Ken Vandermark & Terrie Ex This Is Not A Holiday

"It's a game of hopscotch while drunk on sleep deprivation. It's a dance based on inaudible, but irrepressiblerhythms. It's interaction dressed up like a call & response game wrapped up in a sparring match full of agitationand confusion. It's a manic pursuit over wobbly scaffolding, broken roof tiles or a creaking suspension bridge.It's an irregular movement that snaps, roars, drips, defies, tumbles, slithers, cajoles, interrupts, sizzles, triples,dodges, throws curveballs, causes panic, restores order, well kinda, and stutters and mutters. It's like JaapBlonk's invented Onderlands: a language that sounds familiar, but that ultimately defies comprehension. It'spart application and part imagination, it's a mystery and a trap. It's a system, perhaps, and an attempt atsomething, probably, but it's not, definitely not, a holiday. The idea!" - Guy PetersKen Vandermark (US) and Terrie `Ex' Hessels (NL) have been playing together for years. For example, theChicago reed player has been a guest with The Ex almost 100 times and the two are also part of Lean Left,an explosive improvising quartet with Andy Moor and Paal Nilssen-Love. It took them until 2014 before theywent on stage for the first time as a duo. A dozenconcerts followed on various international stagesand resulted in their first LP `Scaffolding' recordedupstairs in the Witte Villa, Wormer. Released in2019.This new release is the result of an blasting tourin Poland, 2021. Recorded live in the SARP SocialClub in Poznan. `This is not a holiday!' Eightimprovisations; eight musical adventures!