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EDUCATION
2004 Private study of Judeo-Andalusian song with R. Khaim Levi, Jerusalem 2000-03 Private composition lessons with Fred Frith, Mills College 1998 BA in Music, BA in History, University of California at Berkeley 1994 Formal training with sozanda Muna Nissimova, Bukhara 1992 Pair learning at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
DISCOGRAPHY: AS A LEADER
2005 Punch, as Charming Hostess. Recommended Records 2004 Sarajevo Blues, as Charming Hostess. Tzadik, Radical Jewish Culture 2004 Thick, with Red Pocket. Tzadik, Oracle Women's Series 2002 Trilectic, as Charming Hostess. Tzadik, Radical Jewish Culture 1998 Eat, as Charming Hostess. Vaccination Records
These albums all build on the sounds of the body and how they make their homes in the Jewish and African diasporas. All five contain ambitious settings for voice, and all are deeply committed to text and traditional music.
FILM WORK
2005 on score of States of Unbelonging, by Lynne Sachs 2003 Starface - Short film based on an Isaac Babel screenplay. Adapted script, directed, scored. 2002 The Radical Film Project, present - New scores for silents with political content. Composed w/Devin Hoff. 1996 on score of Story of Lillith, by Lynne Sachs 1995 on score of Bad Jew by Eliza Engelberg
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