Hazmat Modine - Bahamut
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17-BARBES014
"Bahamut is Hazmat Modine's long-awaited debut CD: a dizzying, global take on Americana which has the energy of a Romanian brass band and the soul of a vintage blues recording. The band is driven by a pair of harmonicas and aided by the cymbalom, sarusaphone, bass marimba, chinese sheng and claviola. Wade Schuman has the appropriately gruff voice of someone who has both hopped freight trains and been a long-time collaborator of Huun Huur Tuu, the legendary Tuvan Throat singers whose contribution is one of the highlights of Bahamut."
"The singer and harmonica player Wade Schuman's musical vision sounds like something out of Dr. Suess. His group augments Mr. Schumans own avant-blues stylings with a contra-bass, a banjitar, tuba, flugel, trumpet, sheng and, most important, Tuvan throat singing." - The New York Times
"Seems like ages since harmonicas have sounded as hep as Wade Schuman’s and Randy Weinstein’s do in this hand-painted confab of rusty blues, piquant rumbas, sawdust-floor reggae, Hawaiian guitar, and—sure, why not?—Tuvan throat singing. Welcome to the old weird globalism." Richard Gehr/The Village Voice