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Bonfire
on Geckophonic
Records!
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to buy our latest album
Box
of Breath
on Geckophonic
Records!
Click here
to buy the album
The
CD includes the guest musicians:
Balla Kouyate,
Mazz Swift, Mark Stewart, Charlie Burnham & Son of Dave.
Twelve original songs with a beautifully designed 28 page booklet.
Some
international reviews:
"... The
songs are sublime again, the arrangements phenomenal, the vocals of
Schuman and the band fantastic, and the passion with which they
play unsurpassed...Sorry, but this is an album that I can only talk
about in superlatives - for me this is already the topper of 2019…”
Moors Magazine - Holland
“…There
is, in all likelihood, no other American band that
so definitively captures the true meaning of roots music then
Wade Schuman’s 9-piece New York collective. Whilst
touchstones abound, and lashings of blues,
New Orleans flavored jazz and funk, Calypso, Balkanova,
Klezmer, Gypsy Jazz, and African grooves are all thrown in the
crucible, what comes out is entirely original and
intoxicating…Comes the time to pass judgement on the years best,
Box of Breath has “contender" written all over it.”
Rhythms Magazine - Australia
“... with this haunting humdinger of
a fifth album, the band has hit an apotheosis that
consolidates claims to it being one of the most dynamic
and distinctive US roots collectives…Befitting a band that
has toured are then 40 countries, Hazmat Modine takes delight
in bending musical boundaries. Global hues
add considerable clout and intrigue to the
bands brand off Bohemian blues.”
Tony Hillier - The Australian
"This is a New York band that has
achieved the tour de force, by itself, of representing the entire
history of American music. A vast musical melting pot in which all
genres merge to form one! There are Blues, Swing, sounds of music
from Eastern Europe, Folk, Jamaican and Hawaiian consonances, and
so on…In all, 54 minutes for a fascinating overview of some
great and magnificent American musical territories. Very nice
album!”
Dominique Boulay Paris - Move & Blues Magazine France
HAZMAT MODINE & BOX OF BREATH
The
latest collection of original material finds Hazmat deep in command
of their self-created idiom — swimming in international waters but
never far from the American coast. Malian riffs infuse with
Mississippi mud and Tin Pan Alley, stretching the band’s roots
aesthetic to include notes of hibiscus and the buzz of mosquitos.
There are songs about death, striving, hoarding, time and the march
of dementia. Soaring horns and wailing harmonica are joined by the
clang of modern India and the murmur of China, a distillation of
Hazmat Modine’s travels through time, place and sound. Throughout,
the CD weaves lyrics that reflect on the times and troubles of the
world we currently live in. This is the bands most mature and
original album yet, something so Hazmatian that it needs its own
genre to define it… Familiar yet un-trodden, Box of Breath
celebrates humanity and mortality.
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