Jordan Glenn: drums Jason Hoopes: bass Andrew Conklin: guitar Karl Evangelista: guitar
Influences
Julius Hemphill, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Paul Motian, Tim Berne, Earth, Japanese court music, Sun City Girls, Bela Bartok, Madrigals, Hector Villa-Lobos, Ornette Coleman, the Blue Notes
HOST FAMILY is an amalgamation of a diverse array of musical interests, idioms, and personalities. Melding rock, jazz, free improvisation, new music, and Tuvan throat singing, this Bay Area ensemble operates in the fertile creative nexus of genre-bending, cross-pollination, and pan-cultural aesthetics.
(Or something like that.)
Members of HOST FAMILY have and/or do feature in:
The Atomic Bomb Audition, Efft, Lighthouse, Timosaurus, Wiener Kids, True Collapse, Dominique Leone, Jack 'o the Clock, Grex
(Guitar solo order on "Apollo" and "Peel": Conklin, Evangelista; otherwise, collective improvisation/simultaneous solos)
"You know, I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know that there are bad forces, forces put here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the force which is truly for good."-John Coltrane
"I deal purely with ass-kicking. Period. Just good old country ass-kicking."-Lester Bowie
Music above recorded live, May 9, 2009, in the Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, CA. [Engineer: Christopher M. Skebo, via live sound by Sarah K. Howe], with the exception of "Peel", recorded winter 2008 [Curtis McKinney-bass] and "Horseflesh - Dance Mix", recorded March 28, 2009 [Michael Dale-alto sax, Nathan Brenner-bass, Engineer: Tomas del Toro-Diaz]
