- Mocking Bird
- Child of a Blind Man
- Two Forty Seven
- Cicada
- Buddy
- In Two Years
- I've Been Lonely for So Long
- The Tide
- Ebb Tide
- Walking Stick
- So Glad
- Cotonou Stomp
- Dead Crow
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Richard Livingston Huntley Talking Drum,Gong,Drums,Log Drums
Joseph Daley Tuba,Sousaphone
Alexander Fedoriouk Cimbalom
John Sherba Violin
Jeffrey Zeigler Cello
Steve Elson Piccolo,Clarinet,Sax (Tenor),Sax (Soprano),Sax (Baritone),Contra-Alto Clarinet
Reut Regev Trombone
Kronos Quartet Featured Artist
Catherine Russell Vocals
Bill Barrett Vocals,Chromatic Harmonica
Martial Ahouandjinou Vocals,Trombone
Wade Schuman Handclapping,Guitar,Vocals
James Vodounnon Vocals,Sousaphone
Pete Smith Guitar,Vocals
Erik Della Penna Guitar,Vocals,Handclapping
Alexis Bloom Vocals
Magloire Ahouandjinou Vocals,Trumpet
Crespin Kpitiki Vocals,Percussion
Michael Gomez Guitar,Shamisen,Balalaika,Lap Steel Guitar,Guitar (Resonator),Electric Mando Cello
Michael Farkas Vocals,Handclapping
Pam Fleming Trumpet
Eric Yovogan Vocals,Trumpet
Benoit Avihoue Vocals,Percussion
Lucien Gbaguidi Vocals,Saxophone
Hank Dutt Viola
Elaine Caswell Vocals
Gangbe Brass Band Featured Artist
David Harrington Violin
Scott Lehrer Vocals
Athanase Dehoumon Vocals,Flugelhorn
Natalie Merchant Vocals,Featured Artist
Roland Boeffgen Engineer
Uli Balass Photography
Sulene Fleming Composer
Posie Knight Composer
Bill Barrett Composer
Steve Elson Arranger,Composer
Alex Venguer Engineer
Jerry Weaver Composer
David Schuman Arranger,Composer
Wade Schuman Producer,Paintings,Design,Arranger,Composer
Rick Lieder Photography
Erik Della Penna Composer
J. Daley Composer
Michael Gomez Composer
Willie Samuels Assistant Engineer
Carlos Mendes Pereira Photography
Anya Rozhdestvenskaya Design
M. Gomez Composer
Eric Yovogan Composer
Jean-Pierre Roy Design,Images
Mikael Djossou Engineer
Scott Fraser Engineer
Pamela Fleming Composer
Paul Antonell Engineer
Irving Berlin Composer
Jacob Garchik Arranger,String Arrangements
Frederick Knight Composer
Sal Mormando Engineer
Louis Jordan Composer
Scott Lehrer Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Scott Hull Mastering


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Overview
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. ~ William Ruhlmann
Product Details
Release Date: | 05/17/2011 |
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Label: | BARBES |
UPC: | 0881626939222 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Hazmat Modine Primary Artist,VocalsRichard Livingston Huntley Talking Drum,Gong,Drums,Log Drums
Joseph Daley Tuba,Sousaphone
Alexander Fedoriouk Cimbalom
John Sherba Violin
Jeffrey Zeigler Cello
Steve Elson Piccolo,Clarinet,Sax (Tenor),Sax (Soprano),Sax (Baritone),Contra-Alto Clarinet
Reut Regev Trombone
Kronos Quartet Featured Artist
Catherine Russell Vocals
Bill Barrett Vocals,Chromatic Harmonica
Martial Ahouandjinou Vocals,Trombone
Wade Schuman Handclapping,Guitar,Vocals
James Vodounnon Vocals,Sousaphone
Pete Smith Guitar,Vocals
Erik Della Penna Guitar,Vocals,Handclapping
Alexis Bloom Vocals
Magloire Ahouandjinou Vocals,Trumpet
Crespin Kpitiki Vocals,Percussion
Michael Gomez Guitar,Shamisen,Balalaika,Lap Steel Guitar,Guitar (Resonator),Electric Mando Cello
Michael Farkas Vocals,Handclapping
Pam Fleming Trumpet
Eric Yovogan Vocals,Trumpet
Benoit Avihoue Vocals,Percussion
Lucien Gbaguidi Vocals,Saxophone
Hank Dutt Viola
Elaine Caswell Vocals
Gangbe Brass Band Featured Artist
David Harrington Violin
Scott Lehrer Vocals
Athanase Dehoumon Vocals,Flugelhorn
Natalie Merchant Vocals,Featured Artist
Technical Credits
Robert Palumbo PhotographyRoland Boeffgen Engineer
Uli Balass Photography
Sulene Fleming Composer
Posie Knight Composer
Bill Barrett Composer
Steve Elson Arranger,Composer
Alex Venguer Engineer
Jerry Weaver Composer
David Schuman Arranger,Composer
Wade Schuman Producer,Paintings,Design,Arranger,Composer
Rick Lieder Photography
Erik Della Penna Composer
J. Daley Composer
Michael Gomez Composer
Willie Samuels Assistant Engineer
Carlos Mendes Pereira Photography
Anya Rozhdestvenskaya Design
M. Gomez Composer
Eric Yovogan Composer
Jean-Pierre Roy Design,Images
Mikael Djossou Engineer
Scott Fraser Engineer
Pamela Fleming Composer
Paul Antonell Engineer
Irving Berlin Composer
Jacob Garchik Arranger,String Arrangements
Frederick Knight Composer
Sal Mormando Engineer
Louis Jordan Composer
Scott Lehrer Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Scott Hull Mastering
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