Where Is Home, by Janel and Anthony

Where Is Home

by Janel and Anthony

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Deidre House This is my favorite avant-garde-progressive-ambient-folk-drone-psychedelic-chamber-core album.

Heh, just kidding about that description, but I'm at a loss for words, beyond that this is truly excellent stuff. Ed Buckley said it best, he's the reason I got it in the first place.

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1.	Big Sur 04:30	info
2.	The Clearing 02:21	info
3.	Leaving the Woods 05:39	info
4.	Symphony Hills 01:07	info
5.	Lily in the Garden 04:14	info
6.	Auburn Road 00:42	info
7.	Mustang Song 05:39	info
8.	Stay With Me 00:51	info
9.	A Viennesian Life 03:50	info
10.	Broome's Orchard 07:55	info
11.	'Cross the Williamsburg Bridge 01:33	info
12.	Where Will We Go 06:39	info
13.	Finale 01:27	info

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"Janel & Anthony - guitars and 'cello respectively - play a haunting and humbly virtuosic form of music wherein the elements of electronics, looping, and lo-fi timbres live both in intimacy and in majesty in the same house as acoustic instruments and folk/blues-inspired melodies. As such, it is both timely and timeless, drenched as it is in intoxicating atmosphere; wan, quiet voices submitting to waves of sonic drama. Who could possibly resist it?" – Nels Cline

"Where Is Home is one of the most stunning records this year and will surely be a much spoken about record for some time. Where Is Home is a mind blowing record that will stay in my listening rotation for years." – Sound Colour Vibration

"If your soul is downright weary from the burdens of everyday life,cellist Janel Leppin and guitarist Anthony Pirog present an ideal antidote with their intimate, intuitive music. In both bucolic acoustic numbers and immersive dronescapes, the duo offers transport from mundane matters of the world."-– Time Out New York

"A sometimes beautiful album ... [which] references a theme of rootless wandering and displacement running as an undercurrent throughout the CD." – AllMusic

"Janel and Anthony are an important step in the evolution of music. They both exist on so many levels, each piece is like a hundred doors opening up!" – Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins)

Both musicians, together and separately, have long been an important and active part of Washington D.C.’s new-music scene. Anthony Pirog, an omnivorous, multi-faceted guitarist who studied jazz at Berklee and has performed country, fingerstyle, rock and surf music and Janel Leppin, a conservatory trained cellist steeped in North Indian and Persian classical music, who also plays electric bass in rock bands, have created a lavishly detailed musical journey, by turns ravishing and harrowing. Janel and Anthony alternately charm and challenge, with music that draws from classical, experimental, jazz, rock and electronic traditions but that ultimately is simply theirs.

Self-recording and releasing their 1st album in 2006 and selling thousands of copies at their hundreds of shows, they spent over 3 years conceiving and recording Where Is Home in a professional, analog studio, giving the album a thoughtful, comfortable and lived in feel. Alternating compositions with brief improvisations and soundscapes, Where Is Home captures the dynamic ebb and flow of their live shows where they artfully employ live looping, an array of effects and prepared backing. Simple musical lines grow into complex blocks of echoing sound which eventually are spun and turned into elegiac melodies. The music is both experimental and elegant and smokily psychedelic in a completely modern way.

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released May 22, 2012

Janel Leppin – cello, loops, electronics
Anthony Pirog – guitar, loops, electronics

Recorded at The Brink, Centreville, VA.
Engineered by Mike Reina.
Additional recording by Nick Anderson at Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, VA.
Mixed and mastered by Mell Dettmer.

Produced by Janel and Anthony.

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