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Jaw Surgery: Twelve Spines Facing God (Love Earth Music)

Operating under the Jaw Surgery moniker, Filipino noise artist Chester Masangya constructs a ritualized power-electronics work driven by distortion, breath, and deliberate restraint, where extended techniques, hostile pressure, and ceremonial pacing collide in a stark, uncompromising exploration of spiritual collapse, sonic violence, and meditative endurance at the outer limits of noise.
 

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Label: Love Earth Music
Catalog ID: LEM-391
Squidco Product Code: 37084

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
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Chester Masangya is a Filipino noise and power-electronics artist whose work operates at the intersection of ritual, pressure, and controlled collapse. Drawing on Japanese minimalism, Southeast Asian rawness, and a deeply personal cosmology shaped by decay, invocation, and spiritual tension, Masangya constructs sound as ceremony, using distortion, breath, and restraint to generate environments that oscillate between meditative austerity and hostile saturation.

Working under multiple project names — most notably Jaw Surgery, but also Aetheric Wound, Coalminer, and Fossa Magna — Masangya treats each outlet as a distinct architectural space within a unified practice. Jaw Surgery functions as the central axis of his work, presenting performances structured like rites, marked by sparse physical gesture, rupturing dynamics, and an intentional embrace of spiritual violence. Aetheric Wound extends this approach into collaborative, trance-oriented ritual forms, while Coalminer channels industrial trauma and post-collapse atmospherics into militant, pressure-laden sound. With Fossa Magna, Masangya explores slower, tectonic pacing, rendering chaos cavernous and almost sacred through extreme restraint.

Prolific and uncompromising, Masangya operates within the outer reaches of noise and power electronics, a terrain where sonic violence and meditative immersion coexist. His work challenges listeners drawn to extreme music to move beyond genre thresholds, revealing noise not only as confrontation, but as a conduit for focus, endurance, and a stark, inward-facing form of transcendence.

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