My perusing Jah Wobble's catalogue also led me to this. What a treasure to uncover.
A world star that few know...Leslie Winer.
Leslie Winer moved from Weston, Massachusetts to New York City in the late 70s to attend School of Visual Arts. While there she met William Burroughs (who became her mentor & life-long friend) & dated Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1980 she began a career as a fashion model. Her androgynous look & being difficult to work with gained her fame in the modelling world. She was a Chritian Dior girl & appeared on numerous Vogue covers. In the mid 80s her modeling gigs brought her to London. She became a regular at the Taboo nightclub where she became friends with Jah Wobble.
In 1990 she recorded her debut album Witch with Jah Wobble. John Peel played some tracks from the white-label promo & the recording became a minor cult classic. With this debut album Winer recorded one of the earliest testimonies of a new genre that was to become the signature sound of the 90s, Trip-hop. Although recorded one year before Massive Attack's Blue Lines, Witch never saw release until 1993. Witch is still considered by those in the know to be the birth of the fusion of hip hop with Jamaican dancehall, integrating a psychedelically colourful bouquet of Funk, soul, house, & R&B elements with electronic stylings.
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He Was
Flove
N1ear
The Boy who Used 2 Whistle
John Says
5
1nce Upon a Time
Skin
Dream 1
The musicians Winer has collaborated with include acts as diverse as Björk, Bill Laswell, Tim Simenon aka Bomb the Bass, Holger Hiller, Karl Bonnie (Renegade Soundwave), Jon Hassell, Vincent Gallo, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Mekon, Diamond Version, Christopher Chaplin, Jay Glass Dubs, & Maxwell Sterling. Winer's songs have been interpreted by the likes of Grace Jones, Boy George, & Sinéad O’Connor.
About Winer, Boy George sez:
"She might just be the coolest woman on the planet!"
But despite her coolness, her closeness & connection with legendary artists, her name is familiar to only a small minority. This next is a career-spanning anthology of Winer's music. It covers three decades of a musical body of work that is unparalleled in terms of independence & originality. "Hold on Postcards" & "Fragment #2" are previously unreleased.
When I was Walt Whitman
N1 Ear
Tree - Leslie Winer
Personals - Jon Hassell & Bluescreen featuring Leslie Winer
Dream 1 - Leslie Winer
Dunderhead - Purity Supreme
The Boy who Used 2 Whistle
Hold on Postcards
He Was
RoundUp Ready
Skin
Box - Leslie Winer
This Blank Action (Diamond version featuring Leslie Winer)
Battle Porn - Leslie Winer
Woodshedded - Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs
Fragment #2 - Leslie Winer & Mari G. Mooney
The song “Woodshedded” above is from the Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs - YMFEES. It is an amazing record, a superb mix of spoken word & Ambient Dub, I couldn't not share it here as well.
Side A -
Woodshedded
Tin Mine
Cogged
Side B -
About the Author
#29
No Famous Actors
Enjoy,
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