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This is a glorious album, like a swinging classical orchestral piece, the many musical flavours are used to tell stories and draw pictures. There were many moments when I imagined a stop motion gothic animation accompanying the music, so vividly did Sam Reider and The Human Hands create moods, moments and images .
Jan 15, 2020 · about. Composer, accordionist, and pianist Sam Reider announces The Human Hands EP, a video record of original music, filmed and recorded live, directly to tape in Brooklyn, NY. A jazz pianist by training, Reider has spent the last decade traveling with an accordion strapped to his back, exploring and interpreting folk music from around the world.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2017 CD release of "Too Hot To Sleep" on Discogs.
Cross-cultural collaboration plays a vital role in Reider’s creative practice. His most recent project, a collaboration with Venezuelan artist Jorge Glem, puts the accordion in musical conversation with the cuatro. After meeting Glem at a house party in 2017, Reider began taking the train from Brooklyn to visit Glem at his apartment in the Bronx.
Sam Reider & The Human Hands. Led by Latin Grammy-nominated accordionist, pianist, and composer Sam Reider, the Human Hands is a collective of innovative acoustic musicians exploring the crossroads of folk, jazz, and traditional music from around the world. Irresistible melodies, joyful improvisation and otherworldly sounds collide in what ...
Sam Reider is an accordionist, pianist, composer and singer from Brooklyn. A jazz pianist turned folk musician, Sam has spent the last eight years redefining American roots music on the accordion.
Reider is the leader of a “staggeringly virtuosic band” (RnR Magazine) of bluegrass and jazz musicians based in Brooklyn called The Human Hands. Following the release of their critically-acclaimed record Too Hot to Sleep (2018), Sam and the Human Hands have appeared at major festivals and venues throughout the US and the UK and performed live on the BBC.
