Terrie Ex - guitar
Ken Vandermark - tenor & baritone saxophone, clarinet
Live at SARP Social Club, Poznan, Poland. Recorded by Bartek Olszewski. Mastered by Arnold de BOer. Cut by Lex van coeverden at The Vinyl Room. Pressed at DiscoMat, Herk de Stad (B). Cover painting and layout: Emma Fischer. Photos: Geert Vandepoele. Thanks: Ola Traska, the Sarp crew, Catalytic Sound. All music by Ken Vandermark and Terrie Hessels.

"It's a game of hopscotch while drunk on sleep deprivation. It's a dance based on inaudible, but irrepressible rhythms. It's interaction dressed up like a call & response game wrapped up in a sparring match full of agitation and 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 Jaap Blonk's invented Onderlands: a language that sounds familiar, but that ultimately defies comprehension. It's part application and part imagination, it's a mystery and a trap. It's a system, perhaps, and an attempt at something, probably, but it's not, definitely not, a holiday. The idea!"
Guy Peters

Ken Vandermark (US) and Terrie `Ex' Hessels (NL) have been playing together for years. For example, the Chicago 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 they went on stage for the first time as a duo. A dozen concerts followed on various international stages and resulted in their first LP `Scaffolding' recorded upstairs in the Witte Villa, Wormer.

Released in 2019. This new release is the result of an blasting tour in Poland, 2021.
Recorded live in the SARP Social Club in Poznan.

`This is not a holiday!' Eight improvisations; eight musical adventures!