CHARMING HOSTESS ‘ Feast: Eat & Punch Fusion’ LP

Description

Charming Hostess is at the intersection of voice, text and diaspora consciousness. Founded by Jewlia Eisenberg, their mission is to make lovely noise about complex ideas. She draws primarily from the sounding body: voices and winds, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. Individual voices and communal experiences come together to create a dialogic, multi-faceted whole. Charming Hostess has played all over the world. Charming Hostess centers on three voices, most often, Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, and Cynthia Taylor.

A vinyl “Feast” of songs from from the heady days of “Eat” and “Punch” when Charming Hostess was a rock band that blended eerie harmonies, complex rhythms, and a playfulness about gender. Charming Hostess draws on women’s vocal traditions (primarily from Eastern Europe and North Africa), and integrates them with American folk forms both white and black. A hoedown where bodacious babes belt the blues in Bulgarian while a punk-klezmer band rocks out in accompaniment. The genre of this incarnation of ChoHo is KLEZMER-PUNK/BALKAN-FUNK. Bits of “Eat” (Vaccination, 1998) washed down with some “Punch” (ReR, 2005).

More info: https://www.charminghostess.com/music