Sarà distribuito in cd a partire solo da agosto, ma in formato digitale lo si può già ascoltare tramite Bandcamp: è l'atteso album del sassofonista Marc Hadley - il primo realizzato a proprio nome come titolare - contenente tra mille riferimenti hatfieldiani anche le ultime registrazioni in studio del compianto Phil Miller: How To Cut Water.
L'autore ne parla per esteso a Phil Howitt per Facelift: "This record was inspired by my time playing with Phil Miller, who had a built-in preference for the road less-travelled, thus he might choose to write a 5/4 melody rather than a 4/4. My connection to Phil came via bassist Jack Monck; the first bassist in one of the Canterbury origin bands, Delivery. After decades of orbiting one another, Phil, Jack, the late Paul Dufour, and I finally formed a quartet, recording a studio demo in 2016. Following Phil’s death in 2017, I was left with a sense of unfinished business. We had a collection of tunes to which Phil had been a generous contributor, including the enigmatically challenging piece he called Thing in 5. To capture Phil’s lifetime of fluid, evolving influence felt like a creative and emotional attempt at “cutting water” - trying to impose shape on an element that inherently resists it. I’ve felt at times with my own writing that I’m actually fishing for something I didn’t conceive but already exists - it just doesn’t want to linger in one place and time very long."
https://marchadley.co.uk
https://marchadley.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-cut-water
https://canterburyscene.com/an-interview-with-marc-hadley
