‘A tour de force’ Bill Shoemaker, Point of Departure

 ‘Penetrating abstractions’ Dan McClenaghan, AllAboutJazz

 ‘Astonishingly beautiful music’ Ian Muldoon, Loudmouth

Alister Spence - piano, prepared piano, percussion
Tony Buck - drums

Spence and Buck - two endlessly curious, deeply committed distinctive, improvisers, share a fascination with submerged rhythm, oblique extended forms, entwined interplay, and sound for its own sake. As contemporaries their musical histories have run in parallel—and occasionally intersecting—for the last thirty years.

The duo’s debut release, Mythographer (ASM013, 2023) was listed in the ‘Best of 2023’ by the New York City Jazz Record (January 2024 edition).

 Both musicians bring a wealth of musical experience, offering each other the opportunity to dig deep into their vocabularies in order to engage in genuine, interactive dialogue. Whether playing wide-ranging abstract improvisations, swinging driving pieces, or more reflective soundscapes the pair manage to find focus and form wherever the music takes them.