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Devin Hoff
Devin Hoff is an American bassist, composer and arranger. Hoff has collaborated with Julia Holter, Nels Cline, Sharon Van Etten, Shannon Lay, Cibo Matto, Kira Roessler, Good For Cows, Xiu Xiu, and others. Hoff has also released three albums of solo and multi-tracked contrabass material—''Solo Bass'' (2009), ''Baile as Baile'' (2019), and ''Sigils'' (2018). Laurie Anderson named ''Solo Bass'' as one of her top 5 favorite albums of all time. Selected discography Devin Hoff - solo * ''Solo Bass'' (2009) * ''Sigils'' (2018) *''Baile as Baile'' (2019) *''Beautiful Radiant Things'' (2019) Caustics * ''Touch'' (2020) Julia Holter * '' Loud City Song'' (2013) * ''In the Same Room'' (2017) * ''Have You in My Wilderness'' (2015) * ''Aviary'' (2018) Shannon Lay * ''Living Water'' (2017) The Nels Cline Singers * ''Instrumentals'' (2002) * '' The Giant Pin'' (2004) * '' Draw Breath'' (2007) * '' Initiate'' (2010) Nels Cline * ''New Monastery'' (2006) * '' Dirty Baby'' (2010) *'' Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Holter
Julia Shammas Holter (born December 18, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, artist and academic, based in Los Angeles. Following three independent album productions, Holter released ''Tragedy'' as her first official studio album in 2011. '' Ekstasis'' followed in 2012. After signing with Domino Records in 2013, she released the albums ''Loud City Song'' (2013), ''Have You in My Wilderness'' (2015) and the live-in-the-studio album '' In the Same Room'' (2017). Most recently, her double album ''Aviary'' was released in 2018. Holter has also collaborated with other musicians, including Nite Jewel, Laurel Halo, Ariel Pink, Ducktails, Linda Perhacs, Michael Pisaro, and Jean-Michel Jarre. Biography Holter was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At age six her family moved to Los Angeles, where she later attended the Alexander Hamilton High School. She studied music at The University of Michigan for four years, graduating with a degree in composition. After s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Initiate (Nels Cline Singers Album)
''Initiate'' is the fourth album by The Nels Cline Singers led by American guitarist Nels Cline which was released in April 2010 on the Cryptogramophone label. Reception The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 4½ stars out of 5, stating "''Initiate'' is the most fully realized project Cline has devoted himself to yet, and extends the musical frontiers the Singers are capable of not only engaging, but conquering". The Guardian's John Fordham rated the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "Don't be deceived by the name – this is really a scorched-earth metal-electronica improvising guitar band that threatens to blow you out of your window... It's pretty fierce, but a contemporary guitar buff's dreamworld". Writing for All About Jazz, Matt Marshall stated "With its combination of studio precision and live energy, Initiate presents the most complete picture available of The Nels Cline Singers". JazzTimes' Mike Shandley noted "The double-CD ''Initiate'' features one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in ''The West Wing'' (2000–06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series ''Nurse Jackie'' (2009–15), and as U.S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show '' For the People'' (2018–19). Smith is a recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2013). In 2015 she was selected as the Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University. Early life Smith was born in 1950 into an African-American family in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Anna Rosalind (née Young), an elementary school principal, and Deaver Young Smith Jr., a coffee merchant. She has four younger siblings. She started attending school shortly after the city had started integrating the public schools, and attended both m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Redman
Joshua Redman (born February 1, 1969) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He is the son of jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman (1931–2006). Life and career Joshua Redman was born in Berkeley, California, to jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer and librarian Renee Shedroff. He is Jewish. He was exposed to many kinds of music at the Center for World Music in Berkeley, where his mother studied South Indian dance. Some of his earliest lessons in music and improvisation were on recorder with gamelan player Jody Diamond. He was exposed at an early age to a variety of musics and instruments and began playing clarinet at age nine before switching to what became his primary instrument, the tenor saxophone, one year later. Redman cites John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley, his father Dewey Redman, as well as the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, the Police and Led Zeppelin as musical influences. Redman graduated from Berkel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Bernstein (musician)
Steven Bernstein (born October 8, 1961) is an American trumpeter, soprano trombone, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer and bandleader from New York City. He is best known for his work in The Lounge Lizards, Sex Mob (band), Sex Mob, Spanish Fly (band), Spanish Fly and the Millennial Territory Orchestra.Layman, Will (2006)A Reluctant 'Jazz' Hero: An Interview with Trumpeter, Composer, and Arranger Steven Bernstein, PopMatters, November 1, 2006. Retrieved November 8, 2014 Sex Mob's 2006 CD ''Sexotica'' was nominated for a Grammy. Bernstein has been the musical director for the Kansas City Band (from Robert Altman's film Kansas City (1996 film), ''Kansas City''), Jim Thirlwell's Steroid Maximus and Hal Wilner's Leonard Cohen, Doc Pomus and Bill Withers projects. Bernstein has released four albums under his own name on John Zorn's Tzadik Records: ''Diaspora Soul'', ''Diaspora Blues'', ''Diaspora Hollywood'' and ''Diaspora Suite''. He has performed with jazz giants including Roswel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wholphin
A wholphin (portmanteau of whale + dolphin) is an extremely rare cetacean hybrid born from a mating of a female common bottlenose dolphin (''Tursiops truncatus'') with a male false killer whale (''Pseudorca crassidens''). The name implies a hybrid of whale and dolphin, although taxonomically, both are within the oceanic dolphin family, which is within the toothed whale parvorder. Wholphins have been born in captivity and have also been reported in the wild. Examples The first recorded wholphin was born in a Tokyo SeaWorld in 1981; he died after 200 days. The first wholphin in the United States and the first to survive was Kekaimalu, born at Sea Life Park in Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ... on May 15, 1985; her name means "from the peaceful ocean". Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Moves
''Mountain Moves'' is the fourteenth studio album by Deerhoof. It was released on September 8, 2017 through Joyful Noise. Production and release Deerhoof announced ''Mountain Moves'' in June 2017. The album was produced by Deerhoof along with the Children of Hoof Radio and Television Orchestra. Although the album was set for a September 8 release, the band made the album available on Bandcamp Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California, US. On March 2, 2022, Bandcamp ... on August 28, with all the proceeds from purchases (before the official release) going to the Emergent Fund. Track listing Charts References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mountain Moves 2017 albums Deerhoof albums Joyful Noise Recordings albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Jane O'Neil
Tara Jane O'Neil (born November 22, 1972) (surname sometimes written as "ONeil"; sometimes credited as TJO) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, audio recording engineer, and visual artist based out of Los Angeles, California, United States. Biography O'Neil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, audio engineer and visual artist. She creates melodic and experimental music under her own name and in collaboration with friends. Her recordings and live performances range from solo singing to noise improvisations. TJO has composed and performed music and sound for films, theater, and dance performances, and written large and small ensemble experimental architectures. O'Neil began her music career as the bass guitarist and vocalist for the influential Louisville, Kentucky post-rock group Rodan. After their breakup in 1994, she moved to New York, where she joined Retsin, Ida Retsin Family (a collaboration between Retsin and Ida), The Sonora Pine, and The Naysayer. She rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miho Hatori
is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician. She is best known as a solo artist, co-founder of New York City band Cibo Matto, and as the first person to provide the voice of Noodle in the virtual band Gorillaz, as well as for her work with the Beastie Boys, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Smokey Hormel, John Zorn, and many more. Biography Hatori expressed an early interest in music while growing up in Japan. She worked at used record shop Flash Disc Ranch in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, where she was exposed to many styles of music and sometimes performed as a club DJ. Her earliest history in a music project dates to 1991 when she joined hip hop group Kimidori; she left the group in 1992. Hatori moved to New York City in 1993 to study art; she quickly met Yuka Honda through performing together in punk/noise band Laito Lychee, a project that featured Hatori on vocals and violin played through distortion effects pedals. Hatori and Honda co-founded Cibo Matto in 1994 and released their d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (; born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Vinicio Capossela and John Zorn. Biography Marc Ribot was born in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in the Montrose section of South Orange, New Jersey. He has worked extensively as a session guitarist. He has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, Caetano Veloso, John Zorn, David Sylvian, Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, The Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay, T-Bone Burnett, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Cibo Matto, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, Tift Merritt, Allen Ginsberg, Foetus, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Susana Baca, The Black Keys, Vinicio Capossela, Alain Bashung, McCoy Tyner, Elton John, Madeleine Peyroux, Marianne Faithfull, Diana Krall, Mike Patton, Stormin’ Norman and Suzy Williams, Neko Case, Joe Henry, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Celestial Septet
''The Celestial Septet'' is an album by The Nels Cline Singers and Rova Saxophone Quartet which was released in March 2010 on the New World label. accessed August 14, 2014 Reception The review by François Couture awarded the album 4 stars out of 5, stating "a thrilling record, and one of Rova's most artistically successful collaborations... ''The Celestial Septet'' features a high level of amalgamation between the two ensembles and, honestly, one wishes for this combination to carry on. Rova and Nels Cline Singers are more than compatible; they complement each other's compositions".Track listing ''All com ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ROVA
Rova may refer to: * Rova, Domžale, a village in the municipality of Domžale in Slovenia * Rova (Madagascar), a type of fortified royal complex found throughout the highlands of Madagascar * Rova of Antananarivo, a royal-palace complex in Antananarivo that served as the seat of government in pre-colonial Madagascar * ROVA, the Rest of Virginia, a term referring to the portion of Virginia not including Northern Virginia * Rova Saxophone Quartet * The Rova ( he, הרובע היהודי, links=no, ''HaRova HaYehudi''), the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem * Rova (app), a digital audio streaming app associated with MediaWorks Radio in New Zealand * Rova (river), Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Russia People with the surname * Adele Rova Adele Rova (born 2 May 1996) is a Fijian swimmer. She competed at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships The 2009 World Aquatics Championships ( it, Campionati mondiali di nuoto 2009) or the XIII FINA World Championships were held in Rome, I .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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