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January 16, 2026

"Music for me is a manifestation
Of the inexplicable mystery of life and being."
— Alexander Zethson



 Essential Artists

• Aly Berry
• Alvin Curran/Andrea Centazzo/Evan Parker
• +DOG+/Bastard Noise
• Stephen Flinn/Sylvain Monchoce/Jung-Jae Kim
• Joo Haeun
• Orlov-Davydovsky, Georgy
• Evan Parker/Andrea Centazzo
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Erhard Hirt/Guilherme Rodrigues
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Guilherme Rodrigues
• Rodrigues/Ferreira/Santos/Trinite
• Rodrigues/Kim/Rodrigues/Bauer/Flinn
• Signal Lapidaire (Sanchez/Loubatiere)
• Studer/Strinning/Weber
• Alexander Zethson/thanatosis produktion

 Essential Labels

577 Records
Creative Sources
FMR

Ictus Remastered Collection
Love Earth Music
thanatosis produktion



 New Releases





   Jazz & Improvisation

Berry, Aly: Hope This Reaches You in Time?
(FMR)


Recorded with a handpicked ensemble of well-known jazz musicians, vocalist and lyricist Aly Berry presents a debut that draws on classic jazz phrasing with a contemporary, observational touch, her storytelling framed by performances from Dave Green, Scott Hamilton, Andy Watson, Natalie Rozario, and Neil Bullock in a polished, traditionally rooted jazz setting.
   
Buy $14.95 Listen

 
Curran, Alvin / Andrea Centazzo / Evan Parker: Real Time [VINYL]
(Ictus Remastered Collection)


Captured on the trio's December 12-13, 1977 Rome dates, Alvin Curran's piano, trumpet and synthesizer set melodic fragments and minimalist pulses in motion while Evan Parker and Andrea Centazzo answer with spiralling sax multiphonics and electrified percussion, the three languages finding a volatile common ground where groove, texture and rupture keep swapping roles in real time.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $32.95 Listen

 
Curran, Alvin / Andrea Centazzo / Evan Parker: Real Time Two [VINYL]
(Ictus Remastered Collection)


Recorded on December 14, 1977 in Pistoia's cavernous, half-empty sports pavilion, the Curran/Centazzo/Parker trio plays with surprising translucence as piano and synth glint, trumpet flashes, sax lines braid into overtones, and percussion radiates in airy space, the room's unlikely acoustics giving the music an ethereal transparency that makes every attack, shimmer and sudden silence feel magnified.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $32.95 Listen

 
Flinn, Stephen / Sylvain Monchoce / Jung-Jae Kim : Quark
(Creative Sources)


Through delicately balanced free improvisation, American percussionist Stephen Flinn, French reed and flute player Sylvain Monchocé, and South Korean tenor saxophonist Jung-Jae Kim cultivate a finely grained sonic environment shaped by breath, touch, and resonance, where small gestures, spatial awareness, and attentive silence coalesce into quietly immersive and meticulously detailed acoustic forms.
   
Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Haeun, Joo: Just Gravity
(577 Records)


Balancing structure and spontaneity, pianist Haeun Joo presents an intimate and searching debut that moves between lyrical solo piano improvisations and sensitively interactive trio pieces with bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Steven Crammer, capturing music made fully in the moment with clarity, restraint, and a quietly compelling sense of forward motion.
   
Buy $16.00 Listen

 
Parker, Evan / Andrea Centazzo: Bullfighting On Ice! Live In Padova 1977 [VINYL]
(Ictus Remastered Collection)


Restored from the December 12, 1977 Padova concert, Evan Parker's soprano/tenor torrents collide with Andrea Centazzo's percussion and electronics, turning audience heckles into rocket fuel as long, scorching sequences leap from whispering key-click detail to volcanic blasts, capturing a decisive moment when Italy's free scene opened wide to Northern Europe's most inventive sax voice.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $32.95 Listen

 
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Erhard Hirt / Guilherme Rodrigues: Munster
(Creative Sources)


Recorded live at BLACK BOX in Münster, the trio of Ernesto Rodrigues (viola, crackle box), Erhard Hirt (electric guitar, electronics), and Guilherme Rodrigues (cello, objects) unfolds a focused, textural improvisation where tactile electronics, bowed strings, and percussive gestures move from fragile passages toward denser mechanical motion, shaping a richly detailed sonic environment with subtly shifting momentum.
   
Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues: Pico
(Creative Sources)


Portuguese improvisers Ernesto Rodrigues and son Guilherme Rodrigues juxtapose a live Berlin performance with field recordings from Pico Island in a quietly probing duo set where viola, cello, crackle box, and environmental sound blend in austere, texture-driven improvisations that move between subtle acoustic detail and atmospheric ambiguity.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Ines Ferreira / Carlos Santos / Monsieur Trinite: Cimetiere des Bateaux
(Creative Sources)


Recorded live at Lisbon's Cossoul during the Creative Sources Improvised Music Series, Ernesto Rodrigues (viola, crackle box, objects), Inês Ferreira (violin, whistle), Carlos Santos (modular synth), and Monsieur Trinité (percussion) shape a single, textural improvisation where austere string detail, small percussion, and unstable electronics drift from near-silence into sharper, eccentric turns.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Jung-Jae Kim / Guilherme Rodrigues / Eric Bauer / Stephen Flinn: 5 In The Afternoon [2CDs]
(Creative Sources)


Recorded live in Berlin by Bryan Eubanks, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, Jung-Jae Kim, Eric Bauer, and Stephen Flinn shape six long-form improvisations from bowed grain, air tones, faint circuitry, and brushed resonance, letting micro-events and room sound accumulate into a patient, quietly luminous architecture of texture and space.
   
Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Signal Lapidaire (Sanchez / Loubatiere): Signal Lapidaire
(Creative Sources)


Minimal yet potent, Spanish cellist Paula Sánchez and French percussionist Rodolphe Loubatière engage in a direct, viscerally charged interplay that foregrounds extended techniques, physical resonance, and deep listening, forging an intimate, exploratory sound world where texture and gesture outweigh convention and form.
   
Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Studer / Strinning / Weber: Cut
(Creative Sources)


Austere yet deeply communicative, this trio session pairs Swiss double bassist Daniel Studer's articulate resonance with Swiss/Swedish Sebastian Strinning's expansive reed textures and German drummer Daniel Weber's perceptive, responsive interaction, forging improvised soundscapes defined by attentive gesture, shifting timbres, and the eloquence of silence itself.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $16.95 Listen

 




   Experimental/Electronic

+DOG+ / Bastard Noise: Our Mothers Unstoppable Revenge
(Love Earth Music)


Recorded, mixed, and edited at Speed Semen Clove Factory in late 2024, Steve Davis (+DOG+) and Eric Wood (Bastard Noise) deliver two extended pieces of harsh electronics and processed sound, driven by abrasive vocals and bleak, mantra-like text, as dense noise pressure and corrosive timbral detail evolve over long durations into a sustained, confrontational sonic mass.
   
Buy $9.95 Listen

 
Orlov-Davydovsky, Georgy: Borderline Psychosonic Environments
(Love Earth Music)


Working alone with electronics, radios, field recordings, homemade instruments, and voice, Georgy Orlov-Davydovsky constructs immersive electro-acoustic pieces shaped by specific physical environments, layering noise, drone, and fragile gestures into meditative sound narratives that explore borderline psychosonic listening states through dense textures and unstable sonic detail.
   
Buy $9.95 Listen

 




   Jazz & Improvisation

Berry, Aly: Hope This Reaches You in Time?
(FMR)


Recorded with a handpicked ensemble of well-known jazz musicians, vocalist and lyricist Aly Berry presents a debut that draws on classic jazz phrasing with a contemporary, observational touch, her storytelling framed by performances from Dave Green, Scott Hamilton, Andy Watson, Natalie Rozario, and Neil Bullock in a polished, traditionally rooted jazz setting.
   
Buy $14.95 Listen

 
Curran, Alvin / Andrea Centazzo / Evan Parker: Real Time [VINYL]
(Ictus Remastered Collection)


Captured on the trio's December 12-13, 1977 Rome dates, Alvin Curran's piano, trumpet and synthesizer set melodic fragments and minimalist pulses in motion while Evan Parker and Andrea Centazzo answer with spiralling sax multiphonics and electrified percussion, the three languages finding a volatile common ground where groove, texture and rupture keep swapping roles in real time.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $32.95 Listen

 
Curran, Alvin / Andrea Centazzo / Evan Parker: Real Time Two [VINYL]
(Ictus Remastered Collection)


Recorded on December 14, 1977 in Pistoia's cavernous, half-empty sports pavilion, the Curran/Centazzo/Parker trio plays with surprising translucence as piano and synth glint, trumpet flashes, sax lines braid into overtones, and percussion radiates in airy space, the room's unlikely acoustics giving the music an ethereal transparency that makes every attack, shimmer and sudden silence feel magnified.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $32.95 Listen

 
Flinn, Stephen / Sylvain Monchoce / Jung-Jae Kim : Quark
(Creative Sources)


Through delicately balanced free improvisation, American percussionist Stephen Flinn, French reed and flute player Sylvain Monchocé, and South Korean tenor saxophonist Jung-Jae Kim cultivate a finely grained sonic environment shaped by breath, touch, and resonance, where small gestures, spatial awareness, and attentive silence coalesce into quietly immersive and meticulously detailed acoustic forms.
   
Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Haeun, Joo: Just Gravity
(577 Records)


Balancing structure and spontaneity, pianist Haeun Joo presents an intimate and searching debut that moves between lyrical solo piano improvisations and sensitively interactive trio pieces with bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Steven Crammer, capturing music made fully in the moment with clarity, restraint, and a quietly compelling sense of forward motion.
   
Buy $16.00 Listen

 
Parker, Evan / Andrea Centazzo: Bullfighting On Ice! Live In Padova 1977 [VINYL]
(Ictus Remastered Collection)


Restored from the December 12, 1977 Padova concert, Evan Parker's soprano/tenor torrents collide with Andrea Centazzo's percussion and electronics, turning audience heckles into rocket fuel as long, scorching sequences leap from whispering key-click detail to volcanic blasts, capturing a decisive moment when Italy's free scene opened wide to Northern Europe's most inventive sax voice.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $32.95 Listen

 
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Erhard Hirt / Guilherme Rodrigues: Munster
(Creative Sources)


Recorded live at BLACK BOX in Münster, the trio of Ernesto Rodrigues (viola, crackle box), Erhard Hirt (electric guitar, electronics), and Guilherme Rodrigues (cello, objects) unfolds a focused, textural improvisation where tactile electronics, bowed strings, and percussive gestures move from fragile passages toward denser mechanical motion, shaping a richly detailed sonic environment with subtly shifting momentum.
   
Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues: Pico
(Creative Sources)


Portuguese improvisers Ernesto Rodrigues and son Guilherme Rodrigues juxtapose a live Berlin performance with field recordings from Pico Island in a quietly probing duo set where viola, cello, crackle box, and environmental sound blend in austere, texture-driven improvisations that move between subtle acoustic detail and atmospheric ambiguity.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Ines Ferreira / Carlos Santos / Monsieur Trinite: Cimetiere des Bateaux
(Creative Sources)


Recorded live at Lisbon's Cossoul during the Creative Sources Improvised Music Series, Ernesto Rodrigues (viola, crackle box, objects), Inês Ferreira (violin, whistle), Carlos Santos (modular synth), and Monsieur Trinité (percussion) shape a single, textural improvisation where austere string detail, small percussion, and unstable electronics drift from near-silence into sharper, eccentric turns.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Jung-Jae Kim / Guilherme Rodrigues / Eric Bauer / Stephen Flinn: 5 In The Afternoon [2CDs]
(Creative Sources)


Recorded live in Berlin by Bryan Eubanks, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, Jung-Jae Kim, Eric Bauer, and Stephen Flinn shape six long-form improvisations from bowed grain, air tones, faint circuitry, and brushed resonance, letting micro-events and room sound accumulate into a patient, quietly luminous architecture of texture and space.
   
Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Signal Lapidaire (Sanchez / Loubatiere): Signal Lapidaire
(Creative Sources)


Minimal yet potent, Spanish cellist Paula Sánchez and French percussionist Rodolphe Loubatière engage in a direct, viscerally charged interplay that foregrounds extended techniques, physical resonance, and deep listening, forging an intimate, exploratory sound world where texture and gesture outweigh convention and form.
   
Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Studer / Strinning / Weber: Cut
(Creative Sources)


Austere yet deeply communicative, this trio session pairs Swiss double bassist Daniel Studer's articulate resonance with Swiss/Swedish Sebastian Strinning's expansive reed textures and German drummer Daniel Weber's perceptive, responsive interaction, forging improvised soundscapes defined by attentive gesture, shifting timbres, and the eloquence of silence itself.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $16.95 Listen

 




   Experimental/Electronic

+DOG+ / Bastard Noise: Our Mothers Unstoppable Revenge
(Love Earth Music)


Recorded, mixed, and edited at Speed Semen Clove Factory in late 2024, Steve Davis (+DOG+) and Eric Wood (Bastard Noise) deliver two extended pieces of harsh electronics and processed sound, driven by abrasive vocals and bleak, mantra-like text, as dense noise pressure and corrosive timbral detail evolve over long durations into a sustained, confrontational sonic mass.
   
Buy $9.95 Listen

 
Orlov-Davydovsky, Georgy: Borderline Psychosonic Environments
(Love Earth Music)


Working alone with electronics, radios, field recordings, homemade instruments, and voice, Georgy Orlov-Davydovsky constructs immersive electro-acoustic pieces shaped by specific physical environments, layering noise, drone, and fragile gestures into meditative sound narratives that explore borderline psychosonic listening states through dense textures and unstable sonic detail.
   
Buy $9.95 Listen

 




   Focus on Alexander Zethson & Thanatosis Produktion

Alex Zethson

Alex (Alexander) Zethson is a Swedish pianist, keyboardist, and composer active in contemporary jazz, improvised, and experimental music. Based in Stockholm, he is a long-standing member of ensembles including Angles (notably Angles 9 and related iterations), Goran Kajfeš Tropiques, Fire! Orchestra, Je Suis!, VÖ, and Yokada, and can also be heard in collaborations with artists such as Sven Wunder and Mariam the Believer. Zethson performs frequently as a solo artist and works across a wide range of acoustic and electronic contexts. In addition to his performance and compositional work, he is a concert organiser and runs the Thanatosis Produktion record label. He completed his studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he earned degrees in jazz performance.

This week we published an Interview with Alexander Zethson on The Squid's Ear

Below is a selection of releases featuring Alex Zethson as a leader, collaborator, or sideman, along with titles issued on Thanatosis Produktion.

Zethson, Alex Ensemble: Some Of Them Were Never Unprepared [VINYL]
(thanatosis produktion)


Exploring how a composition can provide a sense of weightlessness, and influenced by the music of gamelan, krautrock, Tony Conrad & Arnold Dreyblatt, composer Alex Zethson structured these works to influence the 13 performers in his ensemble into a state of intense focus and listening as they strike, bow and pluck their instruments, creating an ecstatic sense of infinite motion.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $24.95 Listen

 
Talp, Linnea: Arch Of Motion
(thanatosis produktion)


Performed with Stockholm musicians including pianist Alexander Zethson, wind player Martin Küchen and trombonist Mats Äleklint, organist Linnéa Talp explores the areas of sound that emulate breathing, push/pull or back & forth motion, in eight beautifully paced recordings led by the organ's rich and microtonal vibrations & timbre and imbued by the contributor's subtle additions.
   
Buy $13.95 Listen

 

Zethson, Alex: Residy
(thanatosis produktion)


The Residy, or remains of a unique variation on JS Bach's Goldberg Variation no. 21, performed live by pianist Alex Zethson who maintains the structure, rhythmic movement and note order of Bach's composition, while dispersing the notes and intervals into two synths and an E-bowed grand piano to evoke these meditative and expansive interpretations.
   
Buy $13.95 Listen

 
VO (Zethson / Hogberg / Berthling / Sander): The Sounds Of VO [2 CDS]
(thanatosis produktion)


A rare mix of collective and chamber approaches to free improvisation from the Swedish sextet VÖ of Eva Lindal on violin, Anna Hogberg on alto saxophone, Johan Berthling on double bass, Leo Svensson Sander on cello, Alexander Zethson on piano & pump organ and Giannis Arapis on acoustic guitar, performing deeply introspective conversations that explore modernity and tradition.
   
Buy $21.95 Listen

 

Zethson, Alex: Terje
(Supertraditional)


Two movements from a live score for the classic silent film Terje Vigen by Sjöström composed and produced by Swedish pianist & keyboardist Alex Zethson (Angles 9, VÖ, Fire! Orchestra), two long-form tracks of dark and sombre, pulsating folk-drone featuring Norwegian vocal ensemble EMBLA plus appearances by, i.e., Christer Bothén, Kristin Amparo Sundberg and Goran Kajfeš.
   
Buy $9.95 Listen

 
Bromander, Vilhelm: In This Forever Unfolding Moment [VINYL]
(thanatosis produktion)


Drawing on ideas from the 60s and 70--Ornette Coleman, John and Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry, and Charlie Haden--bassist Vilhelm Bromander assembles an accomplished ensemble of Stockholm improvisers to perform three works of warmth and spiritual power, incorporating jazz, world and contemporary music in a stunning and rich album that exudes a wealth of experience and musical clarity.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $24.95 Listen

 
Vathres: Liturgy of Lacuna
(thanatosis produktion)


Three expansive works from composer and keyboardist/pianist Alex Zethson, developing concepts from themes and motifs developed over more than a decade, recorded over two years with exceptional care as he and his collaborators create subtle and beautifully evocative sonic environments that seamlessly incorporate acoustic, electronic, drone and feedback elements.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $13.95 Listen

 
Angles & Elle-Kari with Strings: The Death of Kalypso
(thanatosis produktion)


The 12th album from Martin Küchen's Angles ensemble is expanded and developed with notations and string arrangements from Alexander Zethson, and the voice of Elle-Kari Sander, in an engrossing album of powerfully compelling jazz rhythms & soloing, orchestral swells and emphatic songs pivoting around the mythology of the nymph Calypso, woven into contemporary concepts; sensational!
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $13.95 Listen

 
Angles & Elle-Kari with Strings: The Death of Kalypso [VINYL 2 LPs]
(thanatosis produktion)


The 12th album from Martin Küchen's Angles ensemble is expanded and developed with notations and string arrangements from Alexander Zethson, and the voice of Elle-Kari Sander, in an engrossing album of powerfully compelling jazz rhythms & soloing, orchestral swells and emphatic songs pivoting around the mythology of the nymph Calypso, woven into contemporary concepts; sensational!
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $29.95 Listen

 
Egberth, Dennis: The Dennis Egberth Dynasty
(577 Records)


Blending the cosmic textures of electronic experimentation with the raw energy of free improv, drummer and composer Dennis Egberth leads a handpicked sextet through hypnotic soundscapes of modal grooves, ambient flourishes, and dynamic interplay, channeling the spirit of late-'60s and '70s jazz while forging a forward-thinking approach to contemporary creative music.
   
Buy $16.00 Listen

 
Bromander, Vilhelm Unfolding Orchestra: Jorden Vi Arvde
(thanatosis produktion)


A stunning second album from Swedish bassist and composer Vilhelm Bromander's Unfolding Orchestra, expanding on his acclaimed debut with richly textured, spiritually resonant compositions inspired by political urgency and environmental reflection, featuring a 13-piece ensemble delivering lush orchestrations, patient development, and profound, hopeful expression.
   
Buy $13.95 Listen

 


The Squid's Ear

The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine,
featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.




Alexander Zethson
The Squid's Ear Interview

Lao Dan: To Hit A Pressure Point (Relative Pitch)
Lao Dan: To Hit A Pressure Point (Relative Pitch)

Szilard Mezei Quartet: Old Book For Quartet (FMR)
Szilard Mezei Quartet: Old Book For Quartet (FMR)

MARANATA (Wesseltoft / Stiberg / Escalante): Ugly Euphoria (Relative Pitch)
MARANATA (Wesseltoft / Stiberg / Escalante): Ugly Euphoria (Relative Pitch)


Birgit Ulher
The Squid's Ear Interview

Joe McPhee / Susanna Gartmayer / John Edwards / Maria Portugal: Monster (Klanggalerie)
Joe McPhee / Susanna Gartmayer / John Edwards / Maria Portugal: Monster (Klanggalerie)

Ivo Perelman / Tyshawn Sorey: Parallel Aesthetics (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Ivo Perelman / Tyshawn Sorey: Parallel Aesthetics (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Michel Doneda / Frederic Blondy: Points of Convergences (Relative Pitch)
Michel Doneda / Frederic Blondy: Points of Convergences (Relative Pitch)

Larry Stabbins / Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring (Discus)
Larry Stabbins / Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring (Discus)


Elliott Sharp
The Squid's Ear Interview

Olie Brice Quartet (Brice / Musson / Hawkins / Glaser): All It Was (West Hill Records)
Olie Brice Quartet (Brice / Musson / Hawkins / Glaser): All It Was (West Hill Records)

Joe Fonda: Joe Fonda & Bass of Operation (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Joe Fonda: Joe Fonda & Bass of Operation (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))



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(Creative Sources)


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(Creative Sources)


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