Prolific sonic manipulator Jeph Jerman has been working in experimental recordings since at least 1987 and has had more releases than I'd even care to count. Initially recording and performing under the name Hands To, most of his early soundwork was sampler and tape loop based, though over the course of ten years it evolved into using environmental recordings with very little to no manipulation or electronic processing. Jerman has been involved in over 20 collaborative projects from Animist Motors to Warsaw (1921) so if you're into experimental/noise, there's a good chance you'll run into his works sooner or later.

'Flapndr' was recorded 2019-2021 in and around Cottonwood AZ with assistance from Steve Jansen. The album consists of four tracks in 41 minutes - "Ecness" (6:33); "Firight" (5:33); "Flapndr" (8:26); and "Nobsish" (20:32). The theme here seems to be environmental industrial noise with the sonics of the pieces being rather different throughout. "Ecness" sounds like a lo-fi recording made by a stowaway in an airplane cargo hold. "Firight" sounds the most electronically industrial, perhaps recorded in a manufacturing plant that makes things you don't even want to know about. Title track "Flapndr" has mechanical elements as well as crunching, creaking, smacking and crushing sounds, making me think of some sort of recycling plant. Final track "Nobsish" sounds like sorting through junk- glass bottles, broken instruments, tin cans, scrap, bits of metal, ceramics, etc., with clinks, plinks, clunks, clanks, and nearly every other descriptive onomatopoeiatic word you could muster. This is occasionally punctuated by a fragment of human utterance. 20+ minutes is a long time for this, and when it seemed like they got tangled up in the rusty old bedsprings, my patience wore a bit thin. If you're looking for and "authentic environmental industrial noise" trip though, 'Flapndr' could be your ticket.