## Hands in Our Names - Artist(s): [[Karima Walker]] - Release Year: [[2017]] - Ostensible or actual genres: [[experimental]], [[drone]], [[field recordings]], [[folk]], [[psych folk]],[[psychedelic]] Notes: #album #👍 #newbrain %% ## Tracks: | No. | Title | Featuring | Notes | | --- | ----- | --------- | ----- | | | | | | ## Bandcamp Copy %% From the Bandcamp page: > Hands in Our Names, the first full-length album from Tucson, Arizona experimental musician Karima Walker, is a hypnotizing patchwork of drone, folk, psychedelia, field recordings and tape loops. Equal parts gorgeous and abrasive, comforting and confounding, Hands in Our Names builds abstract song-collages from disparate sonic components, isolating and harmonizing a wild array of instruments and textures across the span of twelve interwoven tracks. Hands in Our Names is dizzyingly abstract at moments, but taken as a whole, the album moves like a half-remembered travelogue, with Walker's understated, measured and beautiful singing voice acting as a compassionate tour guide through a wrecked landscape. > The Orindal edition of Hands in Our Names is a remixed, resequenced and remastered version of a self-released 2016 cassette that went out of print almost immediately, but not before grabbing the attention of discerning music blogs like Yab Yum West, Raised by Gypsies and Wake the Deaf, who named Hands in Our Names one of their favorite albums of 2016. > "Hands in Our Names sees Karima Walker reconstruct an array of varied elements into something larger and more meaningful than they could ever be alone. Field recordings from her present... more credits released March 24, 2017 > Hands in Our Names was written & arranged by Karima Walker > Singing, etc - Karima Walker > Trombone - Adam Frumhoff > Drums - Dominic Armstrong