Charming Hostess is having a CD release party for the music of The Bowls Project, just out on Tzadik! Yay! We have a lot to celebrate at this show: The Bowls Project dome is a force for good, Marika is back in town, and the women from the Real Vocal String Quartet will be playing with us. So rock this Sunday by listening to crazy devil music with Charming Hostess and then dancing with wild abandon to Watcha Clan!

The Bowls Project is an ecstatic investigation into sex, magic and secret desires in the Babylonian Jewish women’s amulets known as demon bowls. Demon bowl inscriptions are about secrets of the home: love and sensuality; angels and demons; and the trials and joys of daily life. The Bowls Project explores the opens up a conversation between these ancient amulet texts and American traditional music with the same preoccupations, inhabiting a space we call “the apocalyptic intimate.”

CD Release Party for The Bowls Project
Charming Hostess and Watcha Clan
Sunday July 18
8PM
Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA
$25
ChoHo plays first

Want to order tickets to the show?
http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=11192

Want to order a CD?
http://charminghostess.com/shop.html

Can’t come to the Bowls Project installation but you want to share a secret of the home?
http://thebowlsproject.com/

Want to know more about The Bowls Project installation?
http://www.charminghostess.us/projects.html

Want to be a dome docent?
Write us here: charming@charminghostess.com

Who is on the CD?
Charming Hostess:
Jewlia Eisenberg: vocals, dulcimer
Marika Hughes: vocals, cello
Cynthia Taylor: vocals
Jason Ditzian: clarinets
Shahzad Ismaily: bass, percussion
Ches Smith: drums, electronics
Honored Guests:
Marc Ribot: guitar
Jenny Scheinman: violin
Megan Gould: violin
Jessica Troy: viola
Nils Frykdahl: vocals
Dawn McCarthy: vocals
Ganda Suthivarakom: vocals
Boris Martzinovsky: accordion
Aaron Kierbel: tar
Nir Waxman: beatbox