The sheer noise and grinding metallic clangs featured on these 11 pieces can be an earful; going to the farthest edges of all that’s come before, these are perhaps some of the heaviest and most fractured tunes we’ve heard from the Arizonian.
An unexpected, powerful, and erratic collection
Experimenting with construction sounds from several job-sites, Aelk Minsur navigates through mechanized soundscapes, a nod to his profession as an industrial electrician, and the energy found on site during big cable pulls. The sheer noise and grinding metallic clangs featured on these 11 pieces can be an earful; going to the farthest edges of all that’s come before, these are perhaps some of the heaviest and most fractured tunes we’ve heard from the Arizonian.
Harsh field recordings smashed together into bite size audio nuggets around the 1 to 2-minute mark, “Ox” finally provides a buried rhythm we can almost grasp; its dense electrical fields are sandblasted and mind-numbing—there’s a sense of organized chaos we can digest. “Journeyman” somehow finds its way through the onslaught; at only 1:49, it captures raw industrial landscapes, strangely captivating sonic sludge, and begins to flow midway until its eventual breakdown. A mix of break/grind-core, metal, industrial, and a smattering of field recordings, closing piece “Full Pull” brings it all together in a mere 150 seconds and encapsulates all that’s transpired. An unexpected, powerful, and erratic collection from a noise master.
12 Hands and a Rope is available on Bandcamp.
