Getting to know you: A HAWK AND A HACKSAW
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW began as a solo project for Neutral Milk Hotel drummer Jeremy Barnes who played all instruments on the projects debut LP before enlisting a cadre of musicians for subsequent releases, among them musical life partner violinist Heather Trost. The pair have scoured the globe to be influenced by and inspired in, creating wondrous Balkan inflected Eastern European folk.
Barnes traveled to Romania to record with Gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia, lived in Budapest, Hungry for 2 years with Trost, playing with the Hun Hangár Ensemble, resulting in the acclaimed A Hawk and a Hacksaw & the Hun Hangar Ensemble EP and its follow-up, Deliverance. After years of releasing albums on the UK’s The Leaf Label, the duo’s latest album, Cervantine, was released on the group’s own L.M. Dupli-cation label.
Outside of A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Albuquerque residents, Barnes and Trost met fellow New Mexican Zach Condon, working together on Beirut’s debut album, Gulag Orkestar.