A Hawk and a Hacksaw

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Buried Bones present

A Hawk and a Hacksaw

plus Special Guests Frisk Frugt & Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides

New Mexico's A Hawk And A Hacksaw today 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).

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. You Have Already Gone To The Other World is the product of those tours and the evolution of the soundtrack into something that can stand on its own: a double album 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.

View a trailer here: http://vimeo.com/20045770

Frisk Frugt - Danish for "fresh fruit" - is the work of Anders Lauge Meldgaard, a native of Aalborg, DK, currently dwelling in Berlin. A multi-instrumentalist who loads up his optimist's dinghy full of saxophones, self-made mechanical instruments and other inspired sound gadgets, Frisk Frugt sets sail on music's diverse waves of opportunity. His imagination is boundless and his music follows ... live, whether it's skeletal folk with toy parrots, minimalist church organ recitals, free jazz firestorms or ensemble shows alive with percussive possibilities, he stretches and tweaks his open source music into thrilling new shapes, always with a sense of wonder and spontaneous relish His album Dansktoppen møder Burkina Faso i det himmelblå rum hvor solen bor, suite, released in late 2012 by UK label Exotic Pylon, was heavily informed by a long musical journey of discovery around the great West African countries of Mali and Burkina Faso, armed with a tapere!
corder and a workbook. African melody, rhythms and ritual dance meld into pop chaos and elegiac homespun folksong and poetry.

Throwing in snatches of quirky/jerky rock, desert recordings, 21st century buzzes both natural and electronic, high-life guitar, pure pop song and bracing free jazz, it's clear that Frisk Frugt finds pleasure in both small details and big gestures.

http://thequietus.com/articles/11317-frisk-frugt-dansktoppen-mder-burkina-faso-i-det-himmelbl-rum-hvor-solen-bor-suite-review

Sound artists and improvisors Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols are part wild horses mane on both sides. Their collected sounds form an infinite cache of fragments that rouse an immaterial earthiness and fortuitous connections to surroundings are created in a chance encounter with sound.

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