Hazmat Modine
Bill Lee & The Natural Spiritual Orchestra
Pamela has been part of Hazmat Modine since 2005
|
Hazmat Modine |
|
|
|
Bill Lee & The Natural Spiritual Orchestra
|
|
|
HAZMAT MODINE draws from the rich soil of American music of the 20's and 30's through to the 50’s and 60’s, blending elements of early Blues and Hokum, Swing, Eastern European music, New Orleans R & B, Jamaican Rocksteady, and Rock & Roll. The band is fronted by two harmonicas which use call and response, harmony, melody, and syncopated interweaving rhythms. The band includes tuba, guitar, trumpet, and percussion, sometimes claviola and Hawaiian steel guitar. The band’s sound reflects musical influences ranging from Avant-garde Jazz to Rockabilly and Western Swing to Middle-Eastern, African, and Hawaiian musical.
Band Members:
Hazmat Modine: "Bahamut"Bahamut: This monstrous fish comes from Moslem traditions. The legend goes that it floats in a vast sea. A giant bull rides on its back and on the bull is a ruby mountain. There is an angel on the mountain over which are six hells, then the Earth, and then seven heavens. The bahamut is so huge and dazzling that human beings cannot look upon it. While their own description of the creature on the title track reveals different details, dazzling also seems an appropriate adjective for this wildly eclectic NYC band. At first blush, Hazmat Modine is a blues band: harmonicas, resonator/slide guitars, drums, some horns. But then there’s the throat singing (courtesy of Huun Huur Tu) and Alexander Fedoriouk’s cimbalom. A disorienting moment later, you settle into a mysterious undiscovered country, a crossroad where the collision of Tuvan, Roma, and Americana not only makes sense, it’s inevitable. Imagine a plane carrying the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Bob Brozman among a trouple of Roma encamped on the Tuvan steppe, and you’’ start to get the idea. It’s world music for blues/swing fans, Americana for world music junkies, and just damn good. Spin the Globe * * * |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pamela Fleming & Fearless Dreamer - Official Website
© 2000 Fearless Dreamer all rights reserved
Design by StraySnake - Send questions or comments to the Web Wizard
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)