Snap Hands is the debut album by Herv. It’s going to be released at an album launch gig in Lazybird (upstairs in the International bar, Wicklow street, Dublin 2) on next Sunday the 14th of December. It’s a measly four euros in, and the album will be available on the night at a special reduced price. Herv will be playing live, and support is from The Last Sound. Snap Hands is a 14-track swarm of frantic syncopated percussion and 8-bit melody, punctuated by warm accordian and layered violin and cello lines. The Wire magazine thought it was "like watching late period Rick Wakeman being attacked by robots made out of old spring coils". They meant that as a good thing, by the way. Herv has played live over the last while with The Jimmy Cake, Estel, Dalek, Max Tundra, Jape, Spectac, Formika and Papercop, amongst others, and has played at the Mór Festival, the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF) and the Dublin Fringe Festival. Some Herv mp3s: "Corrective Action": http://www.compactrisc.net/extras/mp3/correctiveaction.mp3 (about 4.4mb). "Fast Food, Slow Women" http://www.compactrisc.net/extras/mp3/fastfoodslowwomen.mp3 (about 4.7mb) "Demian": http://www.compactrisc.net/extras/mp3/demian.mp3 (about 4.2mb). Snap Hands is being released by Compactrisc records and Sinkorswim records and is risc006/sos001. Links: www.compactrisc.net. www.compactrisc.net/herv. www.sinkorswimrecords.com. www.lazybird.org. www.thelastsound.com.