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Everybody’s favorite nerdy-sexy-commie-girly band (a self-defined genre), they are: Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor - plus, often Ganda Suthivarakom and/or Pameliya Kursten (all vocals).
Current Work: Today, the music primarily springs from three women with an emphasis in the body—voices and vocal percussion, hand claps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. The work grows from diaspora consciousness: both Jewish and African. Stylistically, Charming Hostess incorporates doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan harmony and Andalusian melody. Contemporary influences on the band include Meredith Monk and Reinette l’Oranaise. The music often explores existing text and overlays the composer’s (Jewlia Eisenberg) own questions of authenticity, montage, and the effect of music on non-verbal languages.
The 2002 CD (Trilectic, Tzadik Records) explored the political/erotic nexus of Walter Benjamin and his Marxist muse, Asja Lacis. The 2004 CD (Sarajevo Blues, Tzadik) sets Bosnian poetry by Semezdin Mehmedinović as a form of love and resistance to the brutalization of war.
Early Work: The pre-2002 Charming Hostess (also known as Charming Hostess Big Band) was a rock band that embraced a genderfuck sensibility (the women often wore mustaches while the men wore dresses). Early Charming Hostess music drew on women’s vocal traditions (primarily from Eastern Europe and North Africa), and integrated them with American folk forms both white and black. Charming Hostess was founded in the fertile anarchy of Barrington Co-op (aka Barrington Hall), and nurtured by the West Oakland arts community, along with other coeval bands such as Fibulator and Eskimo.
Current Work: Today, the music primarily springs from three women with an emphasis in the body—voices and vocal percussion, hand claps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. The work grows from diaspora consciousness: both Jewish and African. Stylistically, Charming Hostess incorporates doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan harmony and Andalusian melody. Contemporary influences on the band include Meredith Monk and Reinette l’Oranaise. The music often explores existing text and overlays the composer’s (Jewlia Eisenberg) own questions of authenticity, montage, and the effect of music on non-verbal languages.
The 2002 CD (Trilectic, Tzadik Records) explored the political/erotic nexus of Walter Benjamin and his Marxist muse, Asja Lacis. The 2004 CD (Sarajevo Blues, Tzadik) sets Bosnian poetry by Semezdin Mehmedinović as a form of love and resistance to the brutalization of war.
Early Work: The pre-2002 Charming Hostess (also known as Charming Hostess Big Band) was a rock band that embraced a genderfuck sensibility (the women often wore mustaches while the men wore dresses). Early Charming Hostess music drew on women’s vocal traditions (primarily from Eastern Europe and North Africa), and integrated them with American folk forms both white and black. Charming Hostess was founded in the fertile anarchy of Barrington Co-op (aka Barrington Hall), and nurtured by the West Oakland arts community, along with other coeval bands such as Fibulator and Eskimo.
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Si Veriash La Rana
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Aish Ye K'Dish
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Death Is A Job
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Viva Orduenya
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Expulsion
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Dali Tzerni
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Imam Bey's Mosque
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Klezsex
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Exodus
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The Tunnel
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What Will You Remember
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A Relatively Calm Day
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War
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Adam
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Open Dialogue
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Shoutbox
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epi_gee wrote:
LOVE IT !!!!!
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-cellardoor wrote:
Gorgeous music, I think I like "Klezsex" best.
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Ganimi wrote:
i got this band because i saw that they're from tzadik, so... good shit.
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Malamuitten wrote:
Sexed up Balkan. Mildly interesting.
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Grindfucked wrote:
some of the best, no doubt about that.
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Actopus wrote:
they're doing their job, in deep cover
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CutSelfNot wrote:
Heaven Sitting Down = win
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SexWithMinors wrote:
whyyyyyyy are the 3 singers getting all the dap when the band does all the heavy lifting? it's pretty fucking tough to sit through the acapella stuff.
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sickjunkie wrote:
I LOVED IT ❤
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toy-maker wrote:
i agree!! so underrated... makes me shed a tear lol
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hardton wrote:
like a Marika Hughes voice..
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marlosweb wrote:
ESPETACULAR !!!!!
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Prayermad wrote:
best band everrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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moss_horn wrote:
After learning about this band from listening to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, I can't stop listening XD
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TheSeaWasOurs wrote:
now i want to dance! yeah!
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demaupin wrote:
kuksugaren, check out http://charminghostess.us/shop.html :)
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merzzow wrote:
can someone upload eat and punch ? :)
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Kuksugaren wrote:
where can i get this?
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VGoRiLLaZ wrote:
Underrated!
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drabreu wrote:
I really wanted a ChoHo Big Band DVD...
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Recent Activity
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NihiliFacere, BangMyMomSlowly, wugoo and 4 other people added Charming Hostess to their libraries. Tuesday evening
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alexwijns tagged Charming Hostess with ‘avant-garde’. last week
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Rozcieszka and heinonend added Charming Hostess to their libraries. 10 days ago
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sisterthyme tagged Charming Hostess with ‘experimental’. 22 days ago
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sisterthyme, le_berger and theenticer added Charming Hostess to their libraries. 22 days ago
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havesexwithtree tagged Charming Hostess with nerdy-sexy-commie-girly and womyns music. last month
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Tanzulki, Flaneuses, sinippe and 2 other people added Charming Hostess to their libraries. last month
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lostq tagged Charming Hostess with female vocalists, world, experimental and one other tag. last month
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IanAR connected Charming Hostess to the group Dagmar Krause. last month
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