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Secrets of the Apocalyptic Intimate
WHAT IS THE BOWLS PROJECT? Learn all the details about the interactive sound sculpture/immersive performance installation created by visionary composer Jewlia Eisenberg with her ensemble Charming Hostess. And, visit the site to become a part of the Bowls Project: Send us a secret!
Jewlia
Eisenberg
Founder, bandleader, and composer. Complete CV.
Ganda
Suthivarikom
Ganda takes it on at her blog "Eating
& Complaining in NYC". Two part series on recent
ChoHo tour includes a run in with the law.
Scott
Amendola
"Amendola, certainly the most accomplished and inventive drummer,...
maintains a constant flurry of percussive sounds - drums, cymbals, tom-toms
- smoothly shifting dynamics and rhythmic...
Dan
Rathbun
Dan Rathbun is a musician, instrument builder, and sculptor of sound. Dan played for 12 years as a core member of the rock circus "Idiot Flesh" and for 8 years with "Charming Hostess". Sleepytime Gorilla Museum employs several of his self-made musical instruments. Dan co-owns Polymorph Recording and has produced and recorded countless CD's and records in a wide range of styles. Dan has worked with Shinichi Iova-Koga since 1996 and is a founding member of the performance collective known as inkBoat.
Ariela
Morgenstern
"A champion of a wide variety
of vocal music, Morgenstern performs regularly with the San
Francisco Chamber Singers, a professional ensemble dedicated to the
performance of new works. In addition, she recently toured the San Francisco
Bay Area and New York with Jewlia Eisenberg's avant-garde a cappella group,
Charming Hostes.
Carla
Kihlstedt
" Carla Kihlstedt is a founding member of both Tin
Hat Trio, (an accordion-violin-guitar trio), and of the art-rock band
Sleepytime
Gorilla Museum. Most recently, Carla is working on a solo project,
Two Foot Yard, using
both her violin and her voice simultaneously. She was one of three singers
in the band Charming Hostess for six years...
Nils
Frykdahl
The 90's saw many tours of a portable Idiot Flesh around the US and work
with a related ethnomusicalogical group: Charming Hostess. The close
of the millenium saw the founding of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and the
music/theater duo -
The Faun Fables.
Shahzad
Ismaily
Shahzad holds a masters degree in biochemistry and is a largely self-taught musician, having mastered the electric and double bass, guitar, banjo, accordion, flute, drums, various percussion instruments and various analog synthesizers and drum machines. Ismaily has recorded or performed with an incredibly diverse assemblage of musicians, including Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Laura Veirs, Bonnie Prince Billy, Faun Fables, Secret Chiefs 3, John Zorn, Elysian Fields, Shelley Hirsch, Niobe, Will Oldham, Nels Cline, Mike Doughty, Graham Haynes, David Krakauer, Two Foot Yard, Tin Hat Trio, Raz Mesinai and Burnt Sugar.
Pamelia
Kurstin
iis a world-renowned thereminist who has played and recorded with such
prestigious artists as David Byrne and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Pamelia
performs solo theremin orchestra by using looping pedals, with the New
York-based group Barbez.
Jenny
Scheinman
"Jenny Scheinman, violinist/composer, was voted the #1 Rising Star
Violinist in the 2003 Downbeat Critics Poll, has performed and recorded
extensively with Bill Frisell as well as Norah Jones, Vinicius Cantuaria,
Nels Cline, Marc Ribot...
Wesley Anderson
Wes Anderson is a native of Oakland, CA. He studied under funk/R&B master David Garibaldi, at PPSI with Scott Morris, and with Greg Sudmeyer. He toured the country wearing a large foam head and an inflatable head in the avant-rock troupe Idiot Flesh. He is currently playing jazz with Crushing Spiral Ensemble, nerdy nerd-rock with Schloss, punk-rock with Kap, and klezmer-punk-Balkan-funk with Charming Hostess.
Nina
Rolle
NINA ROLLE is a hybrid artist (singer, composer, storyteller, voiceover
artist, actor and clown) with a keen interest in Sonic Theater and a deep
love of collaboration. She has a BA from Naropa University, where she
worked with Meredith Monk, Barbara Dilley, Lee Worley, and Allen Ginsberg.
From 1995-2000 Nina performed nationally as singer and accordionist with
the acclaimed Bay Area band Charming Hostess. Her original show Zen Cabaret won Pick of the Fringe two years running.
Michael Pinkham
Michael has been drawn towards the rhythms of Africa, Cuba, Brazil and India. Michael studied tabla at the Ali Akbar College. The infectious driving rhythms of Brazil led Michael to join the traditional Samba batteria, Samba Do Corocao. He has studied privately with some of the greatest drumset players in the Bay Area, including Colin Bailey, Alan Hall, Robert Kaufman and Atma Anur. Michael plays and tours with Albino!, Superbacana, Diego's Umbrella, Monkey Knife Fight, I Am Spoonbender, and John Kalleen Group.
 Jewlia
Eisenberg is also available as a Lay
Cantor for ritual practices including; weddings,
b'ney mitzvah, and more.
Kugelplex
 Kugelplex is the West Coast's rockin'-est purveyor of klezmer and old-world party music. The group plays wild, soulful dance music at weddings, concerts and festivals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Recent highlights include leading the Oakland Symphony and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir in an epic 150-musician niggun at the Paramount Theater and our shtetl-blasting 15-piece collaboration with Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Frank London at Cafe Du Nord.
For weddings, Kugelplex can act as expert ritual facilitators, helping plan your event every step of the way. From tish to toasts, the group plays in a variety of configurations and styles -- chamber music, cocktail jazz, wild dancing, beautiful horas, dance instruction, DJing.
The
Grim Arithmetic of Water
 A
collaboration with Jo
Kreiter's Flyaway Productions. "The Grim Arithmetic of
Water" is an evening length dance performance that responds to the
urgencies of water-its scarcity, its depletion, its contamination, and
our inescapable need for it. Funded by the Rockefeller
Foundation's 2003 Multi-Arts Production Fund.
Graham
Connah's 22-piece orchestra.
 "The
famously dry and self-deprecating genius (Graham Connah) stages one of
his musical extravaganzas only once or twice a year, but always with such
lustrous results. This last bid, however, with dueling trombones, bassoon,
saxes (all the horns in Hornville, really), the roaming sailor chorus,
acrobatic vocals by Jewlia Eisenberg (of Charming Hostess) and bassist
Devin Hoff and drummer Ches Smith both anchoring and propelling the arrangements,
it became more than just a spectacular show..." - SF
Chronicle article by Beth Lisick
Semezdin
Mehmedinovic
Semezdin
Mehmedinovic
wrote Sarajevo
Blues. Charming Hostess has set Mr. Mehmedinovic's work in their latest
release with the same name. Mr. Mehmediovic's work was written during
the siege of Sarajevo in 1992 and still powerfully topical, Sem’s
micro-essays and poems are simultaneously war reportage, thoughts on sex,
history, and politics, and a philosophical detective story. Violence is
not always explicit in his work, but is most often felt seeping into simple
daily actions. Sarajevo Blues witnesses terror, but also models love and
resistance, in a city once cosmopolitan, charming, and culturally diverse,
now brutalized and made narrow.
Lynne
Sachs
"Lynne Sachs produces intricately layered
films and videos that push traditional cinematic expectations about the
use of sound and image in the documentary form. In her film..."
 GET
THICK: Art-funk! The seedy underbelly of the Supremes! This CD by Charming
Hostesses Jewlia Eisenberg and Marika Hughes features songs about sexuality
and its discontents. Thick is filled with passion, catchy hooks and avant-garde
lyricism. Read an early review. Hear a clip from Thick!
Jewlia Eisenberg plays bass and sings. Experimental vocal technique meets
freak of the week. After years of leading avant-pop girlcore extravaganza
Charming Hostess, the songs she writes for Red Pocket are filled with
the joy of romance.Marika Hughes plays cello and sings. Classically trained,
she now prefers to rock the low end: Her cello parts incorporate lyrical
melodies, funky bass riffs and rhythm guitar punch. Outside of her work
with Red Pocket, she plays with Two Foot Yard, Etienne De Rocher, Eric
McFadden.
Scott Amendola is an amazing drummer who plays with
everyone (Nels Cline Singers, TJ Kirk, Scott Amendola Band) because he
is so damn good. Incorporating live electronics and hand percussion with
the genius of the great funky drummers, Scott holds the estrogen in Red
Pocket together.
Artwork by Cybele Gerachis
The
Radical Film Series
 Two
musicians avoid rubber bullets at an anti-war demonstration and ask questions.
Why does the left always eat itself? Will revolution come to our shores?
Why do we feel alienated and crabby at a perfectly good demonstration?
To build community and have a good time, we decide to make a traveling
movie house for the red and the black. This is a meeting place for the
new left and the whatís left, anarcho-syndicalists and leafy Greens,
social democrats and democratic socialists. Guaranteed a popcorn - and
politics-filled good time for all. Muscians: Jewlia
Eisenberg and Devin
Hoff
Azadi
 A
benefit compilation CD for the Revolutionary Association of the Women
of Afghanistan (RAWA).
A diverse 2-CD set of avant-rock, electronic, world, experimental, jazz,
folk, noise, improv, hip-hop, dancefloor, and modern classical music.
Balkans
Without Borders
 Omnium
has put together a special benefit CD showcasing the music of the Balkan
region played by bands from the USA and Europe. All the artists &
labels have donated their music for this release, which includes liner
notes from NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu: "Here is the unmistakable
sound of the Balkans, full of spirit, romance, and life..."
Real
Audio Clips of Charming Hostess Big Band
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