Devin Hoff

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Devin Hoff is an American bassist, composer and arranger. Hoff has collaborated with Julia Holter, [1] Nels Cline, [2] Sharon Van Etten, [3] Shannon Lay, [4] Cibo Matto, [5] Kira Roessler, [6] [5] Good For Cows, Xiu Xiu, [5] and others.

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Hoff has also released three albums of solo and multi-tracked contrabass material—Solo Bass (2009), Baile as Baile (2019), and Sigils (2018). Laurie Anderson named Solo Bass as one of her top 5 favorite albums of all time. [7]

Selected discography

Devin Hoff - solo

Caustics

Julia Holter

Shannon Lay

The Nels Cline Singers

Nels Cline

ROVA + The Nels Cline Singers

Good for Cows

Ether Feather

Marc Ribot

Miho Hatori

David Lord

Tara Jane O'Neil

Deerhoof

Redressers

Wholphin DVD magazine, No. 7

Steven Bernstein

Joshua Redman

Fred Frith, Larry Ochs, Darren Johnston, Devin Hoff, Ches Smith

Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Ches Smith, Devin Hoff

Carla Bozulich (feat. Willie Nelson)

Evangelista

Ben Goldberg

Howard Wiley

Odessa Chen

Sean Hayes

AwkWard with Kira Roessler

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