Per Shrike Records esce anche l'atteso album di Albert Newton - ovvero Charles Hayward, John Edwards e Pat Thomas - If Only Silence Was Round, registrato dai tre la scorsa estate e dedicato al compianto Harry Beckett (1935-2010), che fu con loro nell'iniziale formazione in quartetto.
Albert Newton is immediate, compelling and enticing. Initially a quartet comprising Harry Beckett trumpet, Pat Thomas keyboards, John Edwards double bass and Charles Hayward drums. This strong music continues and develop across a wide range of audiences and spaces including palatial cultural cathedrals, social dance events and scruffy South London pubs, a conscious strategy to break divisions put in place by an avante garde elite eager to maintain a cultural schism that confirms an avante garde elite. Since the death of Harry Beckett in 2010, the group remain a trio, leaving intriguing and mysterious gaps in the music, working its way slowly back from a ‘music of absence’ towards a place of resistance and communal joy live in the moment: verve, groove, conviction and strength. Albert Newton: 3 extreme and imaginative musicians in a joyous celebration of creative telepathy building music beyond. The quantum confronts the funk.
https://shrikerecords.bandcamp.com/if-only-silence-was-round