jodanchudan
174 posts
Dec 21, 2010
3:33 PM
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Does anyone know anything about when Hazmat Modine's new album (Cicada) is going to be released? Their website has said 'soon to be released' for months. Listened to Bahamut again last night and now I need a new Hazmat Modine fix!
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tmf714
400 posts
Dec 22, 2010
7:57 AM
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January 31st is the official release date-I am trying to get a copy this week-I will keep you posted-
Tom Fiacco.
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bonedog569
163 posts
Dec 22, 2010
10:01 AM
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Thanks for the headsup - I was wondering why they aren't mentioned here very often. They are making some of the best, most interesting, harp centric music on the planet.
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toddlgreene
2305 posts
Dec 22, 2010
10:20 AM
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We had a few threads on them some time ago, around the time Andy J. Forest mentioned to me he'd like to do a band along their lines....their music was a very cool discovery, and I'll be anxious to know when the new stuff comes out, too.
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Todd L. Greene, Codger-in-training
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jodanchudan
175 posts
Dec 24, 2010
12:37 PM
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Thanks for the update. I gather Wade Schuman has joined the forum so I guess he'll provide the definitive answer!
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wade schuman
1 post
Dec 30, 2010
9:16 PM
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Hey there, nice to meet you all!
Hey Adam!
Yes I came upon the thread via google alerts...Strange world we live in...Everything connected...
Thanks for your interest and kind words about the CD... I am in the final throes of finishing it up, and if I don't run out of bread, lose my mind, or get run over in the snow it will be out for printing by the end of January!
That being said, the release is slated for sometime in the Spring... it is coming out on Barbes here in the U.S. and Jaro in Europe.
It's been about four years in the making... has about 14 tracks and a fancy booklet.
Apart from the usual eight piece HAZMAT crew the CD also has some special guests: Natalie Merchant, Kronos quartet, and the Amazing Gangbe Brass Band from Beinin, as well as an older track with Huun Huur Tu...The other harmonica player on the CD besides myself is Bill Barrett who has been touring with us for the past four years. listening to it I would say the main difference from the first CD is that the bands is tighter (five years of solid touring will do that!) and that the development of the horn section and harmony singing has given the band a fatter fuller sound...and perhaps more of a R&B element...The CD has more vocals...very few pure instrumentals like the last one had...I hadn't thought of it as a harp-centric CD...but recently doing the final mixes I was surprised how much harmonica there is on it... and Bill has a very unique sound that really effects the feeling of the CD...
My very best to everyone here, and again it's a pleasure to meet you all!
~wade of HAZMAT modine
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oda
420 posts
Dec 30, 2010
9:57 PM
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Hey wade,
Good to see ya posting in this Heah parts.
I look forward to the release!
Hey... Maybe you can tell us some stuff about yerself? There ain't much info on how such a great harp player got that way, or who his influences are, Y'know what I mean? Wade?
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MichaelAndrewLo
515 posts
Dec 30, 2010
11:23 PM
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Yeah I am curious to know how your band is so together and tight on the arrangements. I know touring/playing a lot helps but how do you organize your songs in the first place? Improv on a theme? Do you write out arrangements etc.?
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Andrew Larson, R.N.
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MichaelAndrewLo
516 posts
Dec 30, 2010
11:23 PM
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Yeah I am curious to know how your band is so together and tight on the arrangements. I know touring/playing a lot helps but how do you organize your songs in the first place? Improv on a theme? Do you write out arrangements etc.?
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Andrew Larson, R.N.
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wade schuman
2 posts
Jan 04, 2011
9:49 PM
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Thanks for the welcome...
Sorry to get back to this late...it's a kinda busy time...
Weeelll.. I can't say really...thanks for the compliments...! yeah, it comes from touring and also playing songs over a long period of time and letting the song develop...I can't read or write music, so I just kind of write down my ideas or record them and ask people to play them a certain way...or play them and ask them to play it a certain way...that being said it takes me a LONG time to come up with arrangements that I am happy with...But it helps to have such great players! they are all stone pros and can somehow decipher my inarticulate ramblings...and they contribute a LOT as well...I think I generally have a very clear idea of what I want musically and that helps...even if I can't write it down. I know what it "feels" like and what I want. (Though I do wish I could write...!) As for inspiration on the instrument I really grew up listening to mainly pre-war stuff... The "Harmonica blues of the 20's and 30's" on Yazzoo was my "bible" there is pretty much every possible technique and sound on that Album.
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Rubes
204 posts
Jan 05, 2011
2:15 AM
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Damn you people making me look up MORE music (Bahamut) on Itunes and spending MORE money I haven't GOT !!!
:~}
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Hollistonharper
230 posts
Jun 02, 2011
7:06 PM
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FYI --Hazmat Modine's new album CICADA was released right before HCH, am downloading it now.
Hazmat Modine and Hill Country Harmonica...hmmm that would be something completely different!
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