Devra Hoff

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]

Devra Hoff
Born	Colorado
Occupation(s)	composer, bassist
Member of	Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, Mendoza Hoff Revels
Website	devrahoff.bandcamp.com

Career

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]

Selected discography

Solo

Year	Title	Label
2008	Solo Bass[10]
2018	Sigils	Stoned To Death
2019	Baile as Baile	Devil Hoof
2025	Solve, Coagula	Switch Hit

As leader and co-leader

Year	Artist	Title	Label	Personnel
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

As sideperson

Year	Artist	Title	Label
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

References

1. West, Michael J. (December 18, 2024). "Musicians of Mendoza Hoff Revels love the weird parts of jazz and rock". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 18, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
2. Rogers, Jude (November 26, 2021). "Devin Hoff: Voices from the Empty Moor review – stellar lineup for the twists of Anne Briggs". The Guardian. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
3. Paul, Larisha (October 23, 2024). "Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory Announce Debut Album, Tour". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
4. "Devin Hoff". LPR. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
5. Sawle, Chris (November 8, 2021). "Album review: Devin Hoff – 'Voices From The Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs)': the canon of the Notts folk free spirit judiciously reinvented". Backseat Mafia. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
6. CAS (February 9, 2021). "Laurie Anderson's Top Five Albums of All Time". Classic Album Sundays. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
7. "Devin Hoff". New Music USA. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
8. Cohan, Brad (February 14, 2019). "Bass Wars". Rock and Roll Globe. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
9. "Ches Smith & Devin Hoff (Good for Cows) w/ Mary Halverson, Jessica Pavone and Zs". Roulette. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
10. Chandler, Tom (October 22, 2008). "Devin Hoff: Solo Bass". East Bay Express. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
11. "Stream Caustics' Touch - The Wire". The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
12. Kitching, Sean (October 12, 2023). "Mendoza Hoff Revels: Echolocation". The Quietus. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
13. Reid, Brendan (November 6, 2002). "Instrumentals: The Nels Cline Singers". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
14. Greenlee, Steve (July 13, 2022). "The Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin (Cryptogramophone)". JazzTimes. Archived from the original on July 14, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
15. Milkowski, Bill (December 1, 2006). "Nels Cline: New Monastery". JazzTimes. Archived from the original on June 14, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
16. Leitko, Aaron (October 19, 2007). "Draw Breath: The Nels Cline Singers". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
17. Corroto, Mark (November 21, 2010). "Nels Cline: Dirty Baby". All About Jazz. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
18. Tangari, Joe (April 16, 2010). "The Nels Cline Singers: Initiate". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
19. Sullivan, Mark (September 23, 2016). "Nels Cline: Lovers". All About Jazz. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
20. Madden, Emma (October 12, 2021). "Shannon Lay: Geist". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 25, 2025.

External links

• Devin Hoff - Discogs