BOOKING OFFER: JOHN WIESE

Dear all,

I'm booking some dates for John Wiese in partnership with Lee Tusk.
JOHN WISE is available between 24th and 26th March 2012.

Please read this review and also click on:

http://soundcloud.com/johnwiese

Out of all of the American noisemakers, California's John Wiese is among
my absolute favourites. Although like many of his peers his release
schedule is almost impossible to follow, with tapes, cdrs and limited
vinyl coming faster than Ron Jeremy's teenage understudy, he defined the
genre with the seminal 'Soft Punk'. Taking fragments of punk and hardcore
records, he pieced together an album which showed why American noise
differed from European noise (and Japanese noise for that matter) and to
these (battered) ears remains unmatched in the genre. Since then he's been
touring incessantly and anyone lucky enough to have caught him live will
know what I mean when I say his sets have to be experienced in the flesh.
'Circle Snare' was recorded on his January 2008 Scandinavian tour, a tour
I was lucky enough to catch at least a glimpse of, and this disc goes some
way to representing the visceral experience of the shows. Taking his
trademark Max/MSP concrete experimentation and throwing it up against
subtle drones, the album starts quietly, but before long we're dragged
kicking and screaming into deftly separated ear-pummelling noise. This
isn't quite the kind of amplifier destruction you might expect from Wolf
Eyes or their Mid-West set however; there is something more technical and
almost more academic about Wiese's knife-like processes. On stumbling out
of the Oslo venue where I witnessed this set performed, I remarked that he
was the "Autechre of noise" and I'll stand by that comment. John Wiese
makes noise that sounds like everything is in a specific place for a
specific reason - something rare and beautiful. It might be punk, but this
punk can play his instrument better than most. Startlingly good.

I hope to hear from you asap.

Regards.

Alain

Some Noise asbl
C/O Alain Bolle
PO BOX 43
1050 Brussels 5
Belgium
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