#Leslie Winer

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Jean-Michel Basquiat and his girlfriend Leslie Winer photographed by Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, 1982.

#jean michel basquiat #jean-michel basquiat #baseball #leslie winer #1982 #1980s #1980s fashion #1980s art #polaroids

[dozydawn]

Valentino, 1983.

Model: Leslie Winer.

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[mywifeleftme]

210: Leslie Winer // If I Hit You—You’ll Feel It

If I Hit You—You’ll Feel It Leslie Winer 2021, Light in the Attic

There’s an exchange at the end of the otherwise useful booklet packaged with Light in the Attic’s career-spanning Leslie Winer compilation that ranks among the most embarrassing moments for music journalism in recent memory. After providing helpful context on Winer’s groundbreaking but obscure dub/trip-hop project ©, British journalist Wyndham Wallace tracks the reclusive artist and ex-supermodel down at her home in the French countryside for a wide-ranging interview about her life and times. Then this happens:

In bed that night, beneath the blue twilight of a frosted skylight, I’d reflected upon our conversations as I struggled to sleep. I was still secretly thrilled that—thanks to an improbably inadvertent meeting a decade earlier, at the memorial for another similarly reclusive musical pioneer—I’d finally come to learn the full story of the woman whose music had first bewitched me over a quarter century ago. I began shaping her life’s narrative in my mind, wrestling with words, trying to come up with a pithy reason why I found her so compelling. In the end, only one term felt appropriate, and even that was woefully insufficient. From my mouth, at least, it seemed ridiculous. But then I imagined how it would sound if she said it. So, as we wind things up, I ask if she’s got time for one more question. “Sure,” she answers cheerfully. “How would you respond,” I say, “to the idea of someone describing you as ‘badass’?” There’s a pause. A long pause. “I don’t even really know what that means,” she finally replies, shaking her head quietly, her face betraying confusion and, in all honesty, what might be a hint of sadness. “Badass: it’s just a… I don’t really know. It doesn’t really mean anything. It’s so overused. Laden.” I’d not expected her to willingly embrace the description. Nevertheless, I’d thought she might see it as a compliment. I decide to elaborate on my definition. “To me,” I say, “a ‘badass’ is someone who doesn’t take any shit, who tells it like it is, then gets on and does things their way.” “Yeah,” Winer drawls, but then she falls silent again. “I don’t just mean in your life,” I add. “I also mean in your art.” Outside, the snow has ceased, and the clouds, the clouds are like dirty cotton. “You’ve got to be good at it,” I persist. “You’ve got to be good to be badass.” At last the ‘endurer’ nods, almost to herself. “Yeah,” she says slowly. “Yeah, well I didn’t have any other choice. Because, you know, I can’t imagine being any other way. What was I going to do? Dumbass lying?” No, I think to myself. You were never going to do that. But when you hit me, I feel it.

Then he signs his fucking name! That’s now it ends! Look, sometimes you make a fool of yourself when you get a chance to talk to your heroes. It’s a totally normal, human reaction. But how blinkered do you have to be to make it your 22-page article’s kicker, to exactingly document that interaction like it somehow gets to the obscure core of the artist’s life that you’ve been driving towards, instead of as the moment you succeeded in pulling your own underwear over your forehead before you were broomed out of her chateau at the earliest possible opening? Imagine, months after the fact, being so hornily fixated on having gotten this woman to say the Pinterest word you jammed into her mouth that it still seems like a good idea to include it. “Nailed it,” you say under your breath, having girlbossified a serious artist in the grimmest battle of attrition the French countryside has seen since the Somme.

Great compilation though! Thanks to her striking appearance and what seems to have been an inborn Coolness, Winer infiltrated the fashion and art world of 1980s New York and London as a teen, becoming a highly sought-after model before making her way into the record business. Under the name ©, she recorded her first solo album Witch in 1990, though it would be three years before the full LP would see release. In the meantime, a few white label singles circulated in the London DJ scene, making them some of the earliest examples of what would later be known as trip-hop to hit the circuit.

Winer had an art school background, and she brought an intuitive, experimental sensibility to the recording process, crafting echoing, dubby beats out of digitally chopped samples and analog contributions by friends, including ex-Public Image Ltd. bassist Jah Wobble and members of an abortive previous project called Max. Over these innovative soundscapes, Winer holds forth with a stream of spoken word poetry, flashes of repeated concrete details intercut with abstract musings, influenced by her Beat mentors William S. Burroughs and Herbert Huncke and delivered with a Lydia Lunch-style sneer:

The clouds were moving across the sky Filling up with rain Some damn basketball game You can hear the thunder start to say You had to be there, if you know what I mean Old lady Santa Claus screaming at the Kennedys You just hold that thought.

As noted, it took ages for Witch to come out (to limited but intense acclaim), and while she recorded here and there throughout the ‘90s little of it made much impact outside a small cult of critics and collaborators. Eventually, the pressures of kicking a heroin habit and caring for five children as a single mother forced music onto the backburner until a period of renewed activity in the 2010s. If I Hit You—You’ll Feel It is the first collection to span her entire career, including a few previously unreleased cuts, and it shows she continued to find new ways to dismantle and rebuild her style as she aged. “Tree” (recorded in 1996 but unreleased till 2012) combines mandolin, loops assembled from traditional Irish folk recordings, and a light-stepping breakbeat; the previously unreleased “Fragment #2,” recorded with Mari G. Mooney in 2015, is near-ambient, little more than an unsteady beat pattern and a single, sparkly decaying note around her hoarse murmur. Always reliable for an acidly quotable line (“I’ve got a couple of drops of Indian blood / Mostly on my hands”; “I’ve seen you in some stupid fucking outfits in my time / But that one takes the prize”) and a surly gravitas, I will say this in poor journo Wyndham Wallace’s defence: if I met Winer, I’m sure I’d act like a total fucking dork too.

210/365

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[chicinsilk]

Vogue Italia July/August 1982 💚❤️💚❤️💚

Model Leslie Winer wears an evening ensemble by Valentino.

Photo Rico Puhlmann

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[sebastien-chou]

sebastien chou photo

https://www.discogs.com/master/1727015-Leslie-Winer-CM-von-Hausswolff-%E2%91%A0

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“On the Difficulty” -  (vocal version 2)

Edited, sound & image by Sébastien Chou - “On the Difficulty of Imagining an Ideal City” text is an interpretation based on a selection from Georges Perec’s collection of miscellany: "Espèces d'espaces"—

Read by artist & musician Leslie Winer.

2017

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[negaversebuffet]

1 HOUR OF SPOOKiE MUSIC AND LIVE MIXED VHS MEDIA MULCHED FOR YOUR PLEASURE!

GOTH VIBES FOR THE SUMMER I’M POSTING THIS IN!

A HALLOWEEN SCARETASTROPHE!

BIG OL’ PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY WARNING!!!

The last mixtape I was able to do during the pandemic shutdown! The audio is a lot of early 2000s Animal Collective, their side projects/friends, and some newer spookie stuff I've found. This was the last time I did datamosh feedback before switching computers and having that setup break. A fun one to throw on at ur basement show :)

Tracklist

Berserker//Jane

Sunrise//Excepter

c_usv2//Sophiaaaahjkl;8901

Reptilian Space Beings, Shapeshifting Bloodsucking Vampires//Eric Copeland

La Cucaracha//Black Dice 

Acid Baby//Nmesh

Woodshedded//Leslie Winer and Jay Glass Dubs

Face Mask//Terrestrial Tones

Two Sails On A Sound//Animal Collective

The Sailor//Terrestrial Tones

Fun Dink Death//Eric Copeland Originally made for Deaths dynamic shroud halloween mixtape swap 2021 but I got really busy and didnt send it out and the guy disappeared and T_T

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Uneasy Listening Women’s Autonomy May 7, 2022

Image Barbara Kruger Fuckin hellllllllllllllllllllll. Songs about women’s control over their own bodies and lack thereof, with a little segue into Eurovision.

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Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band - Woman of Salem

DJ speaks over The Surfrajettes - Toxic

Ethel Smyth - The March of the Women Salt-N-Pepa - None of Your Business Born Against - Mary and Child Chumbawamba - Fight the Alton Bill Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me

Mylène Farmer - L'Annonciation Nina Hagen - Unbeschreiblich Weiblich Alptraum GmbH - Herzschrittmacher Fluid - I Hate the News Betty Davis - Don't Call Her No Tramp Big In Japan - Society for Cutting Up Men

Cat Power - Nude As the News The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name TV Mama Jean - Women's Liberation Bikini Kill - Jigsaw Youth

New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band - Abortion Song Götterflies - Change Peggy Seeger - Judge's Chair Penetration - Don't Dictate The Breeders - Little Fury

Zdob şi Zdub & Fraţii Advahov - Treneletul (Moldova 2022) France Gall - Poupée de cire poupée de son (Luxembourg 1965) Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät - Aina mun pitää (Finland 2015) Dschingis Khan - Dschingis Khan (Germany 1979) Verka Serduchka - Dancing Lasha Tumbai (Ukraine 2007) Go_A - SHUM (Ukraine 2021) Stereo Total - Grand Prix Eurovision

Rip Rig and Panic - Storm the Reality Asylum Malvina Reynolds - Rosie Jane Burning Kitchen - Operation Rescue

G.L.O.S.S. - Targets of Men Huggy Bear - Jupiter Re-Entry Leslie Winer - The Boy Who Used 2 Whistle Malaria! - Your Turn To Run The Pain Teens - RU 486 T.N.T. - Züri Brännt Planningtorock - Patriarchy (Over & Out) Sonic Youth Tunic (Song for Karen)

Wanda Jackson - My Big Iron Skillet Aus-Rotten - Sexist Appeal A-Gen 53 - Stalingrad

Chumbawamba - This Dress Kills Savages - Shut Up Oi Polloi - The Right to Choose

Poison Girls - S.S. Snoopers

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#Spotify

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Leslie Winer - 5

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RR17—13# Les programmes du vendredi 17 novembre au dimanche 17 décembre

Les créations sonores de RR * Maxwell Sterling, Leslie Winer « Tenderness » En attendant la plage —écritures contemporaines * AC Hello, Lou Achard, Patrick Sirot & les Editions Plaine Page, TLP 6ème éd. L’interlude musical et pimenté de Thomas * Congo-Brazzaville, France & Algérie La voix du large de Lili Le Gouvello * Journal en vrac Le billet cinéma de Benoît Muller * Journal cinéphile d’octobre La part des femmes aux Chantiers Navals de La Ciotat * Portraits de Germaine, Anne, Marie-Martine, Sylvie et Aline par Hélène Coeur ≈ un projet porté par la CCU L’interlude musical et pimenté de Thomas * Ghana, Bénin & Sierra Leone L’atelier bleu * 1ère édition du Forum Eco-solutions (en 4 parties) 1 / 4 ¬ « Agir en faveur du climat et du vivant : pourquoi et pourquoi pas ? », Conférence de Stéphane Labranche, sociologue du climat 2 / 4 ¬ Rencontre avec Grazia, de l’association Les Dynamos A suivre les 3ème et 4ème parties, qui seront publiées dans le courant du mois Les découvertes musicales au club Convergences * Le FAN-TAS-TIQUE Mouvman Alé

Les interludes : Les Bantous de la capitale « Bantous pachanga » (Congo-Brazzaville) * Imohtep « Bendir beat 1 » (France) * Cheikha Rimitti « N’ta goudami » (Algérie) ¬ CK Mann Big Band « Fa W'akoma Ma Me » (Ghana) * Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou « Wegne´Nda M´Banza » (Bénin) * Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars « Goombay Interlude: Rain Come Sun Come » (Sierra Leone)

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BUSINESS DRUNK RADIO: BDR 84

BUSINESS DRUNK RADIO Tuesdays  11am EST bombshellradio.com My mountain bike has killed my soul, enjoy this playlist hosted by your favorite online radio host. Pull List: Siouxsie- Into A Swan The Blackbyrds- Mysterious Vibes The Big Moon- Daydreaming Nine Inch Nails- March Of The Pigs Pink Mountaintops- Lights Of The City Stevie Nicks- Rooms On Fire Warpaint- Baby Leslie Winer- N1 Ear DJ Shadow- Mutual Slump The Stooges- Dirt Everything But The Girl- Good Cop Bad Cop Johnny Cash- If You Could Read My Mind     Read the full article

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photo sebastien chou

https://www.discogs.com/master/488625-Leslie-Winer-c

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