One Heart Many Hands

I was able to ask Steve Hesselink aka. One Heart Many Hands a few questions when he played here last week with Friday Morning's Regret and Jonas Bonnetta. Unfortunately my tape recorder screwed up and I didn't end of getting anything he said, so I had to do the interview again. He was a great sport about the whole thing, but I didn't want to take up too much of his time so I didn't really ask all the questions I wanted to:

How long has One Heart Many Hands been around?

Steve: I've probably been doing it for about a year, yeah, a year or so.

Do you write your songs in a way that allows you to properly recreate them live?

Steve: Well, when I originally write them, I write them so that I can play almost the exact same thing live, and on record actually I've done almost that exact same thing too because I loop everything so it's pretty thick as it is, so I just kinda play it as I would live.

How did you meet Friday Morning's Regret and Jonas Bonnetta?

Steve: Friday Morning's Regret I met through playing shows in Toronto and mutual friends Ohbijou, and Jonas I met kinda through the MySpace world and he was friends with them as well so that's how I knew him, and the D'Urbervilles, the other band I play in, we played at his house... so that's how I know him.

Jonas actually recorded your EP, correct?

Steve: Yeah, that's right, he's got a great studio space he rents, and yeah, we recorded basically about 35 minutes worth of stuff, so between that and some older stuff I had I'm going to release a full-length probably in the fall.

Will the full-length have these songs?

Steve: Yes it will, yeah all the songs will be on the full-length, they're just shorter versions of what I'll do later.

What made you decide to make One Heart Many Hands' postcards?

Steve: Well my friend Kimberly England out of Toronto, she makes a lot of stuff out of felt, and I said to her I wanted some posters or something to sell 'cause I really liked her work, and she came up with the idea of postcards and I thought it was great!

Tunes: myspace.com/1heartmanyhands