DAMBALLAH 58

new Cut Hands 12" Damballah 58 on Blackest Ever Black
late October 2013 release, preorders now taken

track listing:
A1 - Damballah 58
B1 - Mamba Muntu
B2 - Belladonna Theme
B3 - Immersion

Cut Hands live
September 14th 2013 : Odense, Denmark Phono Festival
September 20th 2013 : Tilburg, Netherlands Incubate Festival
September 21st 2013 : Athens, Greece
September 26th 2013 : Leeds, UK
September 27th 2013 : Brussels, Belgium Bozar/BEB Showcase
October 19th 2013 : Barcelona, Spain LEM Festival
October 25th 2013 : Graz, Austria Elevate Festival
November 22nd 2013 : Bristol, UK

DJ Benetti
September 22nd 2013 : Athens, Greec
October 11th 2013 : Vittorio Veneto, Italy Coda Lunga
October 18th 2013 : Glasgow, UK Nice N Sleazy

more details soon and other shows still to be announced!

also still available 
Madwoman 12" single ($18 Europe - $24 ROW) last 1st ed. copies

Black Mamba 12" single ($18 Europe - $24 ROW) 5 copies left

Black Mamba CD ($18 Europe - $20 ROW) free exclusive art cards
Afro Noise I CD ($18 Europe - $20 ROW)

Cut Hands t-shirts and original Mimsy DeBlois paintings

ALBUM NOTES + UPDATES

CUT HANDS : BLACK MAMBA CD - now available! 
direct orders include 2x exclusive art postcards (see below)

CD includes beautiful 16pp booklet featuring text and images by vévé artist Mimsy DeBlois
catalogue number: VFSL102
distributed by Cargo Records UK

TRACKLISTING WITH NOTES:

1) Witness The Spread Of The Dream - if you were at the Tate Modern event in London a couple of years ago, you may recognise an Extralinguistic Sequencing extract here
2) Black Mamba - this is a slightly different version from the Blackest Ever Black 12" single release
3) Krokodilo - version with percussion, originally commissioned for the Siberia: Krokodil Tears documentary film
4) Nzambi Ia Ngonde - music included in Reincarnated, Snoop Dogg's recent documentary movie set in Jamaica
5) No Spare No Soul - beware of this new direction!
6) El Palo Mayombe - also included in Reincarnated, you can hear some in the trailer
7) Kongo - this is an old track I'd been working on for a couple of years, finally got it how I wanted it
8) Brown-Brown - featured in last year's Japanese CD EP
9) 54 Needles - the title here shall have to remain a dark secret
10) Nzambi Ia Muini - another nzambi eulogy, the third; I have a dream of one day making an entire record of these pieces
11) Erzulie D'en Tort - Ezili Freda's rival
12) Nine-Night - inspired by life and death in Jamaica

Cut Hands official T-shirts
Cut Hands original vévé artwork

Cut Hands forthcoming shows:
27th October : NK (Berlin, Germany) + Florian Hecker, Marcus Schmickler 
29th December : Dublin, Ireland
January 2013 : Edinburgh, UK
January 26th 2013 : Stockholm, Sweden
February 2013 : Nantes, France

Cut Hands Black Mamba CD ($18.99) now shipping, free exclusive art postcards

Cut Hands Black Mamba 12" single ($19.99) limited copies

Cut Hands Afro Noise Japanese EP CD ($17.99) SOLD OUT :-(
Cut Hands Afro Noise I CD ($18.99)
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 1 LP ($29.99) SOLD OUT :-(
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 2 LP ($29.99) final copies

all prices in US$ include worlwide airmail shipping
PayPal to: susanlawly@gmail.com

BLACK MAMBA ALBUM TRACK LISTING

CUT HANDS : BLACK MAMBA 

(album track listing)

Witness The Spread Of The Dream
Black Mamba
Krokodilo
Nzambi Ia Ngonde
No Spare No Soul
El Palo Mayombe
Kongo
Brown-Brown
54 Needles
Nzambi Ia Muini
Erzulie D'en Tort
Nine-Night

CUT HANDS UPDATE

Cut Hands Black Mamba 12" single ($19.99) limited copies

Cut Hands Afro Noise Japanese EP CD ($17.99) SOLD OUT
Cut Hands Afro Noise I CD ($18.99)
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 1 LP ($29.99) final copies
Cut Hands Afro Noise I Volume 2 LP ($29.99) limited copies

all prices in US$ include worlwide airmail shipping
PayPal to: susanlawly@gmail.com

Cut Hands official T-shirts
Cut Hands vévé artwork

Cut Hands forthcoming shows
22th September : Elbo Room (San Francisco, USA) + Burmese, + more
26th September : Plan B (Portland OR, USA) + Daniel Menche, + more
27th September : Decibel Festival (Seattle, USA)
2nd October : Berghain (Berlin, Germany) + Regis, Surgeon, Haswell
13th October : Corsica Studios (London, UK) + Vatican Shadow, Young Hunting, Black Rain + more
27th October : NK (Berlin, Germany) + Florian Hecker, Marcus Schmickler

CUT HANDS : LIVE UPDATE

16th Aug : Edinburgh Festival (Edinburgh, UK)
19th Aug : DOMMUNE ZERO Festival (Kawasaki, Japan)
23rd Aug : DOMMUNE venue (Tokyo, Japan) - EXTRA SHOW
4th Sep : Cry Parrot Festival (Glasgow, UK)
24th Sep : Netwerk (Brussels, Belgium)
30th Sep : Endtyme (Manchester, UK) - NEW SHOW ADDED!
10th Oct : Unsound Festival (Krakow, Poland)
21st Oct : Blackest Ever Black (London, UK)
23rd Oct : Supersonic Festival (Birmingham, UK)
2nd Nov : (Copenhagen, Denmark) - NEW SHOW ADDED!
11th Nov : (Brussels, Belgium)
19th Nov : (Gdansk, Poland)
tbc Nov : (Lithuania)
tbc Nov : (Estonia)
tbc Nov : (Latvia)
tbc Nov : (Lyon, France)
tbc Nov : (Geneva, Switzerland)
tbc Dec : (Oslo, Norway)
tbc February 2012 : tour (USA)

CUT HANDS ALBUM UPDATE 5

Cut Hands - Afro Noise I

Volume 1
A01 Welcome To The Feast Of Trumpets
A02 Stabbers Conspiracy
A03 Rain Washes Over Chaff
A04 Nzambi Ia Lufua

B01 Who No Knows Go Knows
B02 ++++ (Four Crosses)
B03 Brown-Brown
B04 Shut Up And Bleed

Volume 2
C01 Munkisi Munkondi
C02 Impassion
C03 Ezili Freda
C04 Nzambi Ia Muini

D01 Bia Mintatu
D02 Kongo
D03 Backlash
D04 Rain Washes Away Every Thing

CUT HANDS ALBUM UPDATE 4

It's been absolutely thrilling to get so much fantastic feedback for this album via personal messages and some early reviews, it really means a lot; not only that, it's been the fastest-selling record I've ever been part of, by quite a distance. Very exciting. This good will was, nevertheless, tempered by some scathing criticism from the encrusted keyboards of a couple of Finnish noisabilly scenesters. Oh well.

Likewise, there's a neighbour who, over these four years, has complained regularly and bitterly about the 'disturbing percussion sounds coming from upstairs'. Fortunately, as we have different entrances going in and out, he doesn't know who I am; I, however, do perfectly know what he looks like and let me assure you he's more than vaguely creepy-looking. What's really weird is one time he kicked up an especially huge fuss over 'those fucking voodoo drums'. I was on holiday.

Good news on the vinyl front: Afro Noise I will be split into two separate volumes, each with extra material. More details on that coming soon.

After a few days' toil, we've finally managed to finish off rendering the all-new visuals for live performances. First showing will be at around 11pm this Friday at the big show at the Glasgow School of Art; if you can, come along, you should know it'll be an amazing night.

Anyway, another limited batch of the Cut Hands art postcards for new orders has landed, the ones stocks of which so quickly ran dry. If you didn't get a brace with your order from Susan Lawly, then drop me a line and I'll ensure that particular wrong is righted.

CUT HANDS ALBUM UPDATE 3

CUT HANDS 3

Official release date for the Cut Hands album (CD version, 16pp booklet, catalogue no. VFSL101) has now been set for May 23rd. Still can't believe it. Planning a special limited edition vinyl edition at a later date.

CUT HANDS 2
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CUT HANDS 2

The album has now been mastered by the audio legend that is Denis Blackham and there should be an official release date to announce shortly. Am excited. More news soon.

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WEB EXCLUSIVE

There's a web exclusive track from Afro Noise I featured at The Wire magazine online site, which is to accompany my Inner Sleeve feature on Yoko Ono's Fly 2LP in the current issue (November 09, #309).

AFRO NOISE I : EXCERPT

Finally. Sorry it's taken so long, a lot of work's gone into it and so I hope you'll find it was worth it. Link below for a short 8 minute (or so) excerpt from this weekend's Resonance FM radio broadcast of the first afro noise mix - the full version is 49:40 and being broadcast on Sunday 20th July. Enjoy.

DJ Cut Hands (William Bennett) - Afro Noise I (excerpt) 8:14 - mp3/256kbps

• DJ Cut Hands (William Bennett) - Afro Noise I (full version) 49:40
• djembe, doundoun, ksing-ksing, synthesiser, electronics by William Bennett; produced by William Bennett
  
• also excerpts from Florian Hecker, Whitehouse, East African witchcraft and Ghanaian funeral field recordings (with thanks to Brian Conniffe for his kind assistance), feline recordings

CUT HANDS : INAUGURAL NIGHT!

Artwork by Stefan Danielsson.

EDINBURGH NIGHTS

a new night for music like no other : where the rules of the West no longer apply, where the sound of voodoo and santería is mixed with raw electricity : where we have the secret, you have the dilemma, and we have the solution - welcome to CUT HANDS!

opening at Henry's Cellar Bar in Edinburgh on Friday, 25th July from 7pm till 10pm - I'll be doing an afro noise DJ set and there'll be live stuff too! more details soon!