Cargo Records

• FOCUS ON: Charming Hostess

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• Label: Tzadik >>
• Genre: Avant Garde/Experimental

Three women in a whirl of eerie harmony, hot rhythm and radical braininess.

The music is intensely physical, rooted in the body--voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. We live where Jewish and African diasporas collide, incorporating doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan harmony and Andalusian melody. Our music is deeply engaged with text and with questions of authenticity, montage, and the effect of music on non-verbal languages.

Last CD (Trilectic, Tzadik) explored the political/erotic nexus of Walter Benjamin and his Marxist muse with humor and sensuality. The new CD (Sarajevo Blues, Tzadik) sets Bosnian poetry as a form of love and resistance to the brutalization of war. Charming Hostess was founded by Jewlia Eisenberg to make ambitious music for voices and rock out at the same time.


Ther genre might best be described as
NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLY
Charming Hostess: Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Cynthia Taylor and often Ganda Suthivarikom and Pameliya Kursten (all voices)