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Current Work
I am currently setting Sarajevo Blues by Bosnian poet Sem Mehmedinovic (to be released on Tzadik, 2004). Written during the seige 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. |
Short Bio
Charming Hostess is three women in a whirl of eerie harmony, hot rhythm and radical braininess. Our music is intensely physical, rooted in the body--voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. We live where Jewish and African diasporas collide, incorporating doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan harmony and Andalusian melody. Our music is deeply engaged with text and with questions of authenticity, montage, and the effect of music on non-verbal languages.
Our latest CD (Trilectic, Tzadik) explored the political/erotic nexus of Walter Benjamin and his Marxist muse with humor and sensuality. The upcoming CD (Sarajevo Blues, Tzadik) sets Bosnian poetry as a form of love and resistance to the brutalization of war.
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Artist Location
San Francisco, CA
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Type of artist
Composer, Performer, Other
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General Themes
International/Global, Religion/Spirituality, Race/Ethnicity/Cultural Identity, Feminism/Gender Issues, Sexuality |
Keywords
NERDY-SEXY-COMMIE-GIRLY |
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