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Hazmat Modine “Extra-Deluxe-Supreme” Album Release Hazmat Modine “Extra-Deluxe-Supreme” Album Release

with Alash in collaboration with Sho’Dekeh Talifero

Sat November 2nd, 2013

7:00PM

Main Space

Minimum Age: 18+

Doors Open: 6:00PM

Show Time: 7:00PM

Event Ticket: $16

Day of Show: $20

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Globe trotting New York roots band HAZMAT MODINE recently returned from another world tour – from Borneo to British Columbia via Czech Republic, Germany and Portugal, among other countries. This show offers a first time collaboration with the Tuvan Throat singer ensemble ALASH and the phenomenal Beat Boxer SHO’DEKEH TALIFERO from Baltimore. The musicians met a year ago on the steppes of southern Siberia at a Pan-Siberian Festival in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The combination of African American Beatbox, Tuvan soul music, and New York eclectic roots sound, will be unlike anything you have ever heard. With special surprise guests!
 
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TABLE SEATING POLICY
Table seating is on a first-come, first served basis. If you are seated, you agree to also purchase a minimum of two food and/or beverage items per person. Please arrive early for the best choice of available seats. Seating begins when doors open. Tables are communal so you may be seated with other patrons. We do not take table reservations.
 
There is a standing room area by the bar with no food/drink minimum.
 
All tickets sales are final. No refund or credits.

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Hazmat Modine “Extra-Deluxe-Supreme” Album Release

Ten years ago, Barbès Records released Hazmat Modine’s debut album, Bahamut, which quickly went on to become a cult classic. Pitchfork probably captured it best by describing it as “…roots music that takes from pretty much any roots it sees fit,” and went on to praise the album as “true world music, weird and wonderful to the last note.”
 
Now ten years later, Barbès is releasing Hazmat Modine’s third studio album: Extra-Deluxe-Supreme: an artistic statement that is the culmination of ten years of musical adventures around the world.
 
The new album confirms Hazmat Modine’s place as a band of outsiders oblivious to the rules that govern today’s music scene. The group itself is a heterogeneous collection of musicians with a fondness for odd instruments and an all inclusive view of what constitutes American music. Extra-Deluxe- Supreme is their most classically American album to date. It displays a strong attention to songcraft, inspired by a long line of American songwriters from Tin Pan Alley to Stax and the Brill building.
 
Hazmat’s sound is still defined by their signature tuba and harmonica, augmented by their original horn section, guitars and accordion – plus your usual assortment of marimba, doshpuluur, Igil, railroad spikes, claviola, rocks and cimbalom.
 
Extra-Deluxe-Supreme does away with obvious genre hopping. After ten years of left field collaborations and extensive touring in places as varied as Siberia,Borneo, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand and Turkey, Hazmat Modine seems to have absorbed it all. They have shed any sense of self-consciousness and embraced their own forged identity as an American band with its own idea of what American music means.
 
Hazmat Modine official site
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Alash in collaboration with Sho’Dekeh Talifero

Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xoomei), a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. What distinguishes this gifted trio from earlier generations of Tuvan throat singers is the subtle infusion of modern influences into their traditional music. One can find complex harmonies, western instruments, and contemporary song forms in Alash’s music, but its overall sound and spirit is decidedly Tuvan. Alash members have also been influenced by such Western artists as Sun Ra and Jimi Hendrix. Members of Alash were trained in traditional Tuvan music since childhood. Under the guidance of Kongar-ool Ondar (best known to Western audiences for his role in the film Genghis Blues), they began to forge a new musical identity, experimenting with new harmonies and song structures, producing an intriguing mixture of old and new. Alash has collaborated with such diverse groups as the Sun Ra Arkestra, The Horse Flies, and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
 
This is some of the most beautiful and haunting music I have heard. If you have not heard them, you have no idea how incredible they are.
— Jeff Coffin of the Flecktones and Dave Matthews Band, interviewed onJamBands.com
 
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Sho’dekeh Talifero is a professional beatboxer & vocal percussionist currently working in the Baltimore, MD area & beyond. Boldly taking his craft wherever the passion for music brings him, he works in a number of artistic fields for Dance, Music, & the Visual arts. By channeling the concepts of various instruments & sound scapes, he vocalizes dynamic emulations of everything from drum sets, turntables, ocean waves, to sleigh bells. These abilities and keen musical adaptability have brought him far and wide across many genres & artistic traditions within a very short period of time, which has also allowed him to repeatedly become the first Beat Boxer/Vocal Percussionist to serve in array of creative settings.

Shodekeh is the founding director of “Embody, A Music Series of The Vocal Arts” which strives for artistic & cultural unity through the many vocal traditions of the world from Opera, Throat Singing, to Beat Boxing. He has worked directly with many diverse souls from around the globe including Hip Hop Legend KRS-ONE, Alvin Ailey Theatre Dancers Linda Denise Fisher-Harrell & Troy Powell, and the Tuvan band Alash.

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