“A year after Jewlia Eisenberg’s death, she’s still on the front lines, mixing it up with the bullies and authoritarians and raising her voice for lovers and liberation. A thrilling new album by her longtime band Charming Hostess, “The Ginzburg Geography,” details the anti-fascist struggles of the titular Italian intellectuals Leone and Natalia Ginzburg by setting the couple’s letters and writings to a gloriously diverse array of musical styles and idioms.” -J Weekly

Charming Hostess, an “avant-rock” ensemble led by Jewlia Eisenberg, often delved into topical issues in her music, which seamlessly fused a number of subgenres. The “Ginzburg Geography” is an unmistakably powerful performance. - Relix Magazine

“Jewlia Eisenberg’s music thrusts you into a raging party you didn’t know was happening. “The Ginzburg Geography” explores the physical and emotional terrain traversed by Italian anti-fascits intellectuals Leone and Natalia Ginzburg, setting the couples letters and writings intoa gloriously diverse array of musical styles. A gifted improviser with a bone deep feel for the blues, Eisenberg draws on Italian folk songs and anti-fascist anthems as well as Balkan grooves and klezmer modes”. — Jazz Times

“Trilectic is an album to file between Meredith Monk and Sweet Honey In The Rock. That's some space to occupy, but New Yorker Jewlia Eisenberg, now based in Oakland, California, covers a lot off stylistic ground, fronting the a cappella outfit Charming Hostess in a dazzling display of vocal agility, wit, emotional flexibility, and imaginative depth.” -The Wire UK

“Jewlia Eisenberg unleashes music brilliantly conceived and performed…The sound of these powerful voices coming together is truly uplifting and even implicitly political.” -San Francisco Bay Guardian

“Jewlia Eisenberg’s new record, “Trilectic,” kicks brainiac ass.” -Village Voice

“Charming Hostess is the finest anarchist-feminist-polyphonic-polyrhythmic-polymorphously perverse-balkan-blue-ish-Jewish-freak-funk-punk band working in America today. Their live shows are as fabulous and eccentric as their music.” -Los Angeles Weekly

“Thoroughly delightful...[Charming Hostess’s] Ethereal melodies shift elegantly with precise rhythmic accompaniment, and the overall effect encourages an urge to dance and drink vodka.” -The New Yorker

“Jewlia Eisenberg made her mark in the arts world after she became ensconced in an underground music scene. A multi-talented composer, vocalist, activist, educator, lay cantor and more, she was best known as the leader of Charming Hostess [for her] lively klezmer/punk/folk ruminations on sex, gender, history, religion, Marxist ideology and provocative ideas.” — The San Francisco Chronicle

“Jewlia Eisenberg’s work is irreverent and ambitious. Charming Hostess radiates female energy and her singing transforms the spirit.” -The San Francisco Chronicle

“The songs on Jewlia Eisenberg’s album, “Trilectic,” are blithe and frisky. She sets lyrics about politics, jealousy and pizza to a world of styles, from klezmer to pygmy-style counterpoint, humanizing a great thinker while having plenty of fun.” -The New York Times

“Eisenberg’s songs are hilarious and touching, and they run the gamut from hard-edged and powerful to sweet and soulful.” -The New Yorker

“Charming Hostess makes music like no other... Thrown in with lively North African wedding songs and Eastern European folk songs are originals that display a proudly feminist, radical-Jewish, pro-sex sensibility. The blend lets listeners discover whether they can think and dance a the same time.” -The New York Times

“A wonder of haunted American roots music, taking listeners from Yiddish laments to labor anthems via mystical twists and turns.” - BBC

“[Book of J sings] Spiritually charged songs redolent of Yiddish protest and Holy Roller services, juke joint benders, fantastical visions, and prophetic lamentations.” - San Francisco Classical Voice

“[Book of J is] Soulful and weird in all the best ways” - The San Jose Mercury News

“[The Ginzburg Geography] is “so confident, where the voices are in the foreground, singing fresh from the heart, extremely powerful, and always with charm. The songs are confident and combative, straight from the street proletariat.” —Jazz Podium, via Google Translate

“Jewlia Eisenberg made her mark in the arts world after she became ensconced in an underground music scene. A multi-talented composer, vocalist, activist, educator, lay cantor and more, she was best known as the leader of Charming Hostess [for her] lively klezmer/punk/folk ruminations on sex, gender, history, religion, Marxist ideology and provocative ideas.” — The San Francisco Chronicle

“Jewlia Eisenberg’s posthumous album pays tribute to histories of Jewish anti-fascism. Covering the Woody Guthrie classic “All You Fascists Bound To Lose”, feels frighteningly timely—but only if we misunderstand the present as cordoned off. You find yourself singing along to the eclectic mix of tango, swing, Bay Area punk, and incantation—the chorus “Revolution! Revolution!”. On “Guerra di Popolo”, Jewlia’s voice grows more powerful than the A/V equipment can bear. . . with more force than all the world she’s left behind” — Jewish Currents