Always Ever, out April 24, 2026, features Spence exploring a diverse spectrum of experimental approaches and preparations on the piano
“Spence is both imaginative and expansive, sensitive to mood and contrast, texture and melody, euphony and cacophony.” – Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise
“Spence possesses a particular kind of vision that speaks to an original distance, whether from our usual sense of a scene as place or as constituent style, a special capacity to see through time and space to a different territory.” – Stuart Broomer, The Free Jazz Collective
The title of Always Ever, the absorbing new album from Australian pianist and composer Alister Spence, suggests a wellspring of sound and inspiration that gazes beyond the present moment into the infinite. An ambitious, singular and deeply personal collection of inventions and experiments, the album ventures further down the path on which the pianist embarked with his acclaimed 2020 album Whirlpool, which All About Jazz hailed as “a good place to hear [Spence’s] uncommon imagination at work.”