Janel Leppin
Biography
Janel Leppin (born 1981) is an American jazz and genre crossing cellist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and weaver who has toured as a soloist and accompanying artists internationally since 2004. She has presented her work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the ISSUE Project Room. Leppin released four solo recordings, The Brink (2023), American God (2017), Mellow Diamond (2016), and Songs for Voice and Mellotron (2016). She collaborates as part of Janel and Anthony with her husband, American guitar player Anthony Pirog. Recordings of her work as a composer and side musician appear on Sacred Bones, Bella Union, Touch, Tzadik, Sub Pop, Editions Mego, Sister Polygon, Dischord Records, Ideologic Organ and Cuneiform Records. Her work has experimental, avant-garde, jazz, free jazz, classical, ambient and rock influences.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
63 releases · 23 albums · active 2007–2026
- Performance · 150
- Other credits · 97
- Production · 4
Studios: The Brink Analog and Digital Recording Studios · House Of Lux · Inner Ear Studios · Airshow Mastering, Takoma Park, MD
Frequent collaborators
- Eyvind Kang
- Janel & Anthony
- Priests (2)
- Susan Alcorn
- Laughing Man (4)
- The Messthetics
- Various
- Skullcap (2)