Past, Adjunct & Intermittent HAZMATICIANS
Scott Robinson, Randy Weinstein, Reut Regev, Rachelle Garniez, David Grego, Kiku Collins, Henry Bogdan, Jon Sholle, Alex Fedoriouk, Josh Camp, William "Beaver" Bausch
Influences
Desmond Dekker, Lee Dorsey, Jaybird Coleman, Fanfare Ciocarlia (Iag Bari), Toots & the Maytalls, Taraf de Haidouks, Jimmie Rogers, Huun-Huur-Tu, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan,
Cold Shot/Snatch and the Poontangs, Irving Berlin, Olu Dara, Bob Wills & the Texas, Willie Hood, Playboys, Skip James, Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart, Alvin Robinson, Ronnie Barron, the Ethiopians, Abdel Gadir Salim, Leonard Cohen, Willie Brown, The Golden Gate Quartet, The Dixie Humingbirds, Wilmouth Houdini, etc...
We will be touring in Europe from June through August.
Stay tuned for updates!
March 7
Hazmat Modine played with Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra at Le Poisson Rouge. In case you missed the concert, here are some images of the night.
Please view a recent interview by Rick Webb for bluesinLondon.com
Last Fall we finished recording the soundtrack for a Japanese documentary 1/1111 by Kenichi Oguri about the Chicago gangster Tokyo Joe. The film is to be released Summer 2008.
The French/German TV Program ARTE filmed HAZMAT modine in New York this last Fall for a program about the Berlin Jazz Festival.
BAHAMUT was number two and three respectively on the World Music Charts in Europe last summer, and was awarded number 11 in the top 15 World music CDs of the year 2007.
Hazmat modine was nominated for the BBC Radio 3 Awards For World Music. Other nominees featured some of the best music artists from around the globe including acclaimed Franco-Spanish punk maverick Manu Chao, nomadic Malian bluesmen Tinariwen and Algerian rocker Rachid Taha.
Illustration above courtesy Carolyn Ridsdale for the Amsterdam weekly
On our tour this past summer we visited:
Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Iceland, Canada, Austria, Germany
Russia, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
And Michael Gomez grew a third leg, which is very useful for travel ... (see above)
HAZMAT MODINE plays the kind of Blues one might have found in a whorehouse in New Orleans had the city been built on the Black Sea somewhere alongside Macao and inhabited by Gypsies. The band is driven by a pair of dueling Harmonicas, backed by Tuba, Drums, Guitars, and Trumpet with the addition of special guests playing exotic instruments such as the Claviola, the Cymbalum or the Chinese mouth-organ, the Bass Sax and the Normaphone. Frontman Wade Schuman, has the appropriately throaty voice of someone who has both hopped freight trains and collaborated with the Throat Singers of Tuva (really...). In addition to his own material the band cover tunes by Slim Gaillard, Jimmy Rogers, Jaybird Coleman, and Irving Berlin. ~ Barbes Records
Hello HAZMAT European fans! Pam (the Trumpet player) here, with some disappointing news that I can't join the Band on this Summer's tour...I fell off a ladder and am recovering from back surgery- They put metal rods in my spine, so I can't play for a while... We got the fine trombonist Reut Regev to fill out the horn section, so come on out and hear Hazmat Modine this Summer!!! I can't wait to play for you again. -Pam
Son of Dave is sadly not going to Trowtbridge, U.K., Wherever the hell that is. He will be preoccupied with writing a new album and staying up late studying world domination.
Illustration above courtesy Carolyn Ridsdale for the Amsterdam weekly
