Reviews and News
Source: Seattle Weekly "Best of Seattle Readers' Picks"
Published July 26 - August 1, 2001
Best New Local Band
Hanuman's style is "acoustic free folk funk"--this according to their Web site, www.hanumanmusic.com. Frankly, we've never heard of that, nor of them, but apparently they're on the jam-band bandwagon which, according to Paul De Barros of The Seattle Times, is focused on "organic development and human scale venues" and is "the soundtrack for the Green Party and the anti-globalization crowd." OK, we're not sure what that means, either. (What is a "human scale venue"?) But we downloaded some MP3s from Hanuman's site, and we gotta admit, their stuff's kinda catchy. Let's call it bluegrass-meets-jazz-meets-country-twang . . . meets African. It's complex. Folksy. Fun. Check it out.
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