LAUGHING HANDS - Dog Photos LP space rock thanks to the wall of

thanks to the wall of sound production of the mysterious Marshall Lawless

he'd really only ever produced one record for friend and area musician Ben Carr's band LAST YEAR'S MEN (a group of rowdy teenagers at the time with as much of a natural knack for mature and emotive narrative songwriting - brought to the surface

and a soulful denouement in the classical strings and piano of “Lamina”

) is spot-on for what budget rock ought to be

LAUGHING HANDS - Dog Photos LP space rock thanks to the wall ofLaughing Hands worked in the experimental music scene in Melbourne in the very early 1980s. They were an improvisation group using tapes, synthesisers, guitar and hand percussion much of which was then treated through the synthesisers, producing their soft, insistent and rhythmic sound. Dog Photos was originally releasedin 1981 by bands own label Adhesive records. The sounds in these 11 pieces are a combination of direct to tape and cassette to tape