Alex Merritt

Saxophonist Alex Merritt leads his quartet with jazz influences from Warne Marsh, John Coltrane and Joe Henderson to contemporary classical composers Bela Bartok, Alban Berg and Henri Dutilleux. Their debut album ANATTA was released last December 2015, the concept drawn from Buddhism and described as 'a moment of awakening, whereby one can come to realise the illusory nature of self.' Should we be able to free ourselves from the fetters of self, a process described by composer and personal influence Peter Schat as like 'Houdini escaping from the straightjacket', all that is left is the moment. This is Anatta and it inspired the music for this album.