Blending solo and ensemble free improv, percussionist Vasco Trilla joins Vilhelm Bromander, Alex Zethson, and Martin Kuchen in a Stockholm session where drones, elastic bass textures, and intricate percussive detail evolve through responsive interplay, culminating in a resonant solo performance that reflects a dynamic exploration of texture, tension, and transformation.
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Vasco Trilla-percussions, objects
Vilhelm Bromander-double bass
Alexander Zethson-cembalo
Martin Kuchen-saxophone
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UPC: 5609063408805
Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs880
Squidco Product Code: 36984
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Track 1-3 recorded at Studio Spegeln, in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 15th, 2024, by Gustav Lindelow.
Track 4 recorded at M�tesplats Mariatorget, in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 14th, 2024, by Johan Hallgren.
"New album from Barcelona-based percussionist Vasco Trilla, featuring solo work alongside collaborations with three Swedish improvisers: Martin Kuchen, Vilhelm Bromander, and Alex Zethson.
With Up North, Vasco Trilla presents a recording shaped by encounter, environment, and attentive risk-taking. Moving between concentrated solo exploration and deeply responsive interplay with Martin Kuchen, Vilhelm Bromander, and Alex Zethson, the album unfolds as a study in texture, tension, and transformation - where sound is stretched, fractured, and reassembled in real time, revealing a music that is both searching and resolute. In spring 2024, Trilla was invited by musician and Thanatosis label founder Alex Zethson to perform a solo concert at St Paulskyrkan in Stockholm. The former church - now home to an ambitious cultural program alongside significant community work under the name of Motesplats Mariatroget- offers rich acoustics perfectly suited to Trilla's vast sound palette and multilayered approach. The concert was recorded and appears as the album's final track.
Preceding this live solo performance are three extended studio improvisations recorded by Gustaf Lindelow in a nearby studio. The pieces are based on open musical directions provided by Zethson. The first is a captivating drone duo with bassist Vilhelm Bromander (Aurora, Unfolding Orchestra), grounded in low-frequency resonance before gradually dissolving into woody, more transparent textures. The second track is a haunting trio in which Trilla's intricate percussive textures and multiple metronomes meet the uncannily lyrical interplay of long-time collaborators Martin Kuchen (sopranino saxophone) and Alex Zethson (harpsichord). The third piece, spanning almost 19 minutes, unfolds as a constantly shifting yet continuous landscape of wave-like motion. Bass and percussion create a tense, elastic field - Bromander's high-pitched, tingling sounds suggesting material stretched almost to breaking point. The music gradually transforms into an almost industrial sound mass, eventually narrowing into a duo between Kuchen and Trilla: an intuitive exchange that begins with expressive sopranino outbursts and concludes in passages where the two instruments seem to fuse into a complex, distorted hybrid"-Creative Sources
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Vasco Trilla "Born in Barcelona, Vasco Trilla started playing drums at the age of nineteen. His first influences were progressive rock and metal, but gradually he developed an interest in a variety of different genres such as jazz, Indian music, African music, klezmer, free improvisation, etc. Since then he has collaborated, toured and recorded with many different bands and projects such as Boi Akih (an ethno-jazz band from the Netherlands), Planeta Imaginario (progressive jazz-rock) October Equus (avant-rock), The Oddvisers (pop-avant), Fine! (indie pop-rock), Mundo Flotante (ethno-jazz-rock), Kaulakau/Cobla Sant Jordi (an ethno-jazz Catalan orchestra), Filthy Habits Ensemble (a jazz octet playing Zappa's and Stravinsky's repertoire), Cows On Trees (a jazz-improv quartet with Susana Santos Silva and Kaja Draksler), Balimonster (an impro-ethno duo with Angel Ontalva), Yedo Gibson-Vasco Trilla duo (an improv sax & drums duo), Outerzone (jazz-core), Reptilian Mambo (mambo free rock), Liba's Traum, etc. In the last years he has been playing and experimenting on the free-improv scene, applying extended techniques to the kit and treating it as a textural-melodic instrument. Blowing, bowing, scratching, playing with hands and all kinds of objects, all is valid to expand the vocabulary of this innovative percussionist. He played with improvisers, such as: Lotte Anker, Marshall Allen, Yedo Gibson, Susana Santos Silva, Kaja Draksler, Jasper Stadhouders, Mikloaj Trzaska, Martin Kuchen, Richard Barrett, Jorma Tapio, Christher Bothen, Marc Stucki, Luc Ex. etc... He has released around 30 CDs in labels such as Cuneiform Records (USA), Altrock Records (Italy), Leo Records (UK) Discordian Records (Barcelona, Spain), Audition Records (Mexico), El Negocito Records (Belgium), Jacc Records (Portugal), Fmr Records (UK)." ^ Hide Bio for Vasco Trilla • Show Bio for Vilhelm Bromander "Vilhelm BroMander (1988) is a Swedish bass player, improviser and composer based in Stockholm. He embraces his bass from many different angles, with a great curiosity in sound, texture, intonation and timbre. Often he directs his focus to acoustic details such as beating, common partials and difference tones - to hear what happens with our perception when we allow ourselves to be immersed in sound for a longer stretch of time. He draws inspiration from a wide variety of genres such as improvised music, free jazz and electronic music as well as his studies of just intonation and dhrupad. As an improviser he has played with musicians like Axel DöRner, Tisha Mukarji, Michael Thieke, Sten Sandell, Christer BothéN, Katt Hernandez, Lisa UlléN, Henrik Olsson to name a few. Also being a popular session musician he has played with among others Daniel Johnston, Saigon, Musette, Joe Davolaz, Josefin öHrn + The Liberation, The Tiny & Music Is The Weapon." ^ Hide Bio for Vilhelm Bromander • Show Bio for Alexander Zethson "Alexander Zethson has completed the bachelor performance programme in jazz at KMH and is currently studying at the second year of the master's programme with Lisa Ullén as his primary instrument teacher. Alexander has participated in extensive concert and tour activities and has participated in fifteen record productions. The ensembles include: • Niklas Barnö's free jazz group Je Suis!• A number of tours in Europe with Martin Küchen's group Angles 9 Alexander is also active as arranger and pianist in collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, a cooperation which began in 2011. Zethson, Sofia Jernberg and Lene Grenager has arranged music from Hallingdal and Røros performed by the TJO with Zethson, Jernberg and violinist/Hardanger fiddler Olav Luksengård Mjelva." ^ Hide Bio for Alexander Zethson • Show Bio for Martin Kuchen "Born 1966; saxophones. Martin Küchen has been active on the Swedish free improvised/free jazz scene since the mid-1990s. He has composed for larger groups, participated in dance projects, performed with different poets and created the music for experimental films. He now collaborates with improvisors all over Europe and USA/Canada. His current collaborations include: Angles - a new trio with Ingebrigt Håker- Flaten, doublebass, Kjell Nordeson, drums and Martin Küchen, saxophones. Exploding Customer - a free jazz quartet with Tomas Hallonsten trumpet, Benjamin Quigley double bass and Kjell Nordeson drums, which plays mainly original compositions. Sound of Mucus - a trio with the stringchordist Herman Müntzing and Andreas Axelsson, percussion. Unsolicited Music Ensemble - a trio with Tony Wren, double bass and Raymond Strid, percussion. a duo with guitarist David Stackenås. UNSK: Birgit Ulher, Martin Küchen, lise-Lott Norelius and Raymond Strid. Looper - a trio with Greek cello player Nikos Veliotis and Norwegian percussionist Ingar Zach." ^ Hide Bio for Martin Kuchen
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Track Listing:
1. Phantom Surge 10:23
2. A Topographical Vessel 10:08
3. A Dissolving Landscape 18:56
4. Motesplats Mariatorget (March 14, 2024) 18:53
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