Sebastian Tomb/Angel Brügger — The Two Most Powerful Warriors Are Patience and Ti

The Two Most Powerful Warriors Are Patience and Time is a wall noise split. It brings together Berlin’s Sebastian Tomb, and North Carolina’s Angel Brügger- both parties offer up a twenty-minute ‘wall’, each of these being decidedly battering and grey in their intent.

This split, like much of today's wall noise output, is digitally only release. For the cover, we have an old monochrome photo of two women wearing dress suits; the woman in the front of the picture is reading a small booklet- not quite sure where this is from, though it fits the retro photo feel of a lot of Sebastian Tomb's releases.

So first up, we have Sebastian Tomb’s track “Patience”. The ‘wall’ here brings together a fairly simple blend of rapidly billowing low-end, constantly rattling static-bound mids, and maybe one or two wayward crisp ‘n’ crunching subtones.  It certainly is a battering, unrelenting, and straight ‘wall’, and not what you normally expect from this project, whose work often sits in the more progressive & ambient edged side of walled noise. At times, it does feel like the low end is slightly rising & falling, and that the rattling grain is changing, possibly with some fading/ subtle ambient drifting going on here. However, I’m not entirely sure of any of these.

Next, we of course have the Angel Brügger track “Time”.  Here we find a slightly chugging/ yet muffled low-end churn, which is topped with a constant clattering flow. I’m getting the vibe of walking through a corrugated plastic ceiling corridor- as rain lashes & pelts down.  At times, I’m sure I can make out darts of the snapping tone- but I’m unsure if these are really there or not, and may be just be a trick of the ‘wall’.  This is my first taster of Angel Brügger's work, and I’d say it’s fine, for bleak & unrelenting walling. I certainly appreciate/ enjoy the chugging/ muffled vibe of the low end, though the rest of the tracks make up for it fairly standard.

If you enjoy grey and battering wall-craft, The Two Most Powerful Warriors Are Patience and Time will appeal, with both tracks fitting well together for a battering/ hopeless forty-minute split. To check it out for yourself