It features guest performances from Stephanie and Chris Hladowski. Duplication, and released their fifth album, Cervantine, in February 2011. In 2010, Barnes and Trost started their own label, L.M. It includes collaborations with a number of Hungarian folk musicians, including Ferenc Kovács, Balázs Ungar, and Kálmán Balogh.

ĭélivrance was recorded in Budapest, Hungary and released in 2009. Barnes and Trost lived in Budapest for two years. In 2007, they were awarded a grant by the CMN branch of the UK Arts Council, which enabled them to do a collaborative tour of the UK with the Hungarian folk group The Hun Hangár Ensemble, coinciding with the release of a collaborative EP. The band's third record, The Way the Wind Blows (released in 2006), was partially recorded in the small Romanian village of Zece Prăjini, and features members of the brass band Fanfare Ciocărlia. They also played on the first Beirut album, Gulag Orkestar. In 2005, the band met Zach Condon of the band Beirut and gave his bedroom recordings to the small independent label, Ba Da Bing Records. It was during the recording of this album that Barnes met Trost and that the band became a duo. In March 2005 the band released their second album Darkness at Noon, recorded in England, the Czech Republic and New Mexico. It provided the soundtrack for the documentary Zizek!, directed by Astra Taylor, which features Slovenian cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. The band's self-titled first album recorded by Barnes in the south of France, was released in 2002. While Barnes lived in Chicago, he found himself in a Ukrainian area with many people from Eastern Europe and began to develop an interest in Romanian folk music. The first four albums and an EP were released on The Leaf Label and afterwards on their own label L.

They have released six albums and have toured internationally. The music is inspired by Eastern European, Turkish and Balkan traditions, and is mostly instrumental. The band consists of accordionist Jeremy Barnes, who was previously the drummer for Neutral Milk Hotel and Bablicon, and violinist Heather Trost.

Heather Trost and Jeremy Barnes of A Hawk and a Hacksaw, performing in 2009Ī Hawk and a Hacksaw is an American folk duo from Albuquerque, New Mexico, currently signed to L.M.

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