Charming Hostess Khanukah Party
--With MC SoCalled and Heeb Magazine

Charming Hostess and
MC SoCalled


Thursday, December 9
Cafe Du Nord
2170 Market St at Sanchez Street
415-861-5016

$8 Doors at 9pm
Jewlia Eisenberg and Charming Hostess do a Khanukah Show at Cafe Du Nord. Joining Charming Hostess will be MC SoCalled, who mixes and samples old Jewish albums, comedy records and movies to create new beats to rhyme over. Heeb magazine is organizing this party. Charming Hostess will sing from their revelatory upcoming album, Sarajevo Blues (Tzadik), a tour de force of vocal brains and brawn. Based around Bosnian poetry, Sarajevo Blues tells of love and resistance, the nature of evil, and peace work by any means necessary.
     

Jewlia's boldly original compositional voice brings the sexy, soulful sound of 60's girl groups to the 21st century avant-garde, rocking out along the way.
Charming Hostess is three women in a whirl of eerie harmony, hot rhythm, and radical smarts. Their music is rooted in the body--voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. Charming Hostess lives where Jewish and African Diasporas collide, incorporating doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan harmony and Sufi melody. Their last CD (Trilectic, Tzadik) explored the political/erotic world with humor and sensuality. Their genre is best described as:
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In Sarajevo Blues, Charming Hostess takes history and news as a context, but steers towards poetry as a way to focus on real human experience, on daily life under siege in Sarajevo. Some songs explicitly speak of war, and some of cafe culture, underground sexuality, and freedom under extreme constraint. It sounds heavy, but we swear it’s mostly about the triumph of the human spirit.

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