Anna Homler, Steve Moshier Yesh'Te (1985)
The language Anna Homler sings in came naturally to her, the LA-based performance artist and singer once explained. Although it sounds a bit like Hawaiian, the language is not spoken by anyone other than Homler. It was in the mid 1980s while driving around in the Cadillac she turned into an underwater shrine for one of her performances: Homler recorded the language she chanted on her cassette player. Later she asked composer Steve Moshier to arrange the recordings into songs. During that time Homler also felt an overwhelming urge to wear bread. Which she actually did eventually: She started sporting a bread mask while performing. Breadwoman was born. Five of the songs that Breadwoman would stage—among them “Yesh’Te”—made it on a small run of tapes that the artist published herself. But it would take another 30 years until the mystic songs would reach a wider audience when a boutique label in New York re-published them in 2016.
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