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Janel Leppin, the Glossary

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.^[1]

Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Beauty Pill

Beauty Pill is an American post-rock band from Washington, D.C., based largely around the songs and ideas of singer/guitarist/producer Chad Clark.

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Bella Union

Bella Union is a British independent record label founded in 1997 by Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins.

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Betsey Wright

Betsey Ross Wright (born July 4, 1943) is an American lobbyist, activist, and political consultant who worked more than a decade for Bill Clinton in Arkansas.

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Bohemian Caverns

The Bohemian Caverns, founded in 1926, was a restaurant and jazz nightclub located on the NE Corner of the intersection of 11th Street and U Street NW in Washington, D.C. The club started out as Club Caverns - a small establishment in the basement of a drugstore - famous for its floor and variety shows.

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Cuneiform Records

Cuneiform Records is a record label in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Dangerbird Records

Dangerbird Records is an independent record label in Los Angeles, California.

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Dischord Records

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in punk rock.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Extended play

An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.

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Eyvind Kang

Eyvindur Y. Kang (born 23 June 1971) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Found object (music)

Found objects are sometimes used in music, often to add unusual percussive elements to a work.

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Free jazz

Free jazz, or Free Form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.

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Instrumentation

Instrumentation is a collective term for measuring instruments, used for indicating, measuring, and recording physical quantities.

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ISSUE Project Room

ISSUE Project Room (often shortened to ISSUE) is a music venue in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2003 by Suzanne Fiol.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler (born April 5, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter. Janel Leppin and Marissa Nadler are Sacred Bones Records artists.

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Mego (label)

Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria.

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Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963.

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Modal jazz

Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece.

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Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi (born 1969) is an Australian musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays mainly electric guitar and percussion.

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Priests (band)

Priests are a post-punk band from Washington D.C. Formed in 2012, the band is composed of Katie Alice Greer (vocals), Daniele Daniele (drums), and G.L. Jaguar (guitar).

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Radio frequency

Radio frequency (RF) is the oscillation rate of an alternating electric current or voltage or of a magnetic, electric or electromagnetic field or mechanical system in the frequency range from around to around.

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Rose Windows (band)

Rose Windows was a seven-piece psychedelic rock band based in Seattle, Washington.

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Sacred Bones Records

Sacred Bones Records is an American independent record label founded in 2007 and based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Sister Polygon Records

Sister Polygon Records was an independent record label run by the band Priests.

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Skysaw

Skysaw was an American alternative rock band featuring The Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin along with multi-instrumentalist/vocalist/songwriter Mike Reina and guitarist Anthony Pirog.

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Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman.

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Susan Alcorn

Susan Alcorn (born 1953) is an American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist.

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Touch Music

Touch (sometimes mistakenly written 'Touch Records' and sometimes written Touch Music, which is technically the publishing side of the company) is a British audio-visual organisation, operating the Touch label.

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Tzadik

Tzadik (צַדִּיק ṣaddīq, "righteous "; also zadik or sadiq; pl. tzadikim ṣadīqīm) is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters.

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