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Dolittle presents

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW

April 23rd , The Workmans Club

Tickets on sale Monday January 14th from www.tickets.ie and Ticketmaster outlets Nationwide

“So ebullient and full of character that by the time it’s over you feel like you’ve caught a glimpse of the type of joyful festivity that always feels most rewarding after a long journey” – Pitchfork

“A cheerfully exuberant fusion based around Hungarian instrumental style, but including a bit of everything, from a Greek melody to echoes of Mexican Mariachi brass and what sounds like a rhythmic off-kilter funeral march that would impress Tom Waits” – The Guardian


New Mexico's A Hawk And A Hacksaw announce a new double album on their self-run label LM Duplication. You Have Already Gone To The Other World: Music Inspired By Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors will be released on March 25th, with tour dates around the UK and Europe to follow in April (see below).

Started as a solo project in 2000 by accordionist and drummer Jeremy Barnes (former member of indie rock legends Neutral Milk Hotel) and named after a line in Cervantes’ Don Quixote, A Hawk and A Hacksaw became a duo in 2004 when Barnes met violinist Heather Trost. The pair began an adventure that took them to Budapest, Hungary where they lived for two years and met/toured with some of the region’s finest folk musicians, as well as countless US & European tours both on their own and with big names includingPortishead, Calexico and fellow New Mexico resident Beirut (whose Gulag Orkestar album they performed on and helped bring to wider attention). Joined by an ever expanding and contracting line-up of musicians, AHAAH seeks to create and document an ecstatic sound much like the village bands of old, with the communal aspect of folk tradition and musicianship the key factor.


In 2012, Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost scored a live soundtrack to the unforgettable and inspirational 1964 film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by the legendary Ukranian director Sergey Paradjanov. They took the soundtrack on tour, accompanying the film live, and performed in cinemas and theatres. New double album You Have Already Gone To The Other World: Music Inspired By Paradjanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors(released March 2013) is the product of those tours and the evolution of the soundtrack into something that can stand on its own: a record of new compositions and traditional folk tunes that have been inspired by the surreal folk magic of the film, sprinkled with the wondrous music and foley from this piece of cinematic history.

Produced by John Dieterich of Deerhoof, this is the first AHAAH album in a long time on which its two primary members, Barnes and Trost, play pretty much every last note (save for a couple of Dieterich guitar cameos). Yet the instrumentation is far from minimal, and the songs often explode into the rich ornamentation that one would expect from the band. Dieterich’s production values and sense of experimentation have elevated AHAAH into new territories of folk psychedelia, with the band’s own personality colouring the traditional forms they explore with such joy like never before. It’s also the bands most dynamic album since they began their Eastern European adventure, with the thundering percussion and dramatic arcs of violin on the title track being counterpointed by majestic solo pieces for hammer dulcimer (Where no horse neighs, and no crow flies) and piano (The Snow in Kryvorivnya), stately organ-led processionals (O Lord, Saint George, bewitch Ivan, make him mine) and original sound and melodies from the film woven in throughout.

The setting of Shadows... (pastoral Ukraine, high in the Carpathanian mountains), and its mix of pagan echoes of pre-Christian Europe, traditional Orthodox Ukrainian rituals, the blood feuds and drama of an isolated village, good and evil, magic and love, have inspired A Hawk and A Hacksaw to push their music in those directions. These recordings address the sound of a sorcerer riding his horse through a lightning storm; a fight in a tavern (not with knives, but axes); the voyage into the afterlife; traditional Ukrainian weddings and funerals; and the horses of fire, a stampede of blood red stallions that fly through the screen in the film when main character Ivan's father is stabbed to death in the snow.

A Hawk And A Hacksaw tour Europe and April as a duo in March and April.

http://"http://ahawkandahacksaw.net/"http://ahawkandahacksaw.net/



For further info / images / interview requests please contact Julie at [email protected]





 

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