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HuDost’s is an experimental Indie world rock musical ensemble from Montreal and New York. HuDost has toured the globe and contemporaneously studied the astounding musical styles that they encountered in different locations; tracing their genealogy to its musical roots. HuDost has just finished recording their latest album ‘Trapeze’ with Grammy Award winning producer Malcolm Burn (Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois, Kaki King).
About
HuDost's core musicians are singer/songwriters Moksha Sommer from Montreal and Jemal Wade Hines from New York.
What commenced as an acoustic duo project quickly developed into a fully produced ensemble with Dan Walters on bass, George Tortorelli on flutes, Julian Douglas, John de Kadt and Michael Rutherford on percussion and other occasional guests. HuDost functions as a duo or a collective, incorporating musicians of varying sensibilities and backgrounds, and often including performance art, video installation and dance.
HuDost’s material is best described as experimental Indie world rock. Their original work ranges in style from 'Alternative World Music' to their own 'Country and Eastern' fusion, merged with an atmospheric, rich, experimental sound. This is mixed with the rich, eclectic blending of traditional Sufi music, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian and Balkan folk music, Farsi, Turkish, Arabic, Folk, Pop and Rock. Their sound crosses all borders and barriers, taking the listener on a journey they will not soon forget.
HuDost has toured throughout the US, Canada and Europe, including shows in Turkey, and have performed extensively on the east coast doing shows at Alex Grey’s CoSM in NYC, the Salvador Dali Museum, the Shakori Grassroots Festival, Omega Institute, Rumi Festival, The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and many others. HuDost has also opened for the California Guitar Trio and Jefferson Starship and have worked with Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Neko Case and Mercan Dede.
HuDost have put the finishing touches on their third album, produced by Grammy award winner Malcolm Burn (Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois). It was released May 12th, 2009. They have also released a six song ‘Royal Mountain EP’ featuring two songs from the upcoming album and four B-sides. Moksha Sommer created a program featuring HuDost's music for nationally broadcast CBC’s ‘Outfront’, which was aired May 26th, 2009. The program also discussed her process of creating the new album in the midst of preparing to undergo brain surgery.
Their debut CD, titled 'In an Eastern Rose Garden', was released in 2005 and received rave reviews. CDBaby says about HuDost’s debut album: “These beautiful atmospheric, warm and resonant songs weave the evocative… With stylistic colors of folk and pop presented with the colorful harmonic vocabulary of the East, this album delicately pairs the two art forms with great success.”
In a review of HuDost’s 2006 release ‘Seedling’, CHRONOGRAM Magazine said “HuDost has a folk quality yet is quite post-modern; the band offers new takes on ancient words and melodies, cross-cultural hybrid transcendental chill-out music with an edge. (The album will even be agreeable to those whose spiritual music is punk.)… This is not fluffy new-age music—it's serious, complex fare with no aversion to addressing agony. Sommer's vocal execution is precisely orchestrated, her voice-opening, hollow-toned vortexes piercing through the tough spots. This album is a journey of music and spirit.”



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