Hazmat Modine
| Hazmat Modine | |
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 Joe Daley (left) and Wade Schuman at the Stockholm Jazz Festival 2009 |
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| General information | |
| origin | New York City , United States |
| Genre (s) | Blues , roots music , world music |
| founding | 1998 |
| Website | www.hazmatmodine.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Wade Schuman | |
Guitar , vocals, songwriting |
Erik Della Penna |
| Reut Regev | |
| Joe Daley | |
| Pamela Fleming | |
| Patrick Simard | |
| Steve Elson | |
| Charles Burnham | |
| former members | |
Harmonica, vocals, sheng
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Randy Weinstein (until 2009) |
Saxophone, sarrusophone
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Scott Robinson |
Harmonica, vocals |
Bill Barrett (from 2009) |
| Michael Gomez, Pete Smith | |
| Richard Huntley | |
| Mazz Swift | |
Hazmat Modine is an American blues and roots music band from New York , which was founded in 1998 by Wade Schuman and Randy Weinstein and which has gained greater fame since 2006. By combining different musical styles such as blues , rock steady , Calypso and Klezmer and numerous live performances in North America, Europe and Asia, the band has a name in world music - Genre made.
The name of the band is made up of " Hazmat ", one in English common portmanteau for hazardous material , so dangerous , and together called "Modine," a reference to the as Modine known, mostly commercial heaters of air conditioners manufacturer Modine Manufacturing Company . Schuman found this reference appropriate, as his band's wind instruments would produce "a lot of hot air".
history
Band founder and lead singer Wade Schuman (born 1962) is considered excellent harmonica player and has as a session musician on Joan Osborne's four times Grammy -nominated album Relish in 1995 and most recently at the awarded the Grammy 2010 album High, Wide and Handsome by Loudon Wainwright III participated.
After moving from Michigan to New York in the late 1990s, the New York Academy of Art art lecturer and award-winning painter began putting together a band to implement his own musical ideas. He soon found a colleague in Randy Weinstein, the long-time second harmonica player in the band. They built Hazmat Modine into a band that consists of a solid core of eight to nine members, with various guest musicians and sometimes former band members performing regularly. The band consists of experienced studio and live musicians from various genres of music. For example, the renowned jazz musician Joe Daley plays the tuba . A frequent guest on concert tours is Rachelle Garniez on the accordion and the claviola .
The interaction and the call and response passages of the two harmonica players Wade Schuman and Bill Barrett (or Randy Weinstein on the band's first CD) were a recurring feature in the band's songs. In addition, numerous other wind instruments are used, such as tuba , trumpet , saxophone , sarrusophone and also more exotic instruments such as sheng or claviola. These are usually accompanied by drums, percussion and various guitars ( acoustic and electric guitar , Hawaiian guitar , banjitar).
In 2006 (in Europe only in 2007) the debut album Bahamut was released , the material of which had been recorded between 2003 and 2005 and which reached number 12 in the Top Blues Albums category on the Billboard charts . The name of the album refers to the figure of the fish Bahamut from Arabic mythology, who swims in baseless waters, supposedly carrying the whole world on his shoulders.
Critics attest the band's great originality in terms of the mix of different musical styles. While in some moments the blues of the 20s and 30s sounded through, in other moments you would have the impression of listening to an Eastern European brass band. On three tracks on Bahamut , befriended singers of the Tuvinian band Huun-Huur-Tu , who are known for their characteristic overtone singing , also take part. Schuman stated in an interview that the music of his band reflects the diverse influences of the "melting pot New York". He himself was strongly influenced by early blues music, but was also heavily involved with Romanian folk music. The other band members, on the other hand, would also bring Cuban, Jamaican or jazz and klezmer influences into the band.
In 2009, co-founder Randy Weinstein, who had appeared on various records by jazz singer Karrin Allyson in the 1990s and is co-author of the book Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Harmonica , left the band to start his own jazz project, the Randy Weinstein Group , to found. He was replaced by Bill Barrett.
The band can now look back on live performances in more than 20 countries. B. at the WOMEX 2007 in Seville , the Stockholm Jazz Festival 2009 and the jazz festivals in Berlin and Vienna . In spring 2019, the 22nd European tour since 2007 took place. The second album called Cicada - with guest contributions from Natalie Merchant , the Kronos Quartet and the Gangbé Brass Band from Benin - was released in April 2011. The album Extra-Deluxe-Supreme , released in 2015, was recorded again with the support of Tuvan musicians. This time it was the Alash Ensemble , conducted by Sean Quirk.
The fourth studio album Box of Breath was released in mid-May 2019. It contains twelve original songs by Wade Schuman and Erik Della Penna. The corresponding European tour began in Kiev and ended in Bremen. In addition to the regular cast, the African Balla Kouyaté from Mali plays the balafon on seven of the twelve tracks and Tim Keiper plays the drums on nine . The guitarist and instrument maker Mark Stewart from Brooklyn plays the daxophone and Benjamin Darvill aka Son of Dave as beatboxer and instrumentalist on each track on the album .
Discography
- 2006: Bahamut (album, Barbès Records / JARO)
- 2011: Cicada (Album, Barbès Records / JARO)
- 2014: Live (JARO)
- 2015: Extra-Deluxe-Supreme (Album, Barbès Records / JARO) - PdSK -bestliste 1/2016
- 2019: Box of Breath (Album, JARO)
Web links
- Hazmat Modine at Allmusic (English)
- Hazmat Modine at laut.de
- Interview with Wade Schumann on buechergilde.de. Archived from the original on April 12, 2012 ; accessed on February 7, 2016 .
- Hazmat Modine. JARO Medien GmbH, accessed on February 7, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Wade Schumann , conducted by Marty Lipp for rootsworld.com
- ↑ Summary of Schuman's work as a painter ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000979537
- ↑ Marty Lipp speaks to Wade Schuman on rootsworld.com
- ↑ Disc review from May 7, 2007 by Daniel Straub on laut.de.
- ↑ Full board meeting of the CD Bahamu July 2007 by Mark Harrison for bluesinlondon.com
- ↑ Interview with Wade Schuman
- ↑ European Tour Hazmat Modine May 17 to June 20, 2019 , europejazz.net, accessed October 10, 2019
- ^ To Instrumental Man , The New Yorker, May 4, 2003, accessed October 18, 2019
- ↑ Box Of Breath track list on Discogs, accessed October 18, 2019
- ↑ http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/bestenlisten/805-bestenliste-1-2016
