Jenny Hoyston/Paradise Island Biography
Jenny Hoyston/Paradise Island creates songs and soundscapes on a 4Track recorder with the barest elements: voice, toy drum machines, ukulele, guitar, thumb piano...
Live solo shows are spontaneous and varied. Delicate, acoustic gospel/folk sets showcase the soulful, textured voice you don't hear in Erase Errata. Electronic noise-groove sets feel other-worldly, especially when Hoyston employs strobe lights, costumes along with her deadpan delivery.
Jenny Hoyston/Paradise Island has toured North America and Western Europe, sharing bills with Kim Gordon, The Gossip, XBXRX, Devendra Barnhart, Tracy & the Plastics, Gravytrain and other greats.
Hoyston's other musical projects include Erase Errata (vocals, trumpet, guitar), California Lightening (vocals, guitar) and Anxious Rats (vocals w/ Kim Gordon). She guest sings and/or trumpets on records by the King Cobra, XBXRX, K.I.T., Hawnay Troof, Zonetech, C.L.A.W.S. and others.
Jenny Hoyston was born and raised in Texas and lives in San Francisco, CA.
Partial Discography:
(Out 9/06) William Elliot Whitmore and Jenny Hoyston CD/LP "The Hallways of Always"
LBA Keep the Fuss Off My Buzz DVD (Sickroom/Modern Radio)
Paradise Island CD "Seeing Spots" (Latitudes/Southern)
Paradise Island LP/CD "Lines are Infinitely Fine" (Dimmak)
Paradise Island 7" "Get Up" (Dimmak)
Paradise Island 7" "Rainbow" (Troubleman)
Paradise Island LP/CD "Beast" w/ Dada Swing (Cochon)
Erase Errata LP/CD "Nightlife" (Kill Rock Stars)
Erase Errata LP/CD "Other Animals" (Troubleman/Blast First)
Erase Errata LP/CD "At Crystal Palace" (Troubleman/Blast First)
Erase Errata 7" w/ Sonic Youth (Narnack Records)
Erase Errata 7" w/ The Gossip (Kill Rock Stars)
Erase Errata LP/CD "Dancing Machine" w/ Kid 606, Adult., & others (Troubleman)
Erase Errata 7" (Inconvenient Press & Recordings)
Erase Errata 7" w/ Black Dice (Troubleman)
Erase Errata 7" w/Red Monkey (Gringo)
Erase Errata 3" CD/7" w/ Numbers (Tigerbeat 6, Troubleman)
California Lightening 7" (Soundonsound, re-released on Troubleman)
California Lightening 7" "Four Virgins" w/Sic Alps
Subtonix 7" Untitled (?)
Day 28 CD "Peep" (Youth Rendetion)
Select Press
Island Girl, SF Bay Guardian, Oct 2003.
Critic's Choice, Chicago Reader, May 2003.
Best of the Bay 2003, SF Bay Guardian.
Review of Lines are Infinitely Fine, June 2003.
Review of the Get Up ep, July 2003
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