The Hand to Man Band is an American

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experimental music group formed in 2010. Their music has been described as spanning "psychotropic jazz to konked-out funk to skronked-out dirges to alien transmissions to plaintive nocturnal pleas."

History

Nicholas Taplin, owner of Post-Consumer Records, invited Thollem McDonas to

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to record for him. McDonas invited

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to join and Dieterich himself invited Tim Barnes. McDonas then asked Mike Watt and the group began improvising. The initial plan was to perform some gigs after recording but Watt's commitments to

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prevented his joining them on the road. The album, ''You Are Always On Our Minds'', wouldn't be released until 2012. The title came from a

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Watt once received.

Discography

*''You Are Always On Our Minds'' (2012)

References

External links

The Hand to Man Band
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