Janel Leppin (born 1981)[1] 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.

"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.

"Ethereal..conversational magic" - The Village Voice, "A beguiling, thoughtfully crafted album" - BBC ClassicalThe Brink (Shiny Boy, 2023) is Leppin's first solo cello recording and was performed live without overdubs.

"Art Holds Her Hand, a funereal paced and sombre death march, atop which Janel’s lilting ice maiden tones lull us into the land of Morpheus with impressionistic tales of the primal forces of Nature."

The group was premiered before a sold-out crowd at the legendary Bohemian Caverns in Washington D.C. to rave reviews, being called "Aaah-vant Garde [sic] at its finest.

The mix of chamber jazz, art rock, contemporary classical, and electronic music are merely facets through which the melodies becomes focused, like glass soaking in sunbeams and spitting it back out in a prismatic light show.

plays cello on "So Long and Far Away" “Nadler has enlisted some sturdy female clout for this record, including Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten for vocal cameos.