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Hands[progrock]
Symphonic Prog • United States



A short-lived symphonic American band from Texas whose sound has been compared to GENTLE GIANT, JETHRO TULL, and HAPPY THE MAN, as well as the inevitable nods to early KANSAS, HANDS were actually
an off-shoot of the even more obscure rock/fusion project PRISM. 

The band used a wide variety of orchestral instruments including strings and woodwinds, and their songs were characterized by long instrumental passages and mellow, spacey vocals, although much 
like KANSAS the band would often include blues-influenced music such as JOHNNY WINTERS and ALLMAN BROTHERS covers in their live shows. Like many progressive American bands of the latter seventies, 
HANDS toured extensively and managed to release a minor-label studio album, but failed to garner much attention and quietly disbanded as the decade drew to a close. 

Shroom Records released a collection of the band's early recordings on CD in 1996 which was critically acclaimed but made little commercial impact. The label also re-released the band's lone studio 
album from 1977 though, which did manage to find a small audience in the Midwest. On the strength of this re-release the band reformed with small lineup changes and began touring, eventually releasing 
a studio album of new material in 2001 ("Twenty Five Winters"). The band continues to perform today, and as of the fall of 2006 were wrapping up production on a third studio album 
tentatively named "Strangelet". 

HANDS deserve recognition in the Archives due to their highly recognizable prog folk sound in the vein of so many seventies American bands, and their revival of that sound with a new lineup in 
the twenty-first century.



Palm Mystery 1998 flac 
Twenty Five Winters 2002 mp3 320 
Strangelet 2008 flac
Caviar Bobsled 2015 mp3 320


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