Queen of the Bass Raving Space Cat Dub Junglists.

Cringecore. One-woman musical experimentation. Maybe not fit for human consumption.

I composed and recorded the original score for First Time Caller (2022), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle Film Festival and Best Feature at the Brooklyn Sci-Fi Film Festival. I also write and perform comedy cabaret songs about sex and kink under my alter ego, Tallulah Talons. Real identity is redacted.

It's not what you know, but who you know.
And if you don't know 'em, go out and meet 'em!!!"

Anne Leighton believes that artists can work within their own means by creating their own career opportunities. And she has done that for herself via her love of mass media, as a writer, publicist and a music services person. Her roster includes Joe Deninzon/Stratospheerius, Phoebe Legere, Ian Anderson, Gary Lucas, The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Kripalu Yoga Teacher Greg O’Donovan, Grand Funk Railroad, Gentle Giant, John Hall & Orleans, Shun Ng and Magic Dick, Carmine &  Vinny Appice, Sharon Katz & the Peace Train, and herself!

After helping a variety of artists, most recently Wouter Kellerman, Jann Klose, and Alex Boye’ get on the map in North America, Anne found herself a songwriting deal with Sheer Publishing on the strength of her song, GOT MY EYE ON YOU SANTA.  She spends a lot of her time writing and producing new songs.

Anne is an active writer with four books, most recently her poetry book, THE LEIGHTON EXPLOSION (Soul Asylum Poetry, Canada). Also in her catalog are: PAWS FOR THOUGHT: UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOUR CAT IS THINKING (Rockwell Books, UK), USING YOUR ART & THE MEDIA TO COMFORT PEOPLE (Free to Run Books, US), an e-book: GET THE GIG: COMMON SENSE CONSULTING (Anne Leighton).

An active poet, she harkens back to Greek attitudes, and performs her work in the marketplace. Notable venues have included the Howl! Festival, Peter Max Studio for the HEALTHY FOOD FOR THOUGHT album release, and at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. She has studied with Billy Collins, Nadine Mouzon, Regie Gibson and Mindy Matijasevic.
She is an active keynote speaker, having shared insights on writing, creating music careers, and all aspects of the media for a number of conventions including the CMJ CONVENTION, IBS CONVENTION, EMPIRE STATE MUSIC CONFERENCE, THE MILLENIUM CONFERENCE, DIY CONVENTION, CAT WRITERS CONVENTION, and taught Entertainment Media Relations and Publicity at Baruch College.

Anne's worked in radio at WZIR-Buffalo, WRNW-Briarcliff Manor, WFUV-Bronx, WBUZ-Fredonia, and was an editor at HIT PARADER magazine, plus freelanced for a number of magazines including FELINE WELLNESS, CATFANCY, MUSCLEMAG INTERNATIONAL, INSIDE KARATE/KUNG FU, GOLDMINE, and CREEM. Her plays include REACH FOR THE SUN, which was performed by Poets Repertory Theater of Long Island, ONE WAY TO HEAVEN performed by the San Antonio Living Church, and THE PASSION OF MARY which was read at the Kingsbridge Library Center in her hometown of the Bronx, and is now published by Off the Wall Plays in the UK and South Africa.

Abstract, Surreal, Psychedelic, Technical, Progressive, Fusion, Metal, Jazz 1 man band; Jordan Saks ( Concensus Down )*Free Downloads*

"It should sound like this!"
The history of our group began in 2005, in the city of Toropets, with the appearance of our first electric guitars and a completely random acquaintance with each other.
We just loved metal and everything connected with it, it was the times of cassettes, fights for long hair and musical preferences.
At that time, we only mastered various techniques of playing the guitar and dreamed of cool equipment and universal recognition.
Listening to such teams as: Kreator, Soilwork, In flames, King diamond, Aria, Pantera, Megadeath, we puzzled over how they all play it, and how it all sounds cool,
but, we never wanted to imitate them or play something like that, we wanted to come up with our own style and direction in this huge musical variety.
 We took guitars and for many hours a day invented all sorts of reefs, transitions and all that is possible, if only it was difficult and unusual.
Our whole youth passed in an effort to create something of its own, something unusual.
During this period, hundreds of reefs and various topics were invented, which we already tried to record on tape recorders and the cheapest computer microphones,
A few years later and gradually moving to Moscow, we again took up the old, but completely different level of knowledge, the technique of the game and high-quality equipment. ... there were new guitars, cabinets, pedals, etc. ...
And so, on the eve of the new 2013, we again started writing a full-length material for our album, which we planned to release as early as the beginning of 2014, however, even then, we had no idea that it would take us much more time and energy. ...
And so, after years, we tried day by day to give music and rehearsals the lion's share of our time.
The most difficult stage, oddly enough, was the writing of the material itself.
Every time we threw out the reefs, which seemed to us not steep enough.
We told ourselves that while we ourselves will not be "rocked" from these reefs, we will never use them in our music.
We caught the very same feeling ... a shiver of reefs that can not be confused with anything else (musicians and music lovers will understand)
And, like that, day after day, overcoming domestic and other difficulties, we tried not to lose heart and went to the intended goal.
The second difficult stage in creating the album was mixing the recorded material.
It's difficult!
We clearly understood how all this should sound, but to achieve this was not an easy task!
And, again, we were guided by the principle of "inner sensations" from the sound of music.
It should sound like this!
... only by the end of 2017 we are ready to present to you what we got. Anyway - we like it, and, we are ready to show you what we got.
P.S. I would like to pay special attention to our relatives and friends who have always supported us and believed in us! Thank you!!!

"In a program of serial high points, there were too many to mention...An intriguing and hugely enjoyable evening in every way and a standout in the Washington Performing Arts Society's fine winter season."

- The Washington Post


“Their rock star status…is well deserved. Their classically honed technique mixed with grit and all out passionate attack transfixes the audience…”  That is how The Sarasota Herald Tribune described SYBARITE5, the first string quintet ever selected as a winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in its 60-year history. Comprised of Sami Merdinian and Sarah Whitney, violins; Angela Pickett, viola; Laura Metcalf, cello; and Louis Levitt, bass, SYBARITE5 has taken audiences by storm all across the US, forever changing the perception of chamber music performance. From the moment their bows hit the strings, this quintet of talented, diverse musicians takes the audience on an exciting ride that engages the senses and redefines the rules.
 
This past season, the group visited 16 states and the US Virgin Islands in addition to appearances in Newfoundland, Japan and Argentina. Other recent performance highlights include SYBARITE5's Carnegie Hall debut at Zankel Hall on the CAG series and performances at Washington Performing Arts, Library of Congress, Aspen Music Festival, UC San Diego, University of Arizona, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, University of Nevada/Reno, Chautauqua Institution, and Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival. Closer to home, the quintet has performed in New York at Lincoln Center, Time Warner Center, Tishman Auditorium, Bohemian National Hall and at such diverse locations as Galapagos Artspace, the Apple Store, the Museum of Sex, the Core Club, the cell, and the Cutting Room. The group has also performed on the CBS Early Show and for his Holiness the Dalai Lama. SYBARITE5 is one of the first groups engaged at SubCulture, one of New York City's most up-and-coming venues.
 
Ongoing projects include curating their own series at NYC's the cell, the Radiohead Remixed Project, The Shuffle Effect and New Music IDOL (featuring a series of short newly-commissioned works by student composers in collaboration with university composition departments). In May of 2014, SYBARITE5 will launch their very own musical festival, the Forward Festival, in Sarasota, Florida. At the 2011 CAG Competition, SYBARITE5 was awarded the Sylvia Ann Hewlett Adventurous Artist Prize, which was used to commission new pieces for Radiohead Remixed and to produce the CD Everything in its Right Place. In spring 2015, the quintet looks forward to premiering the world's first concerto for string quintet and orchestra by the acclaimed American composer Dan Visconti.

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