Charming Hostess (World/ Avant/ more...)
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Topic: Charming Hostess (World/ Avant/ more...)
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Charming Hostess (World/ Avant/ more...)
Date Posted: December 09 2008 at 16:13
http://www.myspace.com/charminghostess - http://www.myspace.com/charminghostess http://www.charminghostess.us/ - charminghostess.us http://www.klezmershack.com/bands/charming/eat/charming.eat.html - http://www.klezmershack.com/bands/charming/eat/charming.eat.html http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=ch-eat - Ground and Sky review - Charming Hostess - Eathttp://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=ch-punch - Ground and Sky review - Charming Hostess - Punchhttp://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=2329 -http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=2329 - Sea of Tranquility - The Web ...http://gnosis2000.net/reviews/charminghostess.htm - Gnosis2000.net - Charming Hostesshttp://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/charming-hostess/sarajevo-blues.htm - http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/charming-hostess/sarajevo-blues.htm http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/charming_hostess - http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/charming_hostess I'm listening to Sarajevo Blues now; very good. EDIT: I can send some samples to an interested team. Hopefully some of you guys will be familiar with the music (it's listed in a number of Prog sites). And please, share impressions. Thanks. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: December 10 2008 at 15:30
| I heard a few songs from them. Don't they have one or two albums on Recommended? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 10 2008 at 15:40
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Thanks for the response. I don't know if they have albums on Recommended. Here's the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charming_Hostess - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charming_Hostess Charming HostessFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charming Hostess is a band that grew out of the Oakland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-rock - avant-rock scene in the mid-1990's.
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charming_Hostess&action=edit§ion=1 - edit ] Current WorkToday, the music primarily springs from three women with an emphasis in the body--voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. The work grows from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora - diaspora consciousness: both Jewish and African. Stylistically, Charming Hostess incorporates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo-wop - doo-wop , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy - Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan harmony and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusian - Andalusian melody. Contemporary influences on the band include http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Monk - Meredith Monk and Reinette l'Oranaise. The music often explores existing text and overlays the composer's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewlia_Eisenberg - Jewlia Eisenberg ) own questions of authenticity, montage, and the effect of music on non-verbal languages. The 2002 CD (Trilectic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadik_Records - Tzadik Records ) explored the political/erotic nexus of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin - Walter Benjamin and his http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist - Marxist muse, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asja_L%C4%81cis - Asja Lācis . The 2004 CD ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo_Blues - Sarajevo Blues , Tzadik) sets Bosnian poetry by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semezdin_Mehmedinovi%C4%87 - Semezdin Mehmedinović as a form of love and resistance to the brutalization of war. Their self-described genre is "Nerdy-Sexy-Commie-Girly". Charming Hostess is Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor and often Ganda Suthivarakom and Pameliya Kursten (all vocals). [ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charming_Hostess&action=edit§ion=2 - edit ] Early WorkThe pre-2002 Charming Hostess (also known as Charming Hostess Big Band) was a rock band that embraced a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderf**k - genderf**k sensibility (the women often wore mustaches while the men wore dresses). Early Charming Hostess music drew on women's vocal traditions (primarily from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe - Eastern Europe and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa - North Africa ), and integrated them with American folk forms both white and black. Charming Hostess was founded in the fertile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism - anarchy of Barrington Co-op (aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington_Hall - Barrington Hall ), and nurtured by the West Oakland arts community, along with other coeval bands such as Fibulator and Eskimo. Half of Charming Hostess was also in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_Flesh - Idiot Flesh / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepytime_Gorilla_Museum - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum . The final effect was of a hoedown where bodacious babes belted the blues in Bulgarian while a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock - punk - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klezmer - klezmer band rocked out in accompaniment. The genre of this incarnation of ChoHo is described by the band as " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klezmer - klezmer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock - punk / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan - Balkan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk - Funk ". Recordings of Charming Hostess Big Band include "Eat" (Vaccination, 1998) and the new "Punch" (ReR, 2005) Charming Hostess Big Band was: Jewlia Eisenberg (voice, direction), Carla Kihlstedt (voice, fiddle), Nina Rolle (voice, accordion), Wes Anderson (drums), Nils Frykdahl (guitar, flute, saxophone, percussion), and Dan Rathbun (bass). .............................................................................. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 10 2008 at 15:51
| Hey Logan, we'll take a listen but it might be a while. That goes for all RIO/Avant suggests, but please do keep the suggestions coming, and we will get to them. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 10 2008 at 15:58
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No worries; no hurry for an evaluation -- sometimes I post such topics as much because I enjoy the music and want to share the experience as much as get it in the archives. I don't think that this is an easy one (it is folk/ world, klezmer, blues, experimental/ avant with some punk). If you get the time soon though, or anyone, have a listen to The Tunnel -- very enjoyable.
------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 10 2008 at 16:01
| I know James really likes a "klezmer" sound, so it'll be interesting to get his take. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 10 2008 at 16:09
| Actually it turns out they have been cleared for addition. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 10 2008 at 16:20
Cool, I didn't check the charts before. And unanimously (all who voted) cleared for addition at that for RIO/ Avant. I wonder when that was.
------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
