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A Hawk and A Hacksaw || Listen

There’s a twinkle of lore in A Hawk and a Hacksaw and the Hun Hangár Ensemble, the limited edition, eight-track EP that follows A Hawk and a Hacksaw’s best album to date, last year’s The Way the Wind Blows. As the band puts it, they “walked into a music store in Budapest, Hungary and walked out with a score of four collaborators versed not only in Hungarian folk, but also…jazz and minimalism.” Béla Ágoston, Zsolt Kürtösi, Ferenc Kovács, and Balázs Unger became the ad hoc Hun Hangár Ensemble, sharing their ancestral repertoire with Hacksaw’s Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost and allowing the two younger musicians to add their own arrangements and ideas. Such obvious cultural immersion may sound disingenuous or self-serving, but it works here and on the accompanying tour diary DVD, finally allowing A Hawk and a Hacksaw the chance to bloom amid a parcel of the folk heritage from which they’ve long drawn. - Pitchfork

with:
Frank Fairfield
Benjamin Wetherill || Listen

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7pm / $12 adv, $14 dos / All ages