ALISTER SPENCE
Pianist, Improviser, Composer
APRIL 2026
I'm really pleased to announce the release of Always Ever a new solo piano album!
The album is out now and available in CD and digital format (including hi-rez audio) on Bandcamp; and also through Birdland Records.
Solo piano is a special place for me, a place to explore freely and discover. Something fundamental and originary.
‘Improvisation, at its most compelling, is less about freedom than about risk, the willingness to step into the unknown without a map. Few artists embrace that uncertainty as fully as Alister Spence.'
'Because if art has any enduring function, it is not simply to move us. It is to unsettle us, just enough to make us listen again’ Thierry De Clemensat, Paris Move.
On Monday 4th May I'll be celebrating the launch, playing a solo piano set at Church Street Studios, Camperdown, for Monday Night Confessions.
Always Ever is my third solo release following on from Whirlpool (solo piano, ASM009, 2020), and Within Without (solo fender rhodes electric piano, RM4244, 2025)
JANUARY 2026
Asteroid Ekosystem are very pleased to announce our brand new studio album Sounds Have Dreams out Feb 13th via band camp and all good indie stores.
To coincide with this release, Ed, Lloyd, Toby and myself will play two intimate Sydney shows, two sets each night!
March 20 and 21st at 21 Shepherd St, Marrickville.
"It's not jazz, it's not rock…Whatever you want to call it, this is one mighty sonic trip that paints colourful pictures in the mind.”
Noel Mengel
Tickets are also available via feelpresents.com
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2025
I'm very pleased to announce a new solo album Within Without, on the Room40 Label! This is an album of explorations on the fender rhodes electric piano, an instrument I've played since the 1970s, and more recently in solo performance, and with Sensaround and Kira Kira, as I've been investigating its sound potential more broadly.
In October I have the great pleasure to be reconnecting with Australian/Berlin drummer Tony Buck (the Necks) for a short Europe tour. It's such a joy playing with Tony. Something very special I think!
Tour dates are October 4 to 9 in Newcastle, Glasgow, Berlin, and Vienna.
See the videos page for excerpts of last year’s Spence/Buck performance at Vilnius Jazz Festival 2024.
In other news Asteroid Ekosystem’s third album is now mixed. It’s a beauty I think! It is intended for release during the Australian summer season.
And there's been a terrific review published in Jazz Journal of Alister Spence Trio's recent album Gather:
'ecstatic, resonant and gorgeous ...This is a great pianist at the peak of his powers – an amazing album that richly repays repeated listening.' Andy Hamilton, Jazz Journal
I acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners and pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging, on whose lands I live, work and play. Sovereignty was never ceded. It always was, always is, always will be Aboriginal land.