mh.t044 - Hanging Freud - Anomalies

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Paula and Jonathan from Hangin Freud have always been faithful to myhand.thanx records since the beginning, when we release "Sunken" in 2010. So, it is with joy, pleasure and a certain pride that we release "Anomalies" today!
The follow-up of "Motherland" is an EP, which contains 4 tracks. More precisely, 2 tracks and 2 interludes. So, I like to believe it has to be listened to as a whole, as if you were reading a poem or a short story. The repetitive and tribal beats echo in our heads long after the first listening, the frontier between industrial music and natural sounds is blurred, and the voice melts into the music, thus creating an intense and intemporal (and to a certain extent, universal) message to the listener. The music is "hanginfreudian" in a most wonderful and inspiring way. But, in these dark times, in this decaying political world context, it resonates like never before. We feel the urge of communicating a message before it's too late... REFUSE...

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mh.t041 - Hanging Freud - No Body Allowed

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Après de longues années d'attente, Hanging Freud nous revient avec un magnifique EP intitulé "No Body Allowed" et qui nous prend aux tripes! Le duo de Paula et Jonathan nous propose 7 titres hypnotiques, profonds et touchants. "PWM" nous plonge sans ménagement dans l'univers si particulier de "No Body Allowed", puis "Toadboy" et "It's time" nous confirment qu'Hanging Freud est définitivement un projet sans compromis, et que depuis "Sunken", sorti en 2009, leur musique radicale n'a pas pris une ride. Chaque titre sonne comme une injonction, une prémonition, une incantation. On est forcément embarqué, et les visions s'enchaînent. "Share the love" est désormais en boucle dans nos têtes, "Well, jump in" nous réveille en pleine nuit, comme un cauchemar dans lequel nous voudrions replonger immédiatement. "Porch" (qui était apparu il y a quelques temps sur le soundcloud du groupe) nous appaise, pour finalement laisser place a "Hand drop", final absolument fabuleux, au rythme entêtant, à l'atmosphère à la fois oppressante et aérienne, et cette voix...

After long years of waiting, Hanging Freud is back with a beautiful EP entitled "No Body allowed" that hits you in the guts! Paula and Jonathan's duet offers us 7 tracks that are hypnotic, deep and moving. "PWM" makes us dive without warning into this so particular world of "No Body Allowed", then "Toadboy" and "It's time" confirm the fact that Hanging Freud is definitely an uncompromised/uncompromising project, and that since "Sunken", released in 2009, their radicale music hasn't aged at all. Each tracks sounds like an injunction, a premonition, an incantation. We are taken away, and visions multiply. "Share the love" is now a loop in our heads, "Well, jump in" wakes us up in the middle of the night, like a nightmare in which we wish to dive back immediately. "Porch" (which surfaced some time ago on the band's soundcloud) calms us down, to finally give birth to "Hand drop", an absolutely marvellous finale, with an uplifting rhythm, an oppressing and aerial mood, and this voice...

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Recorded and mixed in 2015
credits:

Paula - Songwriting, lyrics, voice, yamaha keyboard, piano, tape recorder, sampling, mixing
Jonathan - Electronics, production, arrangements

mh.t039 - We Are All Slaves - You Must Be Stuck Into Some Complications

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We Are All Slaves is a really cool project by Filip Stojiljkovic, a Serbian experimental artist. He started this noise/dark/ambient project at the age of 17, using a laptop, toys a singstar microphone, making every unsettling noise he could. "Chaos" and "mayhem"are words he likes to use when talking about WAAS... Here, at myhand.thanx records, we have been struck by the nerve of this guy! the opening title "Fucked Up and Boring" is insane, raw and as noisy as can be! The following tracks are just like knives stabbing your ears, sometimes violently, some other times slowly... It's at the same time straightforward and insidious, and always uncompromising. The closing track is a 10-minute ode to Sylvia Likens, who died a painful death in the 60's. Knowing the facts, the track takes a deeper dimension, totally disturbing and also moving. WAAS is radical, experimental and paradoxical. Download it, experience it.

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mh.t038 - Borgesss - Terrified of Everything

This is the kind of news we really love at myhand! Borgesss, aka Paula Borges, aka "Hell, yeah! Paula from Hangin Freud!", offers us a delightful lo-fi EP entitled "Terrified of Everything." Four absolutely great tracks, demo-style, recorded on a 4-track cassette recorder. "Snake" opens the EP, insidiously crawling into our head, and soon, the venom invades us, and we're hooked!
"Born Again" is breathtaking, a melodious loop that leaves you speechless... but not for a long time, because the "Queen" emerges suddenly, rock'n'rolling desperately, playing a saturated guitar, haunting us with her beautiful but scary voice. "We spit" closes the EP like a nightmare we don't want to be over, we're terrified, but we have never felt so good...

All songs written by P. Borges

Extracted from 4 track tape recordings

Guitar, voice, bass, percussion: P. Borges

Bass on "Born Again": J. Skinner

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C'est tout à fait le genre de nouvelle que l'on adore chez myhand! Borgess, aka Paula Borges, aka "Oh oui! C'est Paula de Hangin Freud!", nous offre ce délicieux EP lo-fi intitulé "Terrified of Everything." Il s'agit de quatre titres absolument superbes, sous forme de démos, enregistrés sur un 4 pistes cassette. "Snake" ouvre l'EP, rampant insidieusement dans notre tête, et rapidement, le venin nous envahit, et nous sommes accros! "Born again" est à couper le souffle, une boucle mélodieuse qui vous laisse bouche bée... mais pour un bref instant, car soudain, la "Queen" surgit, dans un rock désespéré, jouant une guitare saturée, nous hantant de sa belle et effrayante voix. "We spit" referme le maxi comme un cauchemar que l'on ne veut pas quitter, nous sommes terrifiés, mais nous ne nous sommes jamais sentis aussi bien...

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mh.t037 - DRUNkENC - RED

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DRUNkENC est de retour! 3 ans après "Whisper" (toujours disponible ICI), Cécile nous livre sept titres magnifiques dans un mini-album intitulé "RED". Une fois de plus, elle nous emmène loin, très loin, mais on n'est jamais perdu car DRUNkENC nous rappelle toujours notre chemin, tantôt avec une ligne de basse hypnotique ("Melody in my ears") comme elle seule en a le secret, tantôt avec une distortion noisy ("Red") qui évoque des références bien ancrées dans nos mémoires. On retrouve Polly Jean, on se remémore les débuts de Hole, les chuchotements de Kim Gordon, mais surtout cette atmosphère parfois brûlante puis glaçante... Certains titres sonnent comme une incantation ("My trouble"), une complainte ("Wanna be alone") voire une injonction ("Lovers of the past")... C'est certainement l'une des claques de cette année 2015!
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DRUNkENC is back! 3 years after "Whisper" (which is still available HERE), Cécile releases 7 magnificent tracks in a mini-album entitled "RED". Once again, she takes us far, far away, but we never fell lost because DRUNkENC always reminds us the way, either with a hypnotical bass line ("Melody in my ears") of which only she has the secret, or with a noisy feedback ("Red") that brings back to mind some references fixed in our memories. We bump into Polly Jean, remember Hole's first songs, Kim Gordon's whispering, but above all, we find this weird atmosphere, burning and chilling... Some tracks sound like an incantation ("My trouble"), a lament ("Wanna be alone") or even an injunction ("Lovers of the past")... A must listen for 2015!
Support DRUNkENC on her bandcamp page!

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mh.t028 - ThOmas.W - the to.w years

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 En 1999, ThOmas.W décide de publier ses créations solo sous forme de CD-r qui seront distribués de façon assez aléatoire, au rythme des rencontres faites et des lieux visités. Jusqu'en 2005, plusieurs albums / EP seront réalisés, sous le pseudonyme "to.w". Voici 11 titres retraçant la chronologie de ces créations, ainsi que l'évolution musicale de ThOmas.W, jusqu'au EP "How to Contain Violence", qui annonce sans équivoque les albums suivants sortis sous le nom de "ThOmas.W".
 Cette compilation contient une version inédite live de "a story..." enregistrée en 2003 à Nancy avec à la voix .kbfrau, qui a dernièrement rejoint ThOmas.W sur le morceau "Peace" de son dernier EP (mh.t025).

In 1999, ThOmas.W decided to release his solo creations on CD-rs which would be given away depending on the people he would meet and the places he would visit. Until 2005, some albums / EP will be published under the name of "to.w". 11 tracks that will tell you more about the chronology and the musical evolution of ThOmas.W, until the release of "How to Contain Violence", which utterly announces the next albums released under the name of "ThOmas.W". This compilation contains a never-released live version of "a story..." recorded in 2003 in Nancy, with a voice performance by .kbfrau, who has lately joined ThOmas.W on "Peace" from his last EP (mh.t025).

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mh.t025 - ThOmas.W - Dancing Troubles Away EP

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Plus d'un an après "Memories of a Dog" ThOmas.W revient avec un EP à double visage : 5 nouveaux morceaux à écouter indépendamment, ou bien sous forme d'un long collage de 27 minutes. Ces deux versions sont présentes dans le fichier téléchargeable gratuitement, et le seront également dans la version CD-r à paraître prochainement. L'auditeur peut alors moduler / modifier / personnaliser son écoute de "Dancing Troubles Away"! L'idée est finalement assez fortuite selon Thomas : "Les 5 morceaux ont été composés dans un ordre différent de celui proposé, et ce n'est qu'en écrivant les textes que la notion de chronologie m'est apparue. Une histoire qui se tient en 5 parties, comparables au déroulement d'une vie, à l'évolution du sentiment amoureux, aux étapes d'une révolte, le tout lié à la danse comme exutoire, comme moyen d'exacerber les sensations et les passions. Un ordre s'est alors imposé, et les transitions improvisées sont venues naturellement."
La version "collage" est en fait une boucle ("loop" caractérisant la musique de ThOmas.W), mais sûrement pas un cercle parfait, plutôt un chemin sinueux et chaotique dont on ne sort jamais. L'intro donne le ton, avec la voix d'Adrienne Rich s'interrogeant : "What kind of beast would turn its life into words?" et le "performer" devient alors un animal mû par son instinct, un poête bestial dont les sons / les mots raconte l'histoire de tous.

More than a year after "Memories of a Dog" ThOmas.W is back with a double-face EP : 5 new tracks to listen to separately, or as a long 27-minute collage. These two versions are included in the file as a free download, and will also be on the forthcoming CD-r version. Thus, the listener can modulate / modify / personalize his listening of "Dancing Troubles Away"! The idea came naturally, incidentally according to ThOmas.W : "The 5 tracks were composed in a different order as the one on the EP, and when I wrote the texts, the idea of a chronology came to me. A story made of 5 parts, like the progress of a life, the evolution of a love feeling, the stages of a revolution, all this linked to the notion of dancing as an outlet, as a way of intensifying sensations and passions. Then the order came, and the improvised transitions came naturally."
The "collage" version is actually a loop (emblematic of ThOmas.W's music), but it's certainly not a perfect circle, rather a sinuous and chaotic path from which you never escape. The intro sets the pace, with the voice of Adrienne Rich, questioning : "What kind of beast would turn its life into words?" and thus the "performer" becomes an animal driven by its instinct, a beastly poet whose sounds / words tell everyone's story.

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mh.t024 - Jeremy Gluck/Dave Fuglewicz/Noise Research - Visual EP

Here is a super great Xmas present for myhand.thanx records! We are so proud to count Jeremy Gluck as an mh.t artist! "Visual" is a collaboration with Dave Fuglewicz (who took part in the "Manifesto" EP, released last summer), and Noise Research (an experimental noise artist from the UK, see link below!).

"Sleepy Awake" is the central piece of this 3-track EP : a 16-minute experience that catches the ear and mind. The two mixes of "Visual" complete the EP with smartness. "Visual" EP is a clever mix of noise, electronics, collage and spoken word that is really worth discovering. Play it loud, and let yourself go!

Voici un superbe cadeau de Noël pour myhand.thanx records! Nous sommes vraiment fier de compter Jeremy Gluck parmi les artists mh.t! "Visual"est une collaboration avec Dave Fuglewicz (qui a participé à "Manifesto", publié l'été dernier) et Noise Research (un artiste experimental britannique, voir le lien plus bas!).
"Sleepy Awake" est la pièce centrale ce 3 titres : une expérience de 16 minutes qui attise l'oreille et l'esprit. Les deux mixes de "Visual" complètent brillamment cet EP. "Visual" EP est un savant mélange de noise, d'électronique, de collage et de spoken word qu'il faut absolument découvrir. Montez le volume, et laissez-vous aller!

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NOTES :

"Visual" is the second major collaboration between Noise Research (UK), Dave Fuglewicz (USA)  and Jeremy Gluck (UK).

Visual (Vocal Mix): Words, vocals: Jeremy Gluck, sounds: Noise Research, sounds, production & mix: Dave Fuglewicz

Visual (Extended Instrumental Mix): Inspiration: Jeremy Gluck, sounds: Noise Research, sounds, production & mix: Dave Fuglewicz

Visual (Sleepy Awake Mix): sounds: Noise Research and Dave Fuglewicz, voice and words: Jeremy Gluck; mix: Noise Research

Noise Research http://noiseresearch.tumblr.com/

Dave Fuglewicz www.davefuglewicz.com/

Jeremy Gluck http://www.myspace.com/jsgluck

mh.t023 - Jeremy Gluck and Dave Fuglewicz - Manifesto (EP)

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Jeremy Gluck revient sur myhand.thanx avec un nouvel EP, "Manifesto" en collaboration avec Dave Fuglewicz. Les 3 mixes présents témoignent d'un travail du son radical, sans compromis. Sur sa collaboration avec Dave Fuglewicz, voici ce que Jeremy écrit (l'occasion aussi de (re)découvrir Tapegerm) :

Jeremy Gluck is back on myhand.thanx with a new EP, "Manifesto" in collaboration with Dave Fuglewicz. The 3 mixes consist in a radical, uncompromised work on sound. About his collaboration with Dave Fuglewicz, here is what Jeremy writes (at the same time, discover Tapegerm!) :

Dave Fuglewicz's Manifesto: Modesty and Mastery

I don't recall when exactly I joined Tapegerm, a loop collective now past its ten anniversary. It was about that time I was neck deep in mixing 'Div Joyvision', the album I made for and with Toronto spoken word ace Michael Dent and which comprised in the end mixes made from material provided by Tapegerm.

Having plundered Tapegerm for everything I needed, I turned finally to putting something back, in the form of spoken word recordings – grainy at best thanks to my poor equipment and technique – I archived and sent up to be shared amongst the many mixers.

The standard of work at Tapegerm is always high; artists such as Mental Anguish, Omnitechnomatrix and others cut the mustard with a machete. But it was one mix in particular that one day captivated me. “Sleep On the Edge”, a dispeptic reflection in what-for? Time, created by Dave Fuglewicz. Amidst the quality out of control across the 'germ, Atlanta-based boffin Dave's mix stood out, a raw, tilted and highly intuitive reading of my slanted, surly text.

So began years of collaboration, mix upon mix, bringing us lately to a trilogy, Saneworld, and a set of radical sound adventures with Dave in complete control: Manifesto. Working with Dave is a joy. As is the case with numbers of online electronica creators, Dave is mostly unsung but revered and treasured by a handful of fellow artists and aware aficionados. I can take little credit for the work we do together; my contribution is a trigger, but Dave does ninety per cent of the hard thinking and hard work, and without him I would not have done some of the most accomplished music of my zigzag career. Vision and precision ever his watchwords, meticulous in execution and with an empathy for my words that has unfolded with a natural and extraordinary ease, Dave's making of Manifesto is yet more evidence of a great artist lost in (cyber)space. Find him here now.


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