Thursday 16 November 2023

Lenny White – The Venusian Summer Suite


Lenny White – The Venusian Summer Suite (1975)
A jazz-rock-fusion bomb. Opening with the epic four and a half minute space-y horror movie synth goodness then it's a funky cosmic voodoo trip worthy of 70s Miles, which makes plenty sense as Lenny White's drummage featured on Bitches Brew. Superfly bass and flute with insane synth guitar breaks follow.


Lenny White - Mating Drive (1975)
The children of Bitches Brew supply more tasty cyber-superfly fusion. This time it gets brutal, intense and dark. 

Peak jazz rock fusion for existential urban night driving with the possibility of violence.

Mating Drive is nearly fifty years old and yet it still sounds like the future to me. Imagine if overrated tosh like The Smile was fifty years ahead of its time instead of over fifty years behind it?

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