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Devra Hoff

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Devra Hoff
BornColorado
Occupation(s)composer, bassist
Member ofSharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, Mendoza Hoff Revels
Websitedevrahoff.bandcamp.com

Devra Hoff is an American bassist, composer, and arranger.[1][2] She is a member of Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory[3] and co-founder of Mendoza Hoff Revels with Ava Mendoza.[1]

Career

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Hoff composed work for the Wholphin short film Look at the Sun,[4] performed on the soundtrack for Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy, and released three albums of solo and multi-tracked contrabass material: Solo Bass (2009), Baile as Baile (2019), and Sigils (2018).[5] Laurie Anderson named Solo Bass as one of her top 5 favorite albums of all time.[6] In 2021, Kill Rock Stars released Hoff's Voices From the Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs), an album of works by English folk singer Anne Briggs; arranged and with bass performances by Hoff, the release features artists including Julia Holter, Shannon Lay, Sharon Van Etten, Emmett Kelly, and Jim White.[2] Hoff's many other collaborators include Nels Cline, Cibo Matto,[7] Kira Roessler,[8] and Xiu Xiu,[7] and she has released several albums with Ches Smith as Good for Cows.[9]

Selected discography

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Solo

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Year Title Label
2008 Solo Bass[10]
2018 Sigils Stoned To Death
2019 Baile as Baile Devil Hoof
2025 Solve, Coagula Switch Hit

As leader and co-leader

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Year Artist Title Label Personnel
2001 Good for Cows Good for Cogs Evander Music Hoff, Smith
2003 Good for Cows Less Than or Equal To Free Porcupine Society Hoff, Smith
2004 Redressers To Each According... Hoff, Smith, Marika Hughes, Carla Kihlstedt
2004 Good for Cows Bebop Fantasy Asian Man Hoff, Smith
2008 Good for Cows 10th Anniversary Concert Bleeding Ear Hoff, Smith
2010 Good for Cows Audumla Web of Mimicry Hoff, Smith
2018 AwkWard In Progress Hoff, Kira Roessler
2020 Caustics Touch Deathbomb Arc / Moone Hoff, Yasi Perera, Josiah Wolf, John Dieterich[11]
2021 Hoff Voices From the Empty Moor[2] Kill Rock Stars Hoff ft. Van Etten, Holter, Wiley, Lay, Farha, Kelly, White[5]
2023 Mendoza Hoff Revels Echolocation[12] AUM Fidelity Hoff, Ava Mendoza, Smith, James Brandon Lewis

As sideperson

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Year Artist Title Label
2002 The Nels Cline Singers Instrumentals[13] Cryptogramophone
2003 Carla Bozulich (ft. Willie Nelson) The Red Headed Stranger DiCristina Stair Builders
2004 The Nels Cline Singers The Giant Pin[14] Cryptogramophone
2005 Xiu Xiu La Forêt 5 Rue Christine
2006 Xiu Xiu The Air Force 5 Rue Christine
2006 Nels Cline New Monastery[15] Cryptogramophone
2006 Ben Goldberg Quintet The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact Cryptogramophone
2006 Howard Wiley Angola Project
2006 Odessa Chen Ballad of Paper Ships
2007 The Nels Cline Singers Draw Breath[16] Cryptogramophone
2007 Frith, Ochs, Johnston, Hoff, Smith Reasons for Moving Not Two
2007 Sean Hayes Flowering Spade
2008 Halvorson, Pavone, Smith, Hoff Calling All Portraits Skycap
2008 Steven Bernstein Diaspora Suite Tzadik
2009 Evangelista The Prince of Truth
2010 Nels Cline Dirty Baby[17] Cryptogramophone
2010 ROVA + The Nels Cline Singers The Celestial Septet New World
2010 The Nels Cline Singers Initiate[18] Cryptogramophone
2010 Sean Hayes Run Wolves Run
2011 Odessa Chen The Archives
2012 Xiu Xiu Always Polyvinyl
2013 Julia Holter Loud City Song Domino
2015 Julia Holter Have You in My Wilderness Domino
2016 Nels Cline Lovers[19] Blue Note
2017 Deerhoof Mountain Moves Joyful Noise
2017 Tara Jane O'Neil Tara Jane O'Neil Gnomonsong
2017 Julia Holter In the Same Room Domino
2017 Xiu Xiu Forget Polyvinyl
2017 Shannon Lay Living Water Woodsist / Mare
2018 New Optimism Amazon To LeFrak Phantom Limb
2018 Miss Information Sequence Pioneer Works
2018 Julia Holter Aviary Domino
2018 Marc Ribot Songs of Resistance Anti-
2018 David Lord Forest Standards
2019 Xiu Xiu Girl with Basket of Fruit Polyvinyl
2019 Ether Feather Devil Shadowless Hand
2021 Shannon Lay Geist[20] Sub Pop
2022 Sharon Van Etten We've Been Going About This All Wrong Jagjaguwar
2024 Julia Holter Something in the Room She Moves Domino

References

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  1. ^ a b West, Michael J. (December 18, 2024). "Musicians of Mendoza Hoff Revels love the weird parts of jazz and rock". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 18, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Rogers, Jude (November 26, 2021). "Devin Hoff: Voices from the Empty Moor review – stellar lineup for the twists of Anne Briggs". The Guardian. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  3. ^ Paul, Larisha (October 23, 2024). "Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory Announce Debut Album, Tour". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  4. ^ "Devin Hoff". LPR. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  5. ^ a b Sawle, Chris (November 8, 2021). "Album review: Devin Hoff – 'Voices From The Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs)': the canon of the Notts folk free spirit judiciously reinvented". Backseat Mafia. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  6. ^ CAS (February 9, 2021). "Laurie Anderson's Top Five Albums of All Time". Classic Album Sundays. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Devin Hoff". New Music USA. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  8. ^ Cohan, Brad (February 14, 2019). "Bass Wars". Rock and Roll Globe. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  9. ^ "Ches Smith & Devin Hoff (Good for Cows) w/ Mary Halverson, Jessica Pavone and Zs". Roulette. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  10. ^ Chandler, Tom (October 22, 2008). "Devin Hoff: Solo Bass". East Bay Express. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  11. ^ "Stream Caustics' Touch - The Wire". The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
  12. ^ Kitching, Sean (October 12, 2023). "Mendoza Hoff Revels: Echolocation". The Quietus. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  13. ^ Reid, Brendan (November 6, 2002). "Instrumentals: The Nels Cline Singers". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  14. ^ Greenlee, Steve (July 13, 2022). "The Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin (Cryptogramophone)". JazzTimes. Archived from the original on July 14, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  15. ^ Milkowski, Bill (December 1, 2006). "Nels Cline: New Monastery". JazzTimes. Archived from the original on June 14, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  16. ^ Leitko, Aaron (October 19, 2007). "Draw Breath: The Nels Cline Singers". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  17. ^ Corroto, Mark (November 21, 2010). "Nels Cline: Dirty Baby". All About Jazz. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  18. ^ Tangari, Joe (April 16, 2010). "The Nels Cline Singers: Initiate". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  19. ^ Sullivan, Mark (September 23, 2016). "Nels Cline: Lovers". All About Jazz. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
  20. ^ Madden, Emma (October 12, 2021). "Shannon Lay: Geist". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
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