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DEVIN HOFF
Devin Hoff is a bassist and composer who has collaborated with Julia Holter, Sharon Van Etten, Ava Mendoza, Nels Cline, Jewlia Eisenberg, Cibo Matto, Deerhoof, Good For Cows, and many other creative musicians and bands. As a solo artist Devin has released 4 records, the first of which, Solo Bass (2008), was named by avant-pop icon Laurie Anderson as one of her top 5 favorite records of all time. On Hoff’s latest release Voices From the Empty Moor (KRS, 2021) the music of Anne Briggs is reinterpreted through an upright bass-focused lens, and features contributions from Holter, Van Etten, Howard Wiley, Alejandro Farha, and more, and was named The Guardian’s Folk Music Record of the Month upon its release in November 2021.
“…the tracks began to take on a life of their own. It’s the ability to counter the expected in unimaginable ways that always seem to work perfectly. They work because of the musical mastery that Hoff puts into the task. That an American from Colorado can translate these songs with such brilliance suggests that Hoff’s Voices from the Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs) is the kind of radical reassessment that can bring these songs into the 21st century.” -For Folk’s Sake, 11/12/21
“Hoff is a double bass virtuoso.... He graces this album with both jazz-flavored lyrical bass lines and emotive bowed soundscapes...and has in effect, uncovered the very essence of her music. The tracks on this album aren’t so much cover songs as they are sonic interpretations of Briggs’ entire world. This is perhaps the closest anyone has ever come to instrumentally portraying the raw emotions that this classic tune’s lyrics suggest…” -Record Crates United, 11/17
“His approach to playing bass (and music in general) is truly special—a combination of rich gliding-tone melodic+harmonic sensibility and an incredibly steady and focused inner pulse.” —Julia Holter
JANEL & ANTHONY
Both musicians, together and separately, have long been an important and active part of Washington D.C.’s new-music scene. Anthony Pirog, an omnivorous, multi-faceted guitarist who studied jazz at Berklee and has performed country, fingerstyle, rock and surf music and Janel Leppin, a conservatory trained cellist steeped in North Indian and Persian classical music, who also plays electric bass in rock bands, have created a lavishly detailed musical journey, by turns ravishing and harrowing. Janel and Anthony alternately charm and challenge, with music that draws from classical, experimental, jazz, rock and electronic traditions but that ultimately is simply theirs.
The result is a marvelous surprise at every turn, as the duo...two absolute virtuosos...create atmospheres that at times evoke the music of Steve Tibbetts, Brian Eno, even soundtrack music" – DownBeat
"Janel & Anthony - guitars and 'cello respectively - play a haunting and humbly virtuosic form of music wherein the elements of electronics, looping, and lo-fi timbres live both in intimacy and in majesty in the same house as acoustic instruments and folk/blues-inspired melodies. As such, it is both timely and timeless, drenched as it is in intoxicating atmosphere; wan, quiet voices submitting to waves of sonic drama. Who could possibly resist it?" – Nels Cline
"Where Is Home is one of the most stunning records this year and will surely be a much spoken about record for some time. Where Is Home is a mind blowing record that will stay in my listening rotation for years." – Sound Colour Vibration
janelleppin.com/janel-and-anthony
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