Release Date: 13 October 2023
Label: AMP Music & Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0701220926698
Genres: Jazz
Release Date: 13 October 2023
Label: AMP Music & Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0701220926698
Genres: Jazz
Touching jazz, rock and minimalism, the music's "astonishing dynamic variety" (Manchester Jazz Festival) combines Henry's "spectacular technique" (The Guardian), intense, raw energy and evocative outlets, with moments of intimate, heart-felt, emotionally-led, lyrical melodies - almost as if there were words being sung.
Henry Spencer composed this album inspired by defectors; whether it's the soldier deserter from an army committing war crimes, or the partner that leaves their abusive relationship for a freer life, the politician who actively challenges and leaves their party, or the North Korean dissident that chooses the life-threatening endangerment of attempting to escape, crossing the border into a completely unknown world, rather than stay living with dictatorship and oppression.
Personnel
Henry Spencer (trumpet, flugel)
Ant Law (guitar)
Matt Robinson (piano, Fender Rhodes)
Andrew Robb (bass)
David Ingamells (drums)