selected press for Farm Hand

recordings

“Music with reverent, almost religious overtones” Wire Magazine

“With its arcane oddness and warped, subterranean beats, the music of Farm Hand seems very much at ease alone in the dark” Gold Flake Paint

“almost spiritual in its delivery, with drawn out melodies and deep choral harmonies rubbing against bucolic electronics” M Magazine

“a vein of Welsh Psych gold mined from the Radnorshire hills.” New Sound Wales

“an essential continuation of Wales’ tradition of rurally honed psychedelia” From The Margins

live

“Truly brilliant and truly bonkers. Farm Hand engages with those of us here in a way that makes us glad we’ve attended this show. 10/10” Louder Than War

“Farm Hand offers something truly alternative sharing more similarities with an interactive art show than alternative music” Quench

“beautiful pieces of music, hymnal and sombre and hilarious, and you should really go and see him if you can.” God Is In The TV

“Over the course of his set, he stands on one table, takes a seat at another and shows off some line-dancing moves – all before prompting a discussion about the best way to cook couscous” Buzz

His droney-church-organ shifts and scrapes, together with deeply voiced singing by his silver-coated figure, made for an other-worldly experience | CCQ Magazine

bio 

Farm Hand is the solo project of Mark Daman Thomas (of Welsh avantists Islet), crafting reflective, ambient music shaped by the hills and chapels of rural mid-Wales. Based in Radnorshire, he works with field recordings, loops, and organs to create beatless, reverberating pieces described by The Wire as “music with reverent, almost religious overtones”  

His latest album Land Work - recorded with Stephen Black (Sweet Baboo / Group Listening) drifts gently through borderland soundscapes, featuring recordings made along Offa’s Dyke, in castle ruins, and remote churches.