Many Hands is another brand new label – so new in fact that I, unfortunately, can’t find a sales link – that deserves a Ban Ban Ton Ton pitch. Jona Jefferies – a true blue Ibicenco / Eivissenc – and Kava are the fine folks at the helm. The first E.P. collects four cuts from various members of the imprint’s musical family. 

Dan Aikido opens with 0800 TXT4 Herb, a lush, laidback fusion number named, I’m guessing, after a favoured, flavoured combustible door-to-door narcotic delivery service. Building a gently lapping, loping groove, from a fretless bass loop, bit by bit, Dan introduces jazzy keys and soulful vocals. The result could be considered a kissing cousin to the strange, alien do-wop of Rare Silk’s Storm. Ernie Ruso’s sensual Stroke It is slow, squelchy R&B, that rides a P-funky wah-wah effect. Picture George Clinton partying with TLC. DJ Nomad – of A808 – then ups the tempo, providing a piece of positive pop house. His African Boy boasts funky organ and a female reggae MC, and could pass for the E-Z Possee, if produced / remixed by Clivillés & Cole. The song’s vibe very similar to Dread Flimstone’s From The Ghetto – a big back-in -the-day Danny Rampling / Milk Bar favourite. Señor Jefferies himself closes the 12, with his Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sampling A Change Will Come. Pushing even more positivity by attaching the murdered civil rights hero’s sadly still relevant dream to warm swells, piano ripples and a warehouse rocking rave break.