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Reviews (4)
Northern Transmissions
d. 15. Apr. 2018
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Owen Maxwell
d. 15. Apr. 2018
"For their latest sonic exploration A Hawk And A Hacksaw perfectly recreate the Eastern sound palette. Though they emulate the sounds and energy perfectly there isn't always the right character or new ideas to make it fresh. Though this is very decidedly a niche record for fans of the Eastern traditional music they're pulling from, those who enjoy that will find it wonderful".
Spectrum culture
d. 29. Apr. 2018
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Hollister Dixon
d. 29. Apr. 2018
"Despite the duo's technical proficiency, A Hawk and a Handsaw's tendency to stay within traditional forms can feel stagnant. Forest Bathing rarely innovates enough to grab you and may function better as background music for a meandering road trip or your own "forest bathing" experience. That may well be the spirit of an album whose songs seem to ask to be taken out into nature, inviting interplay with the elements much as the musicians bring together the sounds of unfamiliar traditions in a kind of organic unity".
musicOMH
d. 13. Apr. 2018
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Chris White
d. 13. Apr. 2018
""Forest Bathing" is another meticulously crafted, immersive piece of work from two uniquely open-eared artists who continue to belie their American roots by producing music that feels inescapably, authentically of places thousands of miles from their origins".
fRoots
2018 Summer
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John Pheby
2018 Summer
"All of the sounds collected and expanded upon here are unmistakably and thorougly rooted in the forest of Central Europe and the Balkans. Jeremy Barnes plays the persian santur hammered dulcimer in opener Alexandria, creating a pefectly subtle but unmistakable route through Heather Trost's idiosyncratic synthesis of Balkan and Central European melodies and her intoxicating spirals of string and woodwind. this music may have been learned in back streets, honed in cafés and history, but the urban an the artificial has been carefully sifted and removed".