I picked this up at the local used shop for $6, and god-damn, it’s a good one. Hazmat Modine is apparently a Brooklyn-based collective of jazz and blues enthusiasts who breathe life and spit blood into classic prewar styles. On this disc, Bahamut, they bring in the Tuvan throat-singers Huun-Huur-Tu for three songs, somehow finding the common language between electric blues, New Orleans funeral jazz and whatever the hell Tuvan throat-singers do.
The record is a couple of years old, but it’s on the Barbes imprint, which, you might remember, belongs to Olivier Conan of Chicha Libre…same kind of cool, fresh take on traditional styles.
Posted on 06/06/2008
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