Hands In The Dark

19/12/2023

A huge congratulations to Selvhenter for bringing home the best jazz release of 2023 at the Danish Music Awards Jazz! What’s your favourite track off Mesmerizer?

13/12/2023

Hands In The Dark, 2023.

It’s been another challenging year for championing the singular artists that we love and we’d like to thank them for trusting us to bring their work to you.

Special thanks as well to our loyal record shop partners, our distributors, the music journalists who have taken the time to write about the projects we put out and last but not least to everyone who supported our releases by simply listening or buying them.

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•Staran Wake ‘s/t’
•Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen ‘Music For Open Spaces’
•Selvhenter ‘Mesmerizer’
•Saåad ‘A Crimson Shore’
•Razen ‘Hier l’An 4000’
•Pointe du Lac ‘Les siphonophores des eaux froides et profondes de l’Arctique’

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Can’t wait to share some more amazing music with you next year!

Onito & Morgan ✌🏻🤍

08/12/2023

Pointe du Lac's « Les siphonophores des eaux froides et profondes de l'Arctique » LP is out today!

We warmly invite you to listen to the whole avant-garde, krautnica jazz expedition on your favourite streaming service and get a sublime copy of the record from any decent record dealer on this planet.

Both physical and digital are also available at source on Bandcamp.

www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/

29/11/2023

Tomorrow on LYL radio: Hands In The Dark invite Julien Lheuillier, 1/3 of Pointe du Lac, for an hour of musical exploration.

Tune in at 11am ~ www.lyl.live 📡

22/11/2023

Stream 'Un narval mâle sur 500 possède deux défenses', new track from Pointe du Lac upcoming album.

https://pointedulac.bandcamp.com/album/les-siphonophores-des-eaux-froides-et-profondes-de-larctique

Official release on 8th December. All preorders will be shipped very soon.

15/11/2023

5 pages interview with the amazing avant-garde Danish band Selvhenter in the new issue of Gonzo (circus) magazine!

‘Mesmerizer' is still available on our bandcamp page: www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mesmerizer

14/11/2023

New release out soon on Fragments Editions, the imprint run by Morgan from HITD!

In 2020, Pali Meursault and Thomas Tilly collaborated to create Radio Glaces, a fourteen-part sound collection featuring recordings of glaciers in the Alps and testimonies from people who have a close relationship with this environment: glaciologists, geomorphologists, hut wardens, mountaineers and high-mountain guides.

As a continuation of this first project, Melt* is a serie of improvised performances by the duo of sound artists, playing back the sounds and vibrations of the glaciers as they conducted a microphonic auscultation of the crevasses, rimayes and torrents of the Oisans mountain range.

The outcome of a research project that began over three years ago and is still ongoing, Melt* is based on the recording of a concert at GMEA (Albi) in early 2023, and is available as a vinyl record published by Fragment Editions. Official release on 8th December.

Preorders 👇🏼

www.fragmentseditions.bandcamp.com/album/melt-2

09/11/2023

If you happen to be in Utrecht for the always fantastic Le Guess Who? don't miss Selvhenter playing late tonight!

Selvhenter Thursday 00:50 - 01:40 Pandora - TivoliVredenburg Copenhagen-based noise free rock band Selvhenter’s music surpasses genre and instead plunges towards something much more elemental. Since coming together in 2010, drummers Jaleh Negari and Anja Jacobsen, saxophonist Sonja LaBianca, and t...

07/11/2023

It’s an immense pleasure to announce that we’ll be releasing Pointe du Lac's third LP ‘Les siphonophores des eaux froides et profondes de l’Arctique’ on 8th December.

The new album from the Frenchmen offers a deep, catchy and classy dive into Kosmische, electronica and jazz.

You can listen to two tracks via Gonzaï: https://gonzai.com/pointe-du-lac-plonge-en-eaux-glacees-pour-son-troisieme-album/

Pre-order your gorgeous copy now on Bandcamp. Only 400 units of this gem are available, don’t snooze!
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Dix ans après ses débuts chez Gonzaï Records, le projet Pointe du Lac redonne des nouvelles avec une signature chez les toujours aussi impeccables patrons de Hands in The Dark.

04/11/2023

Le nouvel album de Saåad vu par le comité d'écoute d'Indie Rock Mag!

On passe le seuil des 150 chroniques cette année avec ce nouveau Comité d'écoute, second depuis la relance du concept à la rentrée. Comme souvent, en attendant le spécial hip-hop qui suivra, la…

13/10/2023

Thanks to HearFeel for taking the time to put in words the moving listening experience that is Saåad's new album.

After a brief hiatus, Saåad returns to further speak on the language of pain and loss in the tortured "A Crimson Shore"

04/10/2023

Back on LYL radio tomorrow morning! We are pleased to invite French composer Romain Barbot aka Saåad for an hour of ambient, electronic and avant-garde music.

〰️lyl.live 📡

29/09/2023

Razen’s ‘Hier l’An 4000’ is out to the world today.

The prolific Brussels ensemble managed once again a true tour de force with this record, offering trance-like fantasy primal futuristic themed improvs of the highest standard.

Grab a copy via our bandcamp page or through many good record shops worldwide.

www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hier-lan-4000

25/09/2023

Ahead of its release this Friday, we are psyched to be sharing another mind blowing track off Razen's new album. It's the opening song of the record, a 13 minutes long trance-like hallucinatory improv that has been haunting our minds since we first listened to it.

"09​/​11​/​3998" is out on all platforms now

from the album Hier l'An 4000

22/09/2023

Saåad's gorgeous new album 'A Crimson Shore' is out today!!

The physical version of this gem is available on our bandcamp page and you can also grab a copy from a selection of quality independent record shops around the world.

Digital version is available on all platforms.

www.saaad.bandcamp.com/album/a-crimson-shore

18/09/2023

'From All The Places That I'll Never See', new track from Saåad's upcoming album.

'A Crimson Shore' is officially out on Friday but already available through some record stores and on our bandcamp page.

www.saaad.bandcamp.com/album/a-crimson-shore

12/09/2023

If you missed it, you can stream Saåad's new track 'Stay' on bandcamp and all digital platforms.

www.saaad.bandcamp.com/album/a-crimson-shore

Another excerpt will be unveiled next week. 'A Crimson Shore' is Saåad’s first studio album since 'Présence Absente' in 2018.

29/08/2023

Double the fun! We are delighted to let you know that we'll put out Razen's new LP 'Hier l'An 4000' on 29th September in a limited edition of 400 copies.

Our favourite Belgian musicians are back showcasing some of their best pieces to date. This time, they use sampled North African hand percussion as a base for their trademark devotional approach on improvisation through early music wind instruments and pre-digital keys and synths.

Discover the closing track and pre-order your copy now via bandcamp.

www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hier-lan-4000

29/08/2023

It's a pleasure and honour to announce that we'll be releasing Saåad's 'A Crimson Shore' on 22nd September. This new album is Romain Barbot's first studio LP under this moniker since 'Présence Absente' in 2018 and all we can say is that it was well worth the wait!

You can discover the mind-blowing track 'Stay' and pre-order your copy of this 100% electronic ambient gem now via our bandcamp page.

Please note that this one is a limited edition of only 400 copies on vinyl, first come first served.

www.saaad.bandcamp.com/album/a-crimson-shore

15/08/2023

New album announcements coming soon…

13/07/2023

We are taking a couple of weeks off. Please note that all orders placed between 14th and 30th July will ship early August. We also have some rather pleasant announcements lined up for when we get back.

In the meantime, get into that summer groove with 'Egerkingen walk', a live mix recorded a few weeks ago at Hands In The Dark’s HQ.

- Tracklist -
Intro - Hungarian Folk Music
Blod - Leendet Från Helvetet
Omerta - Moments in Love
ssabae - L'Archipel Fractal
MinaeMinae - Deines Standortes
Parasite Jazz - (Untitled)
Japan Blues - Everything Passes
Selvhenter - Plex
Alvin Curran - Canti E Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico
Hallelujahs - 星

on.soundcloud.com/szyu7

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12/07/2023

Chronique et écoute intégrale du nouvel album de Selvhenter sur Mowno!

Composé de quatre musiciennes danoises relativement connues de la scène free-jazz nord européenne, Selvhenter signe un troisième album expérimental mais à l'univers vaste. Chronique et écoute intégrale de 'Mesmerizer' sorti chez Hands In The Dark : https://www.mowno.com/disques/selvhenter-mesmerizer/

07/07/2023

Maria Bertel & Jaleh Negari from Selvhenter are our guests today on LYL radio.

Tune in at 5PM, Paris time ~ www.lyl.live 📡

04/07/2023

Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen 'Music For Open Spaces' is featured in The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far chart!

As we reach the middway point of 2023, we polled Quietus staff and columnists to compile the top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year

03/07/2023

You can now watch Julian Hand stunning video for the track 'Giant Desert Cats' by Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen.

From 'Music For Open Spaces' (LP)Hands In The Dark 2023___Video directed by Julian Handwww.julianhand.com

27/06/2023

Selvhenter have released a video for the track 'Plex', the hypnotic opening track of their new album 'Mesmerizer' available worldwide now.

Video directed by Joachim Hamou_____From Selvhenter's new album 'Mesmerizer', out on 23 June 2023www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mesmerizer

23/06/2023

'Selvhenter are both the vital fluid and the imagination, and the effects of their genre-defying jams are medical grade'.

Selvhenter's Mesmerizer is out today and is named 'Album of the week' on The Quietus!

www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mesmerizer

On Selvhenter's latest, the group moves like an off-kilter communal organism connected by energy, flowing freely from one idea to the next, says Bernie Brooks

21/06/2023

Buy a copy of Selvhenter's new LP between now and Friday 30th June to enter a draw and the chance to win a copy of the next couple -yet unannounced- HITD releases for the year!

www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mesmerizer

20/06/2023

Stream Selvhenter’s new album “Mesmerizer” in its entirety ahead of its official release this Friday!

Photo by Mads Fisker Striated songlines form beneath cloud waves as an invitation into some type of new, ethereal plane. SELVHENTER is the Danish quartet of drummers Jaleh Negari and Anja Jacobsen,…

17/06/2023

Lovely review of Selvhenter's new album on Salt peanuts: https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/selvhenter

The record is out next week, grab your copy here: www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mesmerizer

07/06/2023

French studio SUPER BANCO just released 3 collages made by HITD co-founder Morgan.
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'how the world unfolds'
154 / 155 / 156

A3 risograph prints
Munken paper 150gr
Edition of 40 copies
Hand numbered & signed
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A few copies are available here: www.fragmentseditions.bigcartel.com

06/06/2023

Selvhenter has dropped a new banger ahead of the release of their album 'Mesmerizer’. Listen to 'Connoisseur' on Bandcamp or any streaming platforms…

www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/connoisseur

06/06/2023

Two new tracks from forthcoming Selvhenter's album 'Mesmerizer' are out today: 'Tre Stemmer' and 'Connoisseur'. Watch the beautiful video for 'Tre Stemmer', directed by Brenna Murphy.

Video directed by Brenna Murphy_____From Selvhenter upcoming album 'Mesmerizer', out on 23 June 2023www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mesmerizer

05/06/2023

Tomorrow...

02/06/2023

A track from Selvhenter's upcoming album is featured on The Wire's latest weekly show on Resonance FM.

The 1 June edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Klein, The Plastic People Of The Universe, Phoenix Jig, Amy Cutler, Selvhenter, and more

31/05/2023

Music For Open Spaces album celebration Café OTO was just wonderful! Thanks to everyone who came to this very special event…

And of course, thanks to Baba Yaga's Hut, Agathe Max, Andrew Bunsell, Ross Adams, Julian Hand & Marta Salogni 🤍

For those who missed the record, it’s now available through Boomkat.com.

https://boomkat.com/products/music-for-open-spaces

23/05/2023

Marta Salogni spoke to Pitchfork about her career, her approach to mixing and the journey leading to the release of Music For Open Spaces.

Using analog tape machines and a keen sense of empathy, the London-based studio whiz has helped Björk, Bon Iver, Depeche Mode, and others zero in on the sounds—and feelings—they’re searching for. Her own new album exposes her emotional core.

16/05/2023

We are delighted to announce that we will be releasing Selvhenter’s new album ‘Mesmerizer’ on 23rd June.

We’ve been long time fans of the music of this amazing avant-garde Danish band, which mixes improvised trance-like polyrhythms, acoustic and electronic minimal patterns and heavy sonorities. It’s an honour and privilege to be trusted to bring you their first studio album in nearly a decade.

You can discover the track ‘Anker’ on all streaming platforms and pre-order a copy of the record via our bandcamp page.
https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mesmerizer

Photo by Mads Fisker

11/05/2023

Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen's "Music For Open Spaces" is out today.

This gorgeous and very special record is sold out in our shop but there are still a fair few copies available from a number of quality independent record shops.

https://martasalogni.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-open-spaces