Hazmat Modine / Cicada
Album: Cicada   Collection:General
Artist:Hazmat Modine   Added:Jun 2011
Label:Barbes Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-12-11 Pull Date: 2012-02-12
Week Ending: Feb 5
Airplays: 1

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 02, 2016: funk to fiddle
Two Forty Seven
4. Nov 05, 2015: Funk to Fiddle
Cicada
2. Feb 03, 2016: funk to fiddle
I've Been Lonely For So Long
5. Oct 08, 2015: funk to folk
I've Been Lonely For So Long
3. Nov 12, 2015: Funk to Fiddle
So Glad
6. May 22, 2015: funk to folk
So Glad

Album Review
Ruben Kogel
Reviewed 2011-11-27
Blues/World Fusion - This is NY-based Hazmat Modine's second album. Their sound is best described as New Orleans blues meets West African motifs meets Balkan Brass riffs. Bandleader Wade Schuman's singing and harmonica playing is tongue-in-cheek. It's all cleverly done and finely executed - a successful blend of widely different music influences. Another exciting release from up-and-coming Barbes Records label. The band is augmented by an West African brass band on some tracks and by renowned Kronos Quartet on the closing track. Ruben's picks: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13

1*. Great upbeat bluesy tune. vocal intro >> harmonica + electric guitar >> New Orleans brass. Contagious energy.
2*. Blues ballad. Muted choir. Driving riff from the brass section. Elements of West African music
3*. Mid-tempo Ballad. Eminently danceable.
4. voice over (male & female); blues motif. then moves into something more instrumental.
5*. slow tempo 4/4 blues with klezmer tinged brass accompaniment.
6. trumpet solo. fireworks sounds blend in mid-point. more experimental.
7*. clean guitar + clownesque vocals
8. mid-tempo. long sustained vocals. brass band accompaniment
9*. elements of 60's pop mixed up with blues. Flute and harmonica. perfect for a musical interlude.
10*. Slavic/balkan flavor (not blues).
11*. sounds like a reggae anthem. melody is carried by Wade Shuman's heavily distorted harmonica.
12. starts with bits of balkan accordion + farm sounds; then morphs into high energy.
13*. Polished world sound. Acoustic guitar and layered vocals, augmented by soft brass, strings and a banjo.

Track Listing
1. Mocking Bird   7. I've Been Lonely For So Long
2. Child Of A Blind Man   8. The Tide
3. Two Forty Seven   9. Ebb Tide
4. Cicada   10. Walking Stick
5. Buddy   11. So Glad
6. In Two Years   12. Cotonou Stomp
  13. Cead Crow