Fusing the music of the balkans with american folk, klezmer, roma and turkish music and western pop, A Hawk and A Hacksaw have created something fresh, exciting and exuberant. The album was partly recorded in a remote Romanian village with members of Fanfare Ciocarlia, the gypsy brass band who recently picked up the award for best european artist at the BBC radio 3 world music awards. Beirut's Zach Condon also appears on 'The Way the Wind Blows'.LP - The reissue is limited to 300 copies on 140 Gram white vinyl, most of which went into the Leaf Box Set and is packaged with a CD for the first time. Sleeve artwork is exact repro of original LP release, with the Leaf 20 logo spot varnished on front cover.
Fusing the music of the balkans with american folk, klezmer, roma and turkish music and western pop, A Hawk and A Hacksaw have created something fresh, exciting and exuberant. The album was partly recorded in a remote Romanian village with members of Fanfare Ciocarlia, the gypsy brass band who recently picked up the award for best european artist at the BBC radio 3 world music awards. Beirut's Zach Condon also appears on 'The Way the Wind Blows'.LP - The reissue is limited to 300 copies on 140 Gram white vinyl, most of which went into the Leaf Box Set and is packaged with a CD for the first time. Sleeve artwork is exact repro of original LP release, with the Leaf 20 logo spot varnished on front cover.