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On two new releases, fans can hear Mark Sandmanâs âsecret bandâ in full By Stuart Munro Globe correspondent,Updated April 15, 2021, 3:54 p.m. Email to a Friend Mark Sandman (left) with bandmates Mike Rivard and Tom Halter (partially shown) at a Hypnosonics show at the Middle East in 1987 or 1988.Wayne Valdez Mark Sandman had a âsecret band.â Or at least, thatâs how the man who made his mark in Boston and beyond with Treat Her Right and Morphine singled out Hypnosonics, one of the many bands the inveterate collaborator was involved in alongside those famous outfits. Why Sandman thought it deserved that epithet is not entirely clear. Russ Gershon, long-time inhabitant of the Boston music landscape with jazz group Either/Orchestra, can only speculate. Gershon was a member of Hypnosonics pretty much from the get-go until the group was abruptly ended by Sandmanâs untimely death in 1999, and he provides extensive liner notes for a p ....