misanthropic Agenda is a documentation of a duo piece developed in 2008 by CORYDON RONNAU and JOHN WIESE for breaking glass. Two performances in Los Angeles and San Francisco are included in their entirety. Hand-numbered digipack in an edition of 300.
CD $11.25
04/20/2009
MP3 $7.99
04/20/2009
***Yep SISSY SPACEK and Dual Plover, a match made in heaven. Here is the spiel "since 1999, Sissy Spacek has been one of the most difficult groups around, with a starting point of full-on blur/grindcore and an evolution to the definition of the most extreme/intense fringes of musique concrete, instantly identifiable by the handiwork of JOHN WIESE. On this, their fifth proper album, Sissy Spacek explore new territory, as always, and take turns no one could foresee into electroacoustic improv, collage, industrial, noise and heavy metal, with a line up that includes KEVIN DRUMM, KATE HALL (MIKA MIKO), SAM OTT (THE FUCKING ANGELS), CORYDON RONNAU, Wiese, and C. SPENCER YEH (BURNING STAR CORE). French record is their strongest and most mature yet."
CD $17.35
05/19/2008
MP3 $9.90
05/19/2008
MP3 $6.99
04/01/2008