Sleeve notes by Stew for this blistering live set by American-Dutch-Scandinavian free-improv quartet.
The Ex guitars meet Nilssen-Love/Vandermark Duo.
Lean Left throws together two explosive duos – the sax/drums collision course of Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilsson-Love with the piledriving guitarists from The Ex – to make up a positively apocalyptic quartet: an elemental musical force featuring Grade A international players zoning in and scrambling together rock, jazz, noise and blistering free improv into a highly-charged onstage assault, each member taking their sounds and bodies to the edge and often snapping out of the wilds and into glorious passages of regular rhythm. Recorded live at Café Oto, London in 2011.
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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