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HAZMAT modine 2008 Tours

We will be touring in Europe extensively in the Spring and the Fall

Stay tuned for updates!

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Bahamut Tour pictures '07

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Wade's Phone picture travel diary

Other Hazmatic News

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)

Please see the slideshow or the picture gallery for more pictures of the tour and our travels, and don't miss Wade's travel diary .

HAZMAT MODINE - BAHAMUT

was featured on NPR - All Things Considered

Alien and Familiar: The Music of Hazmat Modine

Review by Banning Eyre

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

CDs are available online through Barbès Records , CD BABY , CDRoots , and on our own website, HazmatModine.com with paypal.

Buy individual tracks of Bahamut from iTunes

Bahamut is 68 minutes long with 15 tracks and has a fancy 16 page booklet.

contact: wschuman@aol.com or send $15 + $4 for postage to: Wade Schuman P.O. Box 961 Midtown Station New York, NY 10018