Artist: HAND

Title: Reveal
Release Date: June 13th, 2019
URL: puremagnetik.bandcamp.com
Formats: Cassette, Digital
Contact: hello@puremagnetik.com
For Immediate Release
May 10, 2019

Reveal, from HAND, Out Now on Puremagnetik Tapes

Puremagnetik Tapes, the new record label from Puremagnetik, a music software maker known for its library of
unique instruments and effects, is excited to announce its third release: Reveal, from producer HAND.

Reveal will be available June 13 on limited edition cassette and digital download via Bandcamp, and through Spotify
and other streaming services.

The pure sound of Reveal, a glowing, tactile bath across that is propelled across the frequency spectrum by a subtle
but full-bodied beat, fits like a glove into the Puremagnetik Tapes aesthetic: in the words of label founder, Puremag-
netik head, and musician Micah Frank, that means “focusing on experimental, ambient and acousmatic music.”

"How Would Basinski Sound If He Made Music For The Dance Floor?”

On Reveal, Sascha Bachman, aka HAND, has created a unique balance of classic ambient music, sounds and musi-
cal figures that touch the edge of melody and harmony, and a just-above-subliminal pulse. These elements come
together in a sound world that is in turn comforting and haunting. Reveal's surface may be gentle, but the music
reaches deep, starting with the stratospheric heights of “God Only Knows,” to the galactic distances of “Into the Void,”
and concluding with “Poem for Tanja,” a nostalgic poem for magnetic tape.

Bachmann’s bio harkens back to the ‘80s, when he spent time listening on his father’s Tesla tape recorder. The ana-
log medium is fundamental to his music making—in performance he uses a tape machine and plays Super 8 movies.
About his unique approach to rhythm in electronic music, he explains: "I have a professional drummer background
and for a long time I was only concentrated on my career as a sideman. But growing up in Berlin and not also getting
into electronic/ambient music is simply not possible. So this kind of music was always in my mind.

"One day I decided to give it a try and quit some bands to focus on research for how I can create my own sound. By
that time I was listening a lot to William Basinski, Basic Channel, and GAS. I was always thinking, how would Basins-
ki sound if he made music for the dance floor?”

To Bachman, "GAS sounded like slower pitched magnetic tape." His answer was to work with tape loops, the source
material of Reveal's sun-like glow.

HAND’s combination of enveloping soundscape and pulse reaches into the listener’s body. The style came to Bach-
man as a question: "What is the first sound we ever heard? What do we listen to in our mother's belly during preg-
nancy? In my imagination we heard a big pulse from the heartbeat surrounded by a droned sound from the outer
world. I like this picture in my head. It is a perfect concept for ambient music, because I want to make the listener
calm, and the sound like in a mothers belly works on various levels to comfort and calm.”

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 Artist: HAND
Title: Reveal
Release Date: June 13th, 2019
URL: puremagnetik.bandcamp.com
Formats: Cassette, Digital
Contact: hello@puremagnetik.com

HAND, Reveal (Puremagnetik Tapes, June 13th, 2019)

1. “God Only Knows”

2. “Song for the Melloncollie”
3. “Burn Bridges”
4. “Turned to Dust”
5. “Into the Void”
6. “Poem for Tanja”

Puremagnetik Tapes webpage: https://puremagnetik.com/collections/tapes

Puremagnetik Tapes at Bandcamp: https://puremagnetik.bandcamp.com

HAND webpage: https://hand-music.com