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Lean Left (Now with added No Spill Blood!)

Ian Maleney
Posted September 13, 2012 in Gig Previews

St. Patrick’s 2025 panorama
St. Patrick’s 2025 panorama

What do you get when you combine the guitarists of pivotal Dutch post-punks The Ex with free jazz improv legends Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love? You get a sonic maelstrom, a rush of blood from the heart and a buzzing in your ears for days. You get Lean Left.

Leading with the harshest of guitar noise, they are propelled along by the frantic post-jazz drumming of Nilssen-Love while Ken Vandermark’s piping saxophone weaves in and out of the noise, occasionally bursting into glorious melody before being swallowed again by the tumultuous ocean of noise. It’s a physically and mentally-captivating experience, where surrender is the only option. The sea makes perfect sense when you’re floating on the waves.

Newsflash: No Spill Blood will be opening proceedings tomorrow night! Now that’s a spicy meatball.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KSrPblj_HM?rel=0]

Where: Upstairs At Whelan’s

When: Tuesday, 18th Sept.

The Damage: €16

http://www.whelanslive.com/index.php/archives/13731

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