HAZMAT MODINE
CD RELEASE PARTY FOR
Box of Breath
on Geckophonic Records!
Feb. 1st, 2020 7:00 @
(LE) POISSON ROUGE
158 Bleecker Street, New York NY 10012 call: (212) 505-fish
The unique globe trotting New York roots band HAZMAT MODINE has toured the world for over fifteen years. From Borneo to British Columbia, china and India, Brazil to New Zealand, throughout Europe and into Siberia.
The band distills American music into an essence from its myriad forms:
Blues, Country, R & B, Rock-n-Roll, Jazz, Gospel, World Music, Soul, Roots... - yet it adds to this mixture something raw and mysterious that feels at once familiar and new.
Hazmat Modine’s fourth studio album, Box of Breath, is due out Feb 1st! CD release at Le Poisson Rouge Feb 1st with Balla Kouyate and special guests!
Early international reviews:
“... The songs are sublime again, the arrangements phenomenal, the vocals of Schuman and the band fantastic, and the passion with which they play unsurpassed…
Sorry, but this is an album that I can only talk about in superlatives - for me this is already the topper of 2019…” Moors magazine -Holland.
“…There is, in all likelihood, no other American band that so definitively captures the true meaning of roots music then Wade Schuman’s 9-piece New York collective.
Whilst touchstones abound, and lashings of blues, New Orleans flavored jazz and funk, Calypso, Balkanova, Klezmer, Gypsy Jazz, and African grooves are all thrown in the crucible,
what comes out is entirely original and intoxicating…Comes the time to pass judgement on the years best, Box of Breath has “contender" written all over it.” Rhythms magazine -Australia.

The unique globe trotting New York roots band HAZMAT MODINE has toured the world for over fifteen years. From Borneo to British Columbia, china and India, Brazil to New Zealand, throughout Europe and into Siberia.
The band distills American music into an essence from its myriad forms:
Blues, Country, R & B, Rock-n-Roll, Jazz, Gospel, World Music, Soul, Roots... - yet it adds to this mixture something raw and mysterious that feels at once familiar and new.

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HAZMAT MODINE plays the kind of Blues one might have found in a barrelhouse in New Orleans had the city been inhabited by gypsies who performed with Otis Redding and the city had been built on the Black Sea. The band is driven by harmonicas, tuba, drums, guitars, Banjo and a full horn section. Guests play such exotic instruments as the Romanian cimbalom, the banjitar, and the Claviola. Front man Wade Schuman has the appropriately throaty voice of someone who has both hopped freight trains and collaborated with the Throat Singers of Tuva. For the past eight years, the band has been touring in over 40 countries worldwide. They have collaborated/performed with a vast range of artists including Bombino, Kronos Quartet, Cat Empire, the Gangbe Brass band from Benin, and Natalie Merchant. The title track from their first CD BAHAMUT was recently used in the 3D film Pina by Wim Wenders, and currently in a performance by Pina Bausch and the Stuttgart Ballet. Their second CD Cicada was awarded the Charles Cross award in France for best blues album of the Year, and topped number one on the World Music Charts in Europe. Their new CD Extra-Deluxe-Supreme is out on Jaro records in Europe and due out this spring in the U.S.

("Hazmat" is a portmanteau of "hazardous material" and "Modine" is the name of a company that manufactures commercial heaters but may be used to refer to the heater itself.)