LEAN LEFT (Uk/Us/No/nl) + ILLUSION OF SAFETY (us)
friday 24 november 2023
LEAN LEFT (Uk/Us/No/nl)
ILLUSION OF SAFETY
LEAN LEFT
LEAN LEFT throws together two explosive duos - the free-jazz sax/drums collision course of Chicago saxophonist Ken Vandermark and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love with the pile-driving 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.
The foursome crashes along sometimes creating a cacophonous racket but always musical and always ready to change direction or turn a new corner. The music of LEAN LEFT is extroverted, energetic, powerful and inclusive but also confrontational and provocative: where rhythm, noise, melody and harmony melt together in perfect union.
Or as English comedic genius Stewart Lee stated about the band, "jazz theorizing be damned, its like being 18 again".
LEAN LEFT is:
Terrie Ex – left guitar
Ken Vandermark – tenor saxophone – baritone saxophone – B clarinet
Paal Nilssen Love – Drums
Andy Moor – right guitar
https://pnlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/medemer
https://trostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/l-forgot-to-breathe
Lean Left in action, Instants Chavirés, Paris, September 17, 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJshe8jx0E
ILLUSION OF SAFETY altering the doors of perception
Since 1983 ILLUSION OF SAFETY has been the ongoing project of Daniel Burke (b.1960) working alone and with many collaborators. Like many projects of a certain age it frustrates attempts at pat summation. Their music is the terra incognita where sound, silence, noise and music intersect. Using conventional instruments, sound generating devices and random objects, IOS hews sonic sculptures that deliberately provoke, mesmerize and confront listeners. Releasing over 30 full length records, tapes, and CD’s on Complacency, Odd-Size, Staalplaat, Tesco, Silent, Soleilmoon, Korm Plastics, Experimedia, Waystyx, Drone, and No Part Of It. Performing over 300 live concerts throughout Europe and the states. Notable performances included No Fun 2008, the Wroclaw Industrial Music Festival 2009, Sonic Circuits in 2010, and In collaboration with Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2011, for his work Still Moving, Burke performed live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC with a six channel surround system. Outside of IOS Burke has collaborated with Jon Mueller, Randy Greif, Darin Gray, Z’EV, Cheer-Accident, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, Jeff Jerman, Eric Lunde, Bill Horist, Al Margolis, Olivia Block, Travis Bird, and others.
The most recent IOS studio recordings New Rules, Same Game, Less Instruction was the second release in the new CD series “SYM” from Drone Records, released early 2022. Just released as 12″ vinyl late 2022 on No Part Of It is the long awaited collaboration between Z’EV and IOS. A mail collaboration begun in 2008 & finalized in 2012 with beautiful package artwork by Bradley Kokay.
https://illusionofsafety.bandcamp.com/album/illusion-of-safety-zev
https://illusionofsafety.bandcamp.com/
DJ DIDJU /be