Mammal Hands are a British band from

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. Members include Jordan Smart on

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, Nick Smart on

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

and Jesse Barrett on

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and

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Description

The band's style combines

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electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

and world music taking in influences including

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, Gétachèw Mekurya,

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and Sirishkumar Manji. All three members contribute equally to the writing process: one that favours the creation of a powerful group dynamic over individual solos. Mammal Hands have toured with GoGo Penguin; and other landmark live performances have included shows at The Roundhouse London, the main stage at Field Day Festival, La Cigale Paris, Montreal Jazz Festival, Hamburg Elb Jazz, Athens Technopolis and Unit Tokyo. They have released four critically acclaimed albums: ‘Animalia’ (2014), ‘Floa’ (2016), ‘Shadow Work' (2017) and 'Captured Spirits' (2020) and in 2021 their latest single 'Oni / Lantern'. Mammal Hands' fifth studio album, ‘Gift from the Trees’ is released 31st of March 2023, on

Gondwana Records Gondwana Records is an independent record label based in Manchester, UK. The label was founded in 2008 by Matthew Halsall to shine a light on the talent Matthew heard in the local clubs. In 2012 Gondwana Records signed the then unknown Mancheste ...

Discography

Studio albums

EP

Gallery

File:Mammal Hands - Haldern Pop Festival 2017 - Alexander Kellner - 1.jpg, Jordan Smart at the Haldern Pop Festival 2017 File:Mammal Hands - Haldern Pop Festival 2017 - Alexander Kellner - 3.jpg, Jesse Barrett at the Haldern Pop Festival 2017 File:Mammal Hands - Haldern Pop Festival 2017 - Alexander Kellner - 2.jpg, Nick Smart at Haldern Pop Festival 2017 File:Mammal Hands - Jesse Barrett (Drums and Tabla).jpg, Jesse Barrett at the DOMICIL Club,

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, Germany 2018 File:Mammal Hands - Jordan Smart (Saxophon).jpg, Jordan Smart at the DOMICIL Club,

, Germany 2018 File:Mammal Hands - Nick Smart (Piano).jpg, Nick Smart at the DOMICIL Club,

, Germany 2018 File:Mammal Hands Christuskirche Bochum 2018 - 2.jpg, Mammal Hands Christuskirche

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, Germany 2018

External links

*
Mammal Hands homepage
*
Bandcamp page
* Official '
video
'' for the track ''Boreal Forest'' in the Gondwana Records Label

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stream. * A
interview
in ''District Magazine'' from 2018.

References

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