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More a performance trio than a band, the HawtPlates make conceptual live vocal works through breaking down and abstracting musical forms that include blues, rock, hip hop, r&b, folk, mantra, gospel, and various vocal traditions from around the world. In hearing their work, there is a sense that the music is specific to them as a family, and that it can only be made by them. By amassing a pantry of sights, ideals, persons, and places, they produce potent tonics and “one pots” hearkening the spirit of the family heirloom recipe.
Sounds like….
OUTKAST, Mahalia Jackson, Kirk Franklin’s Nu Nation, Dirty Projectors, Throbbing Gristle, Georgia Sea Island Singers, and Andy Bey at a family reunion in upstate New York eating at a global soul food buffet, drinking mango lassi.