Big Scenic Nowhere Finish New Album The WayDown
Comprised of Yawning Man‘s Gary Arce (also Ten East, Zun, Yawning Sons, etc.) and Bill Stinson (also Zun, Dark Tooth Encounter, Ten East, etc.), Fu Manchu‘s Bob Balch (also Sun and Sail Club, ex-Minotaur, etc.), and Mos Generator‘s Tony Reed (also Hot Spring Water, Constance Tomb, solo work, etc.), the real miracle here is that Big Scenic Nowhere manages to exist on its members’ respective calendars at all. I seem to recall when I interviewed Balch for their last record, earliest-2022’s The Long Morrow (review here), he said that all the recording they’d done to-date was pulled and edited from a single session — Fall 2018, maybe? — and that there was still more, so it may be that the forthcoming The WayDown will be pulled and constructed from those same jams, but I’ve got zero to go on for that beyond my own half-remembered suppositions. If only there was some place where all that kind of stuff was written down. A blog, maybe. Alas.
In any case, word of the next Big Scenic Nowhere was dropped, along with a clip of a yet-unheard song, so that’s a bonus. I’d have to imagine work on editing down and adding structured verses and choruses, which Balch was doing in his own studio, was somewhat stifled by the significant amount of touring Fu Manchu have done in the last year-plus, but at the same time, it’s worth noting that Arce, Balch and Stinson — along with Yawning Man bassist Billy Cordell — also have the collaboration Yawning Balch releasing its first album, Volume One, on July 7 through Heavy Psych Sounds, so there’s now a whole other, markedly jammier, manifestation of the pairing of the two guitarists, who complement each other in style as well as tone.
The post was quick and if you’re curious, yes it’s The WayDown instead of The Way Down. I asked because, hey, typos happen. In any case, here’s what went out:
The new BIG SCENIC NOWHERE record is finished! It’s named “The WayDown.” More details soon. Here is a small clip. @bigscenicnowhere @yawningmanofficial @mos_generator @fumanchuband
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