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Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Henry Spencer releases his new album, The Defector, following his band’s growing international touring schedule, radio and TV broadcasts, the increase of audiences and followers internationally, and his previous releases made with multi-GRAMMY Award-winning Dave Darlington in New York (whose credits include Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter), receiving critical acclaim internationally.

Spencer’s music touches jazz, rock, minimalism, and at times is cinematic, combining 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 wrote 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 to protect democracy, 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, tyranny and oppression.

Henry Spencer (trumpet, flugel, composition) Ant Law (guitar) Matt Robinson (piano, Fender Rhodes) Andrew Robb (bass) David Ingamells (drums) John Garner (violin) Marie Schreer (violin) Lydia Abell (viola) Colin Alexander (cello).