Big Hands is the main moniker of elusive artist Andrea Ottomani, Andrea Ottomani Nontet, and Otto Von Lumi. Mainly known for his serpentine, labyrinthine electronic productions, which found a home on labels such as Marionette, Al Wootton’s Trule, Blank Mind, and Vargmal. In recent years, he has developed an intimate, personal electronic sound that owes as much to free jazz and psych-rock as to dub and techno. Operating from London’s Honest Jon’s Records, in 2020, he founded, alongside Soreab, the label Baroque Sunburst, releasing a series of distinctive records operating in a space that runs parallel to, adjacent to, but never touches a generally accepted club music sound. Together with Abraham Parker, he runs the Ottomani Parker collective, focusing on live improvisation, colliding jazz and dub techno. Big Hands’ 2025 album Thauma was born of Ottomani’s efforts to build an archive of percussive loops, bells, soundscapes, and voices, with the intent of creating a map of recurring sounds connected to his Mediterranean heritage.
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