A hawk and a hacksaw Marina di Ravenna

Marina di Ravenna • Concerti • Venerdì 03 Maggio 2013 • Ore 21:30

All'hana bi tutti i concerti sono gratuiti.

E' appena uscito il sesto lavoro di A Hawk and A Hacksaw. Segnato fortemente dall'esperienza della sonorizzazione del capolavoro di Sergej Paradjanov "Le ombre degli avi dimenticati", presentatoa in giro per il mondo nel 2012, "You Have Already Gone to the Other World" è l'ennesimo capolavoro del duo di Albuquerque, Jeremy Barnes (anche batterista di Neutral Milk Hotel) e Heather Trost ed è l’ormai consolidata miscela di estatico folk balcanico, scatenate danze magiare, orchestrine mariachi arse dal sole e sognanti arie mediorientali.

Dicono di loro:

"pezzi del folklore ungherese, romeno e ucraino si mescolano senza soluzione a quelli autografi con un impato talvolta veramente devastante... Quando agli strumenti si aggiungono cori o ha la meglio lo stiramento malinconico il risultato si avvicina alle struggenti operazioni fatte da Matt Elliott... quando invece interviene la voce timida e baluginante di Heather tutto si riconduce in un perimetro più prossimo all'indie..." Stefano Isidoro Bianchi, Blow Up, aprile 2013

"There is a constant stream of music – in the fact the whole history of music – flowing in the upper atmosphere,in what they used to call the 'Aether'. Apparently The Hawks (HAAHS) have managed to mainline a very particular vein of that lofty realm, and now the music of fervid pagans, of revelers, of the intoxicated, the sensualists and the joyful brawlers flows through them effortlessly. They’re riding the snorting steed of Bacchus. Their instruments and their voices are ecstatic swords, swooping with blithe abandon through the soft flesh of the world, killing and then discarding the ordinary and the mundane with an unbridled commitment to joy and mesmeric, gleeful self-immolation. Have fun!" -Michael Gira (Swans)

"I've loved A Hawk and a Hacksaw ever since I first encountered them with the release of their first album. Over the years they've surprised and thrilled me repeatedly - both on record and at their incendiary live shows. I find their music so thrilling, I think, because their music offers many qualities I rarely hear in music either new or old.it embodies a deep ethnographic knowledge of Balkan, Turkish and Eastern European music which contrasts to the magpie-like tokenism of most musicians who claim influence from around the world, but is not afraid to transform those roots into something new; never content to be an homage or museum piece. In a musical climate awash with ironic detachment and self-conscious posing it is a treasure to find music that has the courage of its convictions - that caries such a richness of musical, literary, and broader cultural association. And, as it seems from from getting to know Jeremy and Heather over the years, that is so personal - that embodies so much of who they are. However, this all seems too wordy and worthy to do them justice; above all A Hawk and a Hacksaw make music to be enjoyed viscerally before cerebrally - music that is both beautiful and fun." Dan Snaith, Caribou