Sunburned Hand of the Man and Paul Flaherty

Boston-based collective Sunburned Hand of the Man represented New England's free rock contingency throughout the mid-'90s and the wooly freak folk era of the 2000s. Made up of a loose assemblage of like-minded musical wanderers, the project's lineup shifted with almost each of their frequent low-key releases, which were often issued in limited editions on CD-Rs through the band's Manhand label. Prolific output ranged from wild improvisatory freak-outs to more coherently sculpted material like 2007's Four Tet-produced outing Fire Escape. After slowing considerably throughout th...