Hazmat Modine-Cicada-CD-FLAC-2011-THEVOiD

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | Hazmat Modine
     Title   | Cicada
     Genre   | Blues                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 51:13
     Label   | Barbes Records                       Store   | 2011
     Catalog | BR0031                               Rip     | 2020
     Bitrate | 742 kbps                             Size    | 292.20 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Mocking Bird                                                3:44
     02. Child Of A Blind Man (with Natalie Merchant & Gangbe Brass  4:12
         Band)
     03. Two Forty Seven                                             4:46
     04. Cicada                                                      4:52
     05. Buddy                                                       6:08
     06. In Two Years                                                2:00
     07. I've Been Lonely For So Long                                4:19
     08. The Tide                                                    5:50
     09. Ebb Tide                                                    0:46
     10. Walking Stick                                               3:01
     11. So Glad                                                     5:44
     12. Cotonou Stomp (with Gangbe Brass Band)                      2:05
     13. Dead Crow (with Kronos Quartet)                             3:46
 Notes  
     New York-based folk group/ethnomusicology experiment Hazmat Modine draw
     from a wide array of influences and time periods. Performing music from the
     '20s through the early '60s, including genres such as swing, klezmer, hokum
     jug band, blues, rocksteady, and more, the dual harmonica-fronted band has
     earned a reputation as fearless world music alchemists. Founder Wade
     Schuman was brought up in Ann Arbor, MI, a city known for its music scene,
     before relocating to New York. His mastery of early blues styles earned him
     opportunities to record with some of New York's greatest, including an
     appearance on Joan Osborne's Grammy-nominated Relish.
     Hazmat Modine's first album, 2006's Bahamut, earned a placing in the
     Billboard blues chart. Five years later, the band's second, Cicada, might
     be more appropriately slotted in the magazine's traditional jazz chart.
     Truthfully, however, Hazmat Modine present an eclectic mixture of roots
     styles that is nearly beyond category. Bandleader Wade Schuman sings in an
     expressive adenoidal tenor and fronts a group dominated by both familiar
     and less frequently employed horns (Joe Daley plays sousaphone and tuba) in
     what might be called a 'Ry Cooder meets the Dirty Dozen Brass Band' manner.
     But that's only the core of the sound, which also includes other unusual
     instruments and found sounds. The instrumental "In Two Years," for example,
     combines a haunting trumpet refrain, odd percussion, and the sounds of
     fireworks. Schuman can turn to traditional blues, as he does on "Buddy,"
     which has a "St. James Infirmary" feel to it, and to conventional
     old-school R&B, on "I've Been Lonely for So Long." But even on such tracks,
     he changes things up, letting the horns weave in and out as he sings in a
     mannered, slightly tongue-in-cheek style, like Tom Waits in a higher key.
     The danger with such self-consciously mixed-up revivalist music is of
     course that it can come off as something of a joke, but Schuman and company
     are too accomplished as players for that; they are having a lot of fun, not
     just being funny. No wonder they have attracted prominent guests like
     Natalie Merchant, who blends into the group vocals on "Child of a Blind
     Man," and the Kronos Quartet, who make of the closing track, "Dead Crow," a
     hybrid of country hoedown and contemporary chamber music.

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