Devra Hoff | |
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Born | Colorado |
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Devra Hoff is an American bassist, composer, and arranger. [1] [2] She is a member of Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory [3] and co-founder of Mendoza Hoff Revels with Ava Mendoza. [1]
Hoff composed work for the Wholphin short film Look at the Sun, [4] performed on the soundtrack for Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy, and released three albums of solo and multi-tracked contrabass material: Solo Bass (2009), Baile as Baile (2019), and Sigils (2018). [5] Laurie Anderson named Solo Bass as one of her top 5 favorite albums of all time. [6] In 2021, Kill Rock Stars released Hoff's Voices From the Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs), an album of works by English folk singer Anne Briggs; arranged and with bass performances by Hoff, the release features artists including Julia Holter, Shannon Lay, Sharon Van Etten, Emmett Kelly, and Jim White. [2] Hoff's many other collaborators include Nels Cline, Cibo Matto, [7] Kira Roessler, [8] and Xiu Xiu, [7] and she has released several albums with Ches Smith as Good for Cows. [9]
Year | Title | Label |
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2008 | Solo Bass [10] | |
2018 | Sigils | Stoned To Death |
2019 | Baile as Baile | Devil Hoof |
2025 | Solve, Coagula | Switch Hit |
Year | Artist | Title | Label | Personnel |
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2001 | Good for Cows | Good for Cogs | Evander Music | Hoff, Smith |
2003 | Good for Cows | Less Than or Equal To | Free Porcupine Society | Hoff, Smith |
2004 | Redressers | To Each According... | Hoff, Smith, Marika Hughes, Carla Kihlstedt | |
2004 | Good for Cows | Bebop Fantasy | Asian Man | Hoff, Smith |
2008 | Good for Cows | 10th Anniversary Concert | Bleeding Ear | Hoff, Smith |
2010 | Good for Cows | Audumla | Web of Mimicry | Hoff, Smith |
2018 | AwkWard | In Progress | Hoff, Kira Roessler | |
2020 | Caustics | Touch | Deathbomb Arc / Moone | Hoff, Yasi Perera, Josiah Wolf, John Dieterich [11] |
2021 | Hoff | Voices From the Empty Moor [2] | Kill Rock Stars | Hoff ft. Van Etten, Holter, Wiley, Lay, Farha, Kelly, White [5] |
2023 | Mendoza Hoff Revels | Echolocation [12] | AUM Fidelity | Hoff, Ava Mendoza, Smith, James Brandon Lewis |
Year | Artist | Title | Label |
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2002 | The Nels Cline Singers | Instrumentals [13] | Cryptogramophone |
2003 | Carla Bozulich (ft. Willie Nelson) | The Red Headed Stranger | DiCristina Stair Builders |
2004 | The Nels Cline Singers | The Giant Pin [14] | Cryptogramophone |
2005 | Xiu Xiu | La Forêt | 5 Rue Christine |
2006 | Xiu Xiu | The Air Force | 5 Rue Christine |
2006 | Nels Cline | New Monastery [15] | Cryptogramophone |
2006 | Ben Goldberg Quintet | The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact | Cryptogramophone |
2006 | Howard Wiley | Angola Project | |
2006 | Odessa Chen | Ballad of Paper Ships | |
2007 | The Nels Cline Singers | Draw Breath [16] | Cryptogramophone |
2007 | Frith, Ochs, Johnston, Hoff, Smith | Reasons for Moving | Not Two |
2007 | Sean Hayes | Flowering Spade | |
2008 | Halvorson, Pavone, Smith, Hoff | Calling All Portraits | Skycap |
2008 | Steven Bernstein | Diaspora Suite | Tzadik |
2009 | Evangelista | The Prince of Truth | |
2010 | Nels Cline | Dirty Baby [17] | Cryptogramophone |
2010 | ROVA + The Nels Cline Singers | The Celestial Septet | New World |
2010 | The Nels Cline Singers | Initiate [18] | Cryptogramophone |
2010 | Sean Hayes | Run Wolves Run | |
2011 | Odessa Chen | The Archives | |
2012 | Xiu Xiu | Always | Polyvinyl |
2013 | Julia Holter | Loud City Song | Domino |
2015 | Julia Holter | Have You in My Wilderness | Domino |
2016 | Nels Cline | Lovers [19] | Blue Note |
2017 | Deerhoof | Mountain Moves | Joyful Noise |
2017 | Tara Jane O'Neil | Tara Jane O'Neil | Gnomonsong |
2017 | Julia Holter | In the Same Room | Domino |
2017 | Xiu Xiu | Forget | Polyvinyl |
2017 | Shannon Lay | Living Water | Woodsist / Mare |
2018 | New Optimism | Amazon To LeFrak | Phantom Limb |
2018 | Miss Information | Sequence | Pioneer Works |
2018 | Julia Holter | Aviary | Domino |
2018 | Marc Ribot | Songs of Resistance | Anti- |
2018 | David Lord | Forest Standards | |
2019 | Xiu Xiu | Girl with Basket of Fruit | Polyvinyl |
2019 | Ether Feather | Devil Shadowless Hand | |
2021 | Shannon Lay | Geist [20] | Sub Pop |
2022 | Sharon Van Etten | We've Been Going About This All Wrong | Jagjaguwar |
2024 | Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves | Domino |