A Hawk and A Hacksaw

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PinDrop Performances and Calling All Enthusiasts Present:

A Hawk and A Hacksaw Live @ St Michael At The Northgate Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford.

With support from C Joynes - http://www.boweavilrecordings.com/joynes.html

New Mexico's A Hawk And A Hacksaw will be playing Oxford's St Michael At The Northgate church as part of a full European tour to support the release of their new album - You Have Already Gone To The Other World: Music Inspired By Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Album released 2nd April 2013 on LM Duplication.

You Have Already Gone To The Other World is the product of their recent tours doing live soundtracking of the unforgettable and inspirational 1964 film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by the legendary Ukranian director Sergey Paradjanov. The evolution of the soundtrack into something that can stand on its own has led to the release of 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.

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