strobe session 34 liz hodson josiah wolf

Liz Hodson Josiah Wolf perform at Chicago s Strobe Recording for the third Thursday live session. Josiah Wolf, like his younger brother and WHY bandmate Yoni, has never been able to escape the call of music. His father, a Cincinnati rabbi, taught him drums at the age of 9, so that curlyhaired kid could provide the backbeat for worship service. Later, he d dabble in darker arts grunge) and fall in love with the hard bop of Thelonious Monk on his way to the University Of Cincinnati s music conservatory. In college, the Wolf boys made fast friends with thenunknowns like Doseone and Odd Nosdam. The formative Greenthink experiments eventually led to the legendary cLOUDDEAD trio, and Josiah coproducing the group s JimmyBreeze 10inch. It hadn t previously occurred to Josiah to write or sing, but Yoni s outsider M. O. spurred him on, resulting in 2003 s lofi and long outofprint The Josiah EP. Inspired, he moved out west to become an integral part of WHY ,3