# Devra Hoff

Devra Hoff is an American bassist, composer, and arranger. She is a member of Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory and co-founder of Mendoza Hoff Revels with Ava Mendoza.

## Career

Hoff composed work for the Wholphin short film Look at the Sun, 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). Laurie Anderson named Solo Bass as one of her top 5 favorite albums of all time. 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, Kira Roessler, and Xiu Xiu, and she has released several albums with Ches Smith as Good for Cows.

## Selected discography
### Solo

| Year | Title | Label |
| 2008 | Solo Bass | |
| 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 |
| 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 | AUM Fidelity | Hoff, Ava Mendoza, Smith, James Brandon Lewis |

### As sideperson

| Year | Artist | Title | Label |
| 2002 | The Nels Cline Singers | Instrumentals | Cryptogramophone |
| 2003 | Carla Bozulich (ft. Willie Nelson) | The Red Headed Stranger | DiCristina Stair Builders |
| 2004 | The Nels Cline Singers | The Giant Pin | Cryptogramophone |
| 2005 | Xiu Xiu | La Forêt | 5 Rue Christine |
| 2006 | Xiu Xiu | The Air Force | 5 Rue Christine |
| 2006 | Nels Cline | New Monastery | 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 | 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 | Cryptogramophone |
| 2010 | ROVA + The Nels Cline Singers | The Celestial Septet | New World |
| 2010 | The Nels Cline Singers | Initiate | 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 | 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 | 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 |