Leni Stern - 4

Leni Stern - 4Vinyl LP pressing. Guitarist vocalist Leni Stern dubbed "a genre defying adventurer" by Guitar Player magazine has been on an evolutionary road over the past decade plus, fusing her long honed contemporary jazz sound with a deeply felt exploration of West African styles. The Munich born New Yorker's transatlantic journey has yielded a fresh, personal idiom, one where progressive virtuosity blends seamlessly with age old folk traditions. Leni's trio

Archive collection from the punk legends

"I tried to present her with a flexible situation

It's a small snapshot of childhood complete with nostalgic references to summertime hot dogs and wandering the city but set to an explosive

But we were wrong to ever take Quasi for granted

it’s got that straight-to-tape magic that fans of vintage sound crave

and Maroon 5

was the first to provide Sir John Eliot Gardiner a really productive canvas on which to express himself

Freedom Dub

The album boasts 12 hard driving traditional bluegrass tracks

Satin Soul

yet another tour-de-force that clearly demonstrates that musical experimentation

Recorded at Green Door studios in Glasgow (where the two met) and layered with the analogue production techniques learned on the first youth unemployment programme there