Hazel Winter took her first musical steps clad in leopard skin playing guitar for all-girl R&B covers band Gorilla My Dreams. She later graduated to playing for Bristol’s Blue Aeroplanes, with whom she toured in 1991-2.
Her solo debut album Put Away The Sharp Knives was released on Bristol-based independent label Clearwater at the end on 2000, and met with instant critical acclaim. Many of the songs were recorded on a basic 4-track in Hazels’ front room, before being overdubbed and mixed by John Parish (P.J.Harvey, Eels, Tracy Chapman) and Adrian Utley (Portishead). Other tracks were re-recorded live. Parish kept the production as raw as he could, using the spontaneity of the 4-track takes as the heart of the album.
Hazel produced her second album Death Row Bride along with new band members Stig Manley and Doug Bott. It was engineered by Portisheads Jim Barr. The drummer is Dave Burbidge. It was released on her own label Death Row Bride Records, on Feb 16th 2004, distributed by Shellshock-
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