Born in NYC, raised in London and Amsterdam, Robert Leslie left home at a young age and spent two years supporting himself as a traveling street performer, ping-ponging with the seasons between northern Europe and Morocco, finally winding up in Brooklyn. Since arriving stateside he’s made himself a well-known figure in both the venues and the streets of NYC while touring across three continents and yodeling his heart out to crowds large & small.
Leslie is back with a new single “In Another Light” that taps deeply into the rich arrangements of the 60’s British folk scene while still leaving room for the “American primitive” sound of John Fahey. Leslie is not afraid to hit the road to play his music and he allows his influences gained crisscrossing the globe to clearly come through on the songwriting.
“I’d say the song was kinda a peaceful rumination on the empty streets, lots, weeds, & human detritus of NYC during COVID… And being in love in the middle of it, the surreal topsy-turvy suspense of it all, “see you moonstruck in black lipstick, my sweet little clown / holding up your funhouse mirror, dressing me down,” says Leslie.
