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- country:USA
- style(s):Ethnic, Experimental
- label:not signed
- type:Band
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:Trouble Worldwide
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Writhing sea monsters and demon divorces. Magical amulets and secret sexual desires. Black metal and Blind Willie Johnson. The Bowls Project (Tzadik; CD release July 27, 2010) evokes the cosmopolitanism of ancient Babylon with an eerily contemporary weave of war, sex, and supernatural wonder.
This embrace of sophisticated ideas and visceral sounds comes naturally to Jewlia Eisenberg, composer, vocalist and mistress-mind behind the wryly subversive, musically mischievous group Charming Hostess. Their latest endeavor takes inscriptions from earthenware "demon bowls" once buried beneath Babylonian houses, and transforms them into songs that draw on everything from Iraqi pop to American roots music.