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This self-described "neo-fusion" band has been together, playing sporadically and having an ambivalent relationship with the idea of a binding stylistic description, since 1992. The band started a hiatus when founding member Brad Rabuchin joined Ray Charles' band... further plans are slowly materializing...
Lean-To's debut CD, Malarchitecture, features guest cameos by percussionist Airto Moreira, singers Glen Phillips, Ellen Turner and Bruce Winter, and tuba-ist Trey Henry. At root, it's a two-guitar band with a multiple personality condition. Check out their or the Splendid e-zine review.
Lean-To is: Brad Rabuchin, guitar and guitar synthesizer, Joe Woodard, guitars, Bob Mair, bass (or other pinch-hitters), and Tom Lackner, drums. Rabuchin is a busy fellow, plectricizing around Los Angeles and with Ray Charles, while Mair keeps busy in a delirious plenitude of areas, including work with the noted Nels Cline Trio. Lackner and Woodard keep off and on the streets of Santa Barbara.
"It's as if rock-period Brian Eno and Frank Zappa at his kookiest were fighting over the radio dial. Lean-To offer up a unique, and not unpleasing, mix of the accessible and the avant-garde. A more grounded drummer would find them on poppier ground than they may want to inhabit."
--blurb from www.listen.com
Lean-To, Malarchitecture
$12. (postage paid), HI-121
1. Lincoln Logs (Woodard) (mp3) 2. Goleta Factor (Woodard) 3. Memory Garden (Lean-To) 4. The Beauty of Nuts (Woodard); Ellen Turner, vocal, Airto Moreira, percussion (mp3) 5. Luxury of Time (Woodard); Airto Moreira, percussion 6. Gabriel (Lackner) (mp3) 7. Get Out and Stay Out (Rabuchin) (mp3) 8. Wig (Mair) (mp3) 9. Hungry Ghosts (Lackner/Woodard); Bruce Winter, vocal 10. #26 (Rabuchin) 11. Barter a Samba (Woodard); Airto Moreira, percussion 12. Bring Grandma (Woodard) (mp3) 13. The Kindness of Strangers (Woodard); Glen Philips, vocal, Ellen Turner, vocal, Trey Henry, tuba mp3
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