Many Hands - The Complete Collection

by Brian Harnetty

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1.	New Straitsville 02:43		buy track
2.	Richard L. Davis - Labor Organizer 02:00	info	buy track
3.	Hemlock 01:52	info	buy track
4.	Major Fountain - Miner 02:25	info	buy track
5.	Murray City 01:24	lyrics	buy track
Murray City is part of the Little Cities of Black Diamonds region in Appalachian Ohio.
6.	Thomas Spare - Surveyor and Architect 02:36	info	buy track
7.	Corning 04:04	info	buy track
8.	William Agustus Harnetty - Tile Plant Worker and Apple Farmer 02:07	info	buy track
9.	Shawnee 01:44	info	buy track
10.	Adam Clayton Powell - Pastor and Miner 02:24	info	buy track
11.	Glouster 02:13	info	buy track
12.	Sam Jones - Boxing Trainer 02:47	info	buy track
13.	Carbon Hill 02:06	info	buy track
14.	Cheryl Blosser - Historian 03:52	info	buy track
15.	Moxahala 01:24	info	buy track
16.	Florence Paxton - Mother and Farmer 04:02	info	buy track
17.	San Toy 07:00	info	buy track
18.	Sophia Mitchell - Mayor 03:02	info	buy track
19.	Millfield 03:45	info	buy track
20.	Casey Jones - Moonshiner 03:14	info	buy track
21.	Rendville 03:39	info	buy track
22.	Bertha Eichenbaum - Chemist and Educator 04:12	info	buy track
23.	Junction City 03:11	info	buy track
24.	Paul Harnetty - Typewriter Repairman 03:55	info	buy track

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MANY HANDS is about the rhythms of landscape and labor in Appalachian Ohio. The old phrase, “many hands make light work” is the starting point, where people work together toward a common cause and are greater for it. Throughout, the music evokes the emotions, natural environments, and communities that can be found in the region. The twenty-four movements musically amplify a very different Appalachia from recent stereotypes. They draw inspiration from a complex landscape of environmental damage and recovery, small towns with a long history of labor struggles, and current soundscapes that both celebrate and critically listen to the people that live there.

MANY HANDS is divided into two sets of twelve pieces each, based on LANDSCAPES (with “open” rhythms) and LABOR (with “structured” rhythms). The landscapes are named after small towns in Appalachian Ohio — from Moxahala to San Toy to Junction City (my father’s birthplace) — and evoke their natural and human rhythms. The labor portraits are named after past and present local people and their jobs, from prominent black labor organizers and boxing coaches to miners and moonshiners. They reflect the shared rhythms of manual, community, and care labor that form the fabric of the region.

Earlier praise: "4/5 STARS - A collection of pianistic and minimal miniatures, delicate and fragile as a faint memory... Brian Harnetty continues an exploration of minimal piano as if he were looking through infinite tiny details to revive old memories… The result is a magnificent disc." —Benzine Magazine, France

"... a peaceful, contemplative salve." —Columbus Alive

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released December 15, 2021

Mastering: Keith Hanlon, Secret Studio
Cover Photo: Courtesy of the Little Cities of Black Diamonds Archive

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Brian Harnetty Columbus, Ohio

Interdisciplinary artist using sound and listening to foster social change. Recordings on Winesap, Karl, Dust-to-Digital, Atavistic, and Scioto Records.

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