This week sees the release of Afro Noise I, the debut album proper from Cut Hands.

Cut Hands is a solo project of William Bennett (pictured), the guiding force behind the recently rested – but far from retired – Whitehouse. Bennett will always be known first and foremost for the scummy, excoriating power electronics sound that has been Whitehouse’s bread and butter since the late 1970s, but he’s always explored his own highly idiosyncratic path through music – a truth to which anyone who’s seen him spin italo and hi-NRG records as DJ Bennetti will vigorously attest. Cut Hands finds Bennett indulging his love of the African (particularly Ghanaian and Congolese) percussion that he has avidly collected over the years; its sound is an aggressive but dizzyingly psychedelic composite of machine and acoustic vaudou rhythm, carefully constructed at his home studio over the course of several years.

The CD, mastered by Denis Blackham, features a 16-page booklet with special artwork and texts by Bennett and Mimsy Debois. Bennett has said that he’s planning a special limited vinyl edition of the album for a later date, but there are no other details at this stage. Visit Bennett’s Afro Noise blog here for more info.

Tracklist:
Welcome To The Feast Of Trumpets
Stabbers Conspiracy
Rain Washes Over Chaff
Nzambi Ia Lufua
Who No Know Go Knows
++++ (Four Crosses)
Backlash
Shut Up And Bleed
Munkisi Munkondi
Impassion
Ezili Freda
Bia Mintatu
Rain Washes Over Every Thing