Award winning saxophonist and composer Binker Golding returns to Byrd Out with a new trio comprising giants of the experimental scene Steve Noble and John Edwards for an album of unparalleled instant creativity: 'Moon Day'. The album plays with the post truth zeitgeist, using the first major moon conspiracy of 1835 as a launch pad, throwing a sly wink at Buzz Aldrin as the trio impart on their own musical odyssey. The sheer variety of pace, tone and texture across the record is breathtaking, from Golding’s soft, almost weightless opening on ‘One Giant Step’ through to the skittish re-entry of ‘Reflection’ as the musicians ricochet off one another, the album bursts with ideas and energy, yet remains coherent and singular in its purpose. Recorded during a gap between the various lockdowns of 2020, you can sense the release from the musicians as they combine after enforced isolation with a telepathic sense of where to push each other: Noble interjecting both chaos and order from the drums; Edwards the rocket fuel propelling the unit on; and Golding soaring and cutting through on sax. You will not find a better showcase of these musicians’ phenomenal abilities. This is free jazz at its most compelling and most engaging. ‘Moon Day’ is undoubtedly a future jazz classic.
The album is coming out on Byrd Out 9 April 2021 on a limited vinyl run and digital, preceded by ‘For S.K. (Stage H Edit)’ as a digital single on 3 March. Original artwork by Binker Golding.releases April 9, 2021

Binker Golding - Saxophone
John Edwards - Double Bass
Steve Noble - Drums
Artwork - Binker Golding
Sound Engineers - Dotan Cohen, Harry Loughlin

Otomo Yoshihide - Guitar
Sachiko M - Sine Waves
Evan Parker - Saxophones
John Edwards - Double Bass
Tony Marsh - Drums
John Butcher - Saxophones (Side B)
The final night of Otomo and Sachiko's first residency in 2009 saw the pair joined by the long running trio of Evan Parker, John Edwards and Tony Marsh and special guest John Butcher. Butcher played duos with both Otomo and Sachiko (available as download only bonus tracks) and joined the quintet for a rousing sextet: stunning twin saxophone interplay, the unparalleled open-ness of the Marsh/Edwards rhythm pairing, Sachiko's deft high frequency interventions and Otomo's guitar at the centre - moving between abrasive textural invention and suggestive single note runs of ever-shifting melody.

Double Bass – John Edwards
Drums, Percussion – Mark Sanders
Guitar – John Russell
Layout – Jost Gebers
Liner Notes – Victor Schonfield
Liner Notes [Translation] – Isabel Seeberg, Paul Lytton
Music By – Parker, Edwards, Russell, Sanders
Painting [Cover] – Phil Morsman
Photography By – Dagmar Gebers
Producer – Evan Parker, Jost Gebers
Recorded By, Mixed By – Steve Lowe
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Evan Parker
Recorded on December 20, 1996 and mixed on March 7, 1997 at the Gateway Studios, London

Bass – John Edwards
Cello – Marcio Mattos
Clarinet – Alan Hacker, Tony Coe
Flugelhorn – Kenny Wheeler
Painting – Phil Morsman
Photography By – Caroline Forbes
Recorded By – Chris Trent
Soprano Saxophone – Evan Parker
Violin, Electronics – Philipp Wachsmann
Violin, Voice, Sarangi – Sylvia Hallett
Duos, quartets and quintets of free improvisation recorded 27 July 2003 in Ancient Space, St. Michael's Church, Appleby, England.

John Tchicai / saxophones, flute
John Edwards / double bass
Tony Marsh / drums
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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on 27 September 2010 by James Dunn. Mastered by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx, Berlin. Photograph by Nicholas Lativy.

Companies, etc.
Recorded At – Old Cinema, Walthamstow
Credits
Artwork – Oliver Bancroft
Double Bass – John Edwards
Engineer [Sound Engineer] – Thomas Hope
Guitar – John Russell
Saxophone [Saxophones] – Evan Parker
Notes
limited run of 300
Recorded 23 November 2016, at the old Cinema in Walthamstow

Design – Peter Broetzmann
Double Bass – John Edwards
Drums – Steve Noble
Mastered By – Andreas (Lupo) Lubich
Mixed By – John Edwards
Music By – Edwards*, Broetzmann*, Noble
Photography By [Photo] – Kirill Polonsky
Recorded By – Shane Browne
Reeds – Peter Broetzmann

Composed By [All Compositions By The Musicians] – Hyelim Kim, John Edwards, Mark Sanders
Daegeum – Hyelim Kim
Double Bass – John Edwards
Drums, Percussion – Mark Sanders
Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Alex Ward (5)
Comes in trifold cardboard digisleeve. Limited to 200 copies.
Recorded at the Vortex jazz Club 28/09/2022
Dedicated to the great composer, bass player
and friend Simon H Fell