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VENUE: OLD MARTINEZ HALL

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A HAWK AND A HACKSAW

Volume 8

Inspired by folk music traditions which transcend both borders and language, Jeremy Barnes (of Neutral Milk Hotel) formed A Hawk and A Hacksaw in 2002. The project truly blossomed when he met his partner in music and life, Heather Trost in 2004. The couple went on to make seven albums in which they have explored their love for music from Northern Romania, the Balkans and Turkey. Volume 8, due out on February 5th, 2027, was recorded in four days, with Barnes and Trost as the only contributors, aside from a guest appearance by the wonderful Balkan choir Sevda. It is an album that takes an uplifting universality of spirit and marries it to a cathartic rawness, flourishing in an electrifying celebratory passion, free of time and space. “Many of the traditional songs on this record are very old, probably pre-Christian, and considered Kurdish or Turkish or Armenian depending on who you ask.” Reflects Barnes. “some of our influences have moved further back in time, but the geographic areas are the same.”

Bookending the album are two tracks which sum up the universal and spiritually altruistic vision of Volume 8. The opening song 'Beloved' forms a kind of call to arms, inspired by what Heather describes as a mystical experience visiting Dar al Islam, historic adobe mosque in northern New Mexico.

The closing song, ‘Yes We Love You’ operates as both a statement of intent and as a kind of answer in kind to the 1978 Lebanese pop hit ‘Do You Love Me’ by the Bendaly Family. “We love that song, and when I hear it now, I’m hearing someone ask a much broader question, not a request for romantic love, but for broader, universal love and acknowledgement.” says Jeremy “We wrote a response to it: "Yes, we love you." We love your culture, we admire you and we believe you should be safe, your humanity and culture should be respected. This is a message to the entire Muslim world: We love you, we need you.” Hence to paraphrase a spiritual leader past; if there is a method to a A Hawk and a Hacksaw’s Volume 8, its foundation is love.