In anticipation of Lee Van Kleef: "Holy Smoke" Vinyl release date:11/25/2016

Thank the maker for youtube. I believe all of us have sang that praise many times over, with it came the capability of finding hundreds of bands we wouldn't have ever had the slightest chance of being exposed to. Bands so obscure and localized that their name wouldn't have normally carried further than a hundred miles of their hometown now have the capability of reaching the furthest corners of the globe, thus the potential for greater audiences. Or so you'd think.
Along with the unlimited distribution capabilities also came an infinite supply of every flavor of music, along with any and all sub-divisions of sub-genres and any and all combinations there of, you would need to be a very special kind of boring not to have more than a hundred times your own lifetime's worth of new material to sift through.
If one could do that. Humans need time to eat, sleep, shit, you get the picture.
What follows is just another one of those examples.
Don't know how I got there, wouldn't even be able to speculate, but I recently stumbled upon a stoner-rock/70's kinda wah-pedal guitar jam type outfit (I think that's a valid summation) going by the name of Lee Van Kleef. Normaly by the time shit finds it's way to my desk, it's been around for a bit (at least a year or so), but this time, I happened upon it before it's release! (vinyl is due Nov. 25th, 2016. Download is already available from Bandcamp:
https://leevancleefjams.bandcamp.com/album/holy-smoke
The vinyl will be released by White Dwarf records in an extremely limited edition of 165 copies on purpel vinyl, another 350 on black.

From the White Dwarf website: "The project Lee Van Kleef was born as a joke at the end of 2015 and is the result of long jam sessions between Marco Adamo, guitarist (La Povere de Bodele), Guido Minervini, drums (Efesto, Lamark) and Petro La Tegola, bass (Whiskeycold Winter). Influenced by bands like Earthless, Black Bombaim, Harsh Toke (to name a few) the first work: "Holy Smoke" was recorded, mixed, and mastered in Godfather Studio of Naples. The artwork was done by Robert Gnista."

"When I read the press release with its mention of Earthless, Black Bombain etc I'll admit to bit a bit skeptical - those are big names to throw around. However, on listening it soon became evident that these guys know how to rock! The musicianship is superb and the sound they create is huge. They have taken the general structure of heavy psych and jammed around the theme to create a monster of a record. I think that Lee Van Cleef can be added to the roster of the best acid bands around."
Dayz Of Purple And Orange