Hazmat Modine - It Calls Me!

The Track "It Calls Me" is taken from Hazmat Modine's outstanding debut album "Bahamut" (2006). The CD is recorded in excellent audio quality. Listen and enjoy it.

"..Hazmat Modine is a band of unwanted sounds, lost instruments, and cultural combinations that reflect the origins of the American musical soul. Their debut CD, Bahamut, (to be released on August 29, 2006 by Barbès Records) explores the road not taken, simultaneously conjuring up the familiar, the otherworldly, and the invisible space between. And yet the defining theme of Hazmat is their accessibility as a celebratory band, not a cerebral one.

The band is led by two harmonica-players, rounded out with tuba, drums, guitars, and trumpet, and recruits guests appearing on lesser-known instruments such as the claviola (a strange free-reed instrument), cimbalom (a large hammered dulcimer of Eastern European origin), the contra-bass saxophone, and the sheng (Chinese mouth organ). One minute you might say they are Blues, and the next minute you might think Rocksteady or even Gypsy, but all along you will hear sounds oddly familiar, yet somehow from a time and place that never existed. Hazmat is not aiming for a nostalgic journey, nor a global mish-mosh of sounds. They are looking for authentic sonic communion. This is something the players feel happens best when they are not rigid about the forms of music they take on."

"..The music of Hazmat Modine on the album Bahamut is some of the best music I've heard this year period. No one serious about knowing the potential that lies within traditional American music should miss listening to the disc. It will open your eyes at the very least, but hopefully also you ears and your heart.."

MUSICIANS:
Huun-Huur-Tu: Throat singing (Mongolian)
Wade Schuman - lead vocals and harmonica
Bill Barrett, vocals - harmonica
Joseph Daly - tuba, sousaphon
Pamela Fleming - trumpet, flugelhorn
Steve Elson - saxophone, duduk, clarinet
Pete Smith - guitar
Michael Gomez - guitar
Richard Huntley - drums, percussion

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[marigroszek]

les deux mondes! C'est la music magnifique, incroyable ! Merci Tiad!! Avec amitie :))))

[aazhie]

This song Calls Me :0 I really dig this band, fav song from the album!

[laelamarie1]

the throat singing is great!!! Who would've thought to add that!!!???

[vigilaki2]

briliant!

[nightimelady]

my fave song on the cd, thanks for posting :)

[DewiKleger]

Wonderful, mein Herr!

[bluesemotion]

beautiful ,excellent!!!

[zara2255]

Very beautiful  ! :)