hazmat modine Aug2013

HAZMAT
MODINE
Hazmat Modine is a band of unwanted sounds, lost instruments,
and cultural miscegenation that reflect the origins of the
American musical soul.
"If you want to be faithful to the music
forms that made American music great, you
have to be faithful to what made it great, not
to the music forms themselves. American
music is, by its essence, music that comes out
of the so-called melting pot of different
cultures banging up against each other."
- WADE SCHUMN, Founder / leader Hazmat Modine
Hazmat Modine seamlessly integrates primal, guttural blues, funky, unadulterated old school R&B and myriad sounds
from other cultures, absorbed during their constant touring in more than 20 different countries across the world. A blues 'n' brass blast
into the beyond!
The band is fronted by two harmonicas
which use call and response, harmony,
melody, and syncopated interweaving
rhythms. The band includes tuba,
guitar, and percussion, claviola and
Hawaiian steel guitar. Hazmat Modine
draws from the rich soil of American
music, blending elements of early
Blues, Hokum Jugband, Swing,
Klezmer, New Orleans R & B, and
much more. Beyond its central role
in the band, the harmonica is a
metaphor for the music they play. The
small diatonic harmonica was
popularized in Germany as a folk
instrument, almost a toy. It was sold in
massive quantities and was affordable
to American Southerners, both
African-American and
European-American. “They pulled from
it things it was never meant to do,”
explains Schuman. “Bending a note is an accident of physics, creating that
glissando blue note. An instrument designed for one thing is used in a
different way, and a new music form is invented for it.”
Hazmat Modine 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.
[
"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.
http://www.hazmatmodine.com/
AVAILS: YEAR-ROUND
TERRITORY: NORTH AMERICA
LINE-UP: 8
BOOKING CONTACT: melp@fliArtists.com
www.FLiArtists.com
melp@FLiArtists.com
]