Devra Hoff

{{short description|American bassist, composer and arranger}}

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Devra Hoff is an American bassist, composer, and arranger.{{cite web |last1=West |first1=Michael J. |title=Musicians of Mendoza Hoff Revels love the weird parts of jazz and rock |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/12/18/mendoza-hoff-revels-concert-dc/ |website=The Washington Post |access-date=25 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241218192552/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/12/18/mendoza-hoff-revels-concert-dc/ |archive-date=18 December 2024 |date=18 December 2024 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Rogers |first1=Jude |title=Devin Hoff: Voices from the Empty Moor review – stellar lineup for the twists of Anne Briggs |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/26/devin-hoff-voices-from-the-empty-moor-review-anne-briggs |website=The Guardian |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=26 November 2021}} She is a member of Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory{{cite web |last1=Paul |first1=Larisha |title=Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory Announce Debut Album, Tour |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sharon-van-etten-and-the-attachment-theory-album-announcement-1235140774/ |website=Rolling Stone |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=23 October 2024}} and co-founder of Mendoza Hoff Revels with Ava Mendoza.

Career

Hoff composed work for the Wholphin short film Look at the Sun,{{cite web |title=Devin Hoff |url=https://lpr.com/lpr_artists/devin-hoff/ |website=LPR |access-date=25 January 2025}} 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).{{cite web |last1=Sawle |first1=Chris |title=Album review: Devin Hoff – ‘Voices From The Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs)’: the canon of the Notts folk free spirit judiciously reinvented |url=https://www.backseatmafia.com/album-review-devin-hoff-voices-from-the-empty-moor-songs-of-anne-briggs-the-canon-of-the-notts-free-folk-spirit-judiciously-reinvented/ |website=Backseat Mafia |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=8 November 2021}} Laurie Anderson named Solo Bass as one of her top 5 favorite albums of all time.{{Cite web|last=CAS|date=2021-02-09|title=Laurie Anderson's Top Five Albums of All Time|url=https://classicalbumsundays.com/laurie-andersons-top-five-albums-of-all-time/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Classic Album Sundays|language=en-GB}} 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. Hoff's many other collaborators include Nels Cline, Cibo Matto,{{Cite web|title=Devin Hoff|url=https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/devin-hoff/|access-date=2021-02-13|website=New Music USA|language=en}} Kira Roessler,{{Cite web|last=Cohan|first=Brad|date=2019-02-14|title=Bass Wars|url=https://rockandrollglobe.com/jazz/bass-warsa-spiel-with-devin-hoff-and-kira-from-awkward/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Rock and Roll Globe|language=en-US}} and Xiu Xiu, and she has released several albums with Ches Smith as Good for Cows.{{cite web |title=Ches Smith & Devin Hoff (Good for Cows) w/ Mary Halverson, Jessica Pavone and Zs |url=https://roulette.org/event/ches-smith-devin-hoff-good-for-cows-w-mary-halverson-jessica-pavone-zs-2/ |website=Roulette |access-date=25 January 2025}}

Selected discography

=Solo=

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YearTitleLabel
2008

|Solo Bass{{cite web |last1=Chandler |first1=Tom |title=Devin Hoff: Solo Bass |url=https://eastbayexpress.com/devin-hoff-1/ |website=East Bay Express |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=22 October 2008}}

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2018

|Sigils

|Stoned To Death

2019

|Baile as Baile

|Devil Hoof

2025

|Solve, Coagula

|Switch Hit

=As leader and co-leader=

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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...

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|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

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|Hoff, Kira Roessler

2020

|Caustics

|Touch

|Deathbomb Arc / Moone

|Hoff, Yasi Perera, Josiah Wolf, John Dieterich{{Cite web|title=Stream Caustics' Touch - The Wire|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/stream-caustic-s-touch|access-date=2021-02-12|website=The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music|language=en}}

2021

|Hoff

|Voices From the Empty Moor

|Kill Rock Stars

|Hoff ft. Van Etten, Holter, Wiley, Lay, Farha, Kelly, White

2023

|Mendoza Hoff Revels

|Echolocation{{cite web |last1=Kitching |first1=Sean |title=Mendoza Hoff Revels: Echolocation |url=https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/mendoza-hoff-revels-echolocation-review/ |website=The Quietus |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=12 October 2023}}

|AUM Fidelity

|Hoff, Ava Mendoza, Smith, James Brandon Lewis

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2002

|The Nels Cline Singers

|Instrumentals{{cite web |last1=Reid |first1=Brendan |title=Instrumentals: The Nels Cline Singers |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1510-instrumentals/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=6 November 2002}}

|Cryptogramophone

2003

|Carla Bozulich (ft. Willie Nelson)

|The Red Headed Stranger

|DiCristina Stair Builders

2004

|The Nels Cline Singers

|The Giant Pin{{cite web |last1=Greenlee |first1=Steve |title=The Nels Cline Singers: The Giant Pin (Cryptogramophone) |url=https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/the-nels-cline-singers-the-giant-pin-cryptogramophone/ |website=JazzTimes |access-date=25 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714183055/https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/the-nels-cline-singers-the-giant-pin-cryptogramophone/ |archive-date=14 July 2022 |date=13 July 2022}}

|Cryptogramophone

2005

|Xiu Xiu

|La Forêt

|5 Rue Christine

2006

|Xiu Xiu

|The Air Force

|5 Rue Christine

2006

|Nels Cline

|New Monastery{{cite web |last1=Milkowski |first1=Bill |title=Nels Cline: New Monastery |url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/nels-cline-new-monastery/ |website=JazzTimes |access-date=25 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614122032/https://jazztimes.com/archives/nels-cline-new-monastery/ |archive-date=14 June 2021 |date=1 December 2006}}

|Cryptogramophone

2006

|Ben Goldberg Quintet

|The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact

|Cryptogramophone

2006

|Howard Wiley

|Angola Project

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2006

|Odessa Chen

|Ballad of Paper Ships

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2007

|The Nels Cline Singers

|Draw Breath{{cite web |last1=Leitko |first1=Aaron |title=Draw Breath: The Nels Cline Singers |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10725-draw-breath/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=19 October 2007}}

|Cryptogramophone

2007

|Frith, Ochs, Johnston, Hoff, Smith

|Reasons for Moving

|Not Two

2007

|Sean Hayes

|Flowering Spade

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2008

|Halvorson, Pavone, Smith, Hoff

|Calling All Portraits

|Skycap

2008

|Steven Bernstein

|Diaspora Suite

|Tzadik

2009

|Evangelista

|The Prince of Truth

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2010

|Nels Cline

|Dirty Baby{{cite web |last1=Corroto |first1=Mark |title=Nels Cline: Dirty Baby |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/dirty-baby-nels-cline-cryptogramophone-review-by-mark-corroto |website=All About Jazz |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=21 November 2010}}

|Cryptogramophone

2010

|ROVA + The Nels Cline Singers

|The Celestial Septet

|New World

2010

|The Nels Cline Singers

|Initiate{{cite web |last1=Tangari |first1=Joe |title=The Nels Cline Singers: Initiate |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14139-initiate/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=16 April 2010}}

|Cryptogramophone

2010

|Sean Hayes

|Run Wolves Run

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2011

|Odessa Chen

|The Archives

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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{{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Mark |title=Nels Cline: Lovers |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/lovers-nels-cline-blue-note-records-review-by-mark-sullivan |website=All About Jazz |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=23 September 2016}}

|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

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2019

|Xiu Xiu

|Girl with Basket of Fruit

|Polyvinyl

2019

|Ether Feather

|Devil Shadowless Hand

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2021

|Shannon Lay

|Geist{{cite web |last1=Madden |first1=Emma |title=Shannon Lay: Geist |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/shannon-lay-geist/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=25 January 2025 |date=12 October 2021}}

|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

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