Description
//Shelter Press//
£31.99 – 2xLP
Collectively transformed into a series a deeply intimate and delicate gestures of musique concrète, ‘Entrance’ radically repositions the possibilities presented by group improvisation outside of time and place.
Where historical gestures of musique concrète 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 concrète 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.
Tracklisting:
- Web of Unfolding Appearance (09:53)
- Figure of Reflected Light (17:46)
- Trancher and the Inheritors (17:51)
- True Dimension (From the Opaque-Spike) (16:14)
