News

Coming up for 2024

The jazz opera The death of Kalypso with Elle-Kari and Angles with strings is out on the 26th of April. Order and check for more info here. Released on the Thanatosis label.

Extended interview in swedish in the 2024 first edition of the music magazine LIRA.

LIRA-omslag - våren - 2024
Cover picture

Coming up for 2023

The Jazz Opera “The Death of Kalypso” – w Angles feat Elle-Kari plus strings –  is finally mixed and ready. Double-LP release in April 2024, but already beginning in the late fall of 2023 we will launch a sequence of singles in a digital format. Music and libretto by Martin Küchen. Arrangements etc by Alexander Zethson and Elle-Kari Sander. World premiere in Antwerp, Belgium the 25th of August during Summer Bummer Festival.

New CD with Sophie Agnel –  Detour Tunnels of Light –  due to be released in May on the Thanatosis label.  Preview a video track by Leo Küchen and order here .

New duo CD “Animal Quotes” with bBb (Ola Rubin/Martin Küchen) out on Relative Pitch Records in June.

The solo album Utopia won the “Årets dramatik” award in the music magazine LIRA for 2022.

Coming up for 2022 

Residency w Sophie Agnel in February. Two days of recordings @ Borlunda kyrka,Eslöv. Concert @ Klub Primi, Copenhagen. Thanks to Konstnärsnämnden.

Portugal residency in Stockholm w Angles 12: rehearsals, lecture/seminar (streamed) and a concert(streamed). Big thanks to Musikverket and Clean Feed Productions.

Bicycle-tour with Küchen & Müntzing Scheibenhonig in the Skåne region end of July/besinning of August. Thanks to Region Skåne.

PRAED-Orchestra one week residency @SummerBummer Festival, Antwerpen, Belgium in August.

Reahearsal week and studio recordings w the newly composed jazz opera piece Une Certaine Paix w string quartert, Angles and Ellikari Sander on vocals. October.

New albums/recordings being prepared:

Utopia – new solo CD out in May on Thanatosis Productions.

A Muted Reality – new CD w Angles out in June on Clean Feed Records.

Steps That Resonates – Debut CD w new trio with Zlatko Kaucic and Agusti Fernandez out on Nottwo Records in the spring.

Looper – a digital release being prepared for ScatterArchive w a live recording from Ljubljana made @ Sound Disobedience Festival 2015.

New debut CD/Lp w the new duo w Sophie Agnel.

Tape 5: new digital release w bBb. Out on ScatterArchive the 1st of May.

Live in Moscow: Threnody. Live from DOM in 2017. Digital release. Konvoj Records.

Trespass trio w Susana Santos Silva. Live from Blow Out, Oslo in 2018. CD. Clean Feed Records.

Coming up for 2021

Swedish residency w Sophie Agnel in September/October (postponed to February 2022.)

Out 1st of September 2021 on Scatter Archive Bandcamp: bBb. “Tape 1: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers and reasoning as fear”

New solo on Thanatosis. Recorded in February 2021. CD planned for release in May 2022.

New Lp w Angles 9 due to be released in the spring of 2022 on Clean Feed Records.

Trespass Trio w Susana Santos Silva. A live CD from Blow Out- Festival 2018 is prepared by Clean Feed Records for release during 2022.

Det Försvunnas Namn got the 2020 Year´s solo award by the swedish Music Magazine LIRA.

New duo LP w Michaela Antalova “Thunder Before Lightning” out in September on Clean Feed Records. New CD w “Opus Tve (Risberg/Küchen) out on Konvoj Records in September. New CD w “The Stork & the Chimp” (Lindsjö/Küchen) out on Konvoj Records in September.

Residency w Angles 9 – Angles DANCE! – postponed until April 2022 in Portugal.

Coming up 2020

On October 23 2020 the full length solo LP/DL “Det Försvunnas Namn” will be released. Please, go to Thanatosis Records for details!

Here is the title track “Det Försvunnas Namn” music video.

A pre launch of the a new solo LP/DL release on Thanatosis Records on the September 17 2020 with the bonus track (only DL) “Die Katze von Bach”.

Angles 9: A week´s residency in Portugal w extended Angles 9 “ANGLES Dance!” (w guests Michaela Antalova, Susana Santos Silva and Josefin Runsteen) in April. Rehearsals, workshops, concerts. Thanks Musikverket.
Concert @ Jazzart, Katowice, Poland in April.
Concert @ Jazz Cerkno, Slovenia in May.
Concert @ Inkonst, Jazz i Malmö, Sweden in May. …and more….

CANCELLED

Tour in Germany/Denmark/Sweden w Torsten Müller in May.

CANCELLED

Invitation to Vancouver International Jazz Festival in June/July. Concerts w Torsten Müller and others. Thanks Konstnärsnämnden.

CANCELLED

New releases:
Angles 9 + Angles 10 “Today is better than tomorrow” – Live LP on Underflow Records. January 2020. Order here.

KutinKüchen CD-duo “Stutter and strike”. Out on Zavod Sploh in February.

The Croaks (Roger Turner/Martin Klapper/Martin Küchen) – debut CD on Fundaja Sluchaj in March/April.

Martin Küchen & Landaeus trio. CD out on Clean Feed Records in June.

Out now! Mind the Gap of Silence

In preparation: new solo LP/DL (recorded @ Klosterkyrkan, Lund in August & November 2019). LP/DL release date October 23 2020!

debut CD w Antalova/Küchen duo

debut CD w Risberg/Küchen duo

Coming up 2019

Baza – new LP on No Business with Rafal Mazur. Out in January 2019.
Listen here

X-rayed – Double – CD w Nobject on Fundacja Sluchaj. Out in April 2019.
Listen here

A paradigm of suspicion – new CD w THRENODY (Berthling/Küchen/Noble). Trost records. Fall 2019.
Listen here

Beyond us – new CD w Angles 9. May 2019 on Clean Feed records.
Listen here

(New live-LP w Angles 10 and Angles 9. Out on Underflow Records in January 2020)

Vancouver residency whole of January 2019. Thanks to Coastal Jazz and The swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Tour in October w Angles 9.

To Slovenia in September 2019 w Samo Kutin and Tomaz Grom.

New duo release w Mattias Risberg in preparation.
New duo release w Michaela Antalova in preparation.
New 4-tett release w Martin Küchen & Landaeus trio in preparation.

Coming up 2018

launching of the new group “ATCHO” w Silva/Bertel/Cantillo/Schyman/Küchen (led by Dan Schyman) with two concerts in Malmö, Sweden in February.
duo concert w Michaela Antalová in Malmö in March.
solo performance on the 23th of March @ Soundisobedience 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Portalegre jazz festival w Angles 3 in Portugal the 26th of April.
Trespass trio w Mathias Landaeus in Lund (18/4) and Växjö (19/4) in April.
The new trio “ThE cROaKs” (Turner/Klapper/Küchen) w concerts in Stockholm(17/4) and Oslo (24/4).
tour w Trillia/Mazur in May in Poland etc
Angles 9 @ Nattjazz, Bergen, Norway the 26th of May.
Angles 8 Canada tour in June/July.
Trespass trio to Romania in September.
w PRAED Big Band to Sharjah, UAE, in October/November.

launching of new CD (“Vinyl”) on Moserobie Records w Landaeus trio (release concerts @ Glenn Miller cafe, Stockholm in February).
New trippel CD w The Heat Death out in January 2018. “The Glenn Miller session”.
New CD “Parede” on Clean Feed w Angles 3 out in April.
New LP w Rafael Mazur on No Business.
In preparation: new CD/LP w Phicus and new trio recording w Threnody at the gates trio(Noble/Berthling/Küchen)
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The CD “Interstellar transmission”curated by Ed Pettersen out on Split Rock Records in April – w Henry Kaiser, Roger Turner a. o.
Trio CD w Ed Pettersen and Roger Turner. “the end of the universe” out late 2018.

Coming up 2017

New LP/CD w Angles 9. “Disappeared behind the sun”. Releasedate 17th of January 2017 on Clean Feed records. Pre listen to the tune “Pacemaker”here at OJ , where u also find the teaser from the whole album.

Already in December 2016 Angles 9 seven inch single was released on Omlott records.

New LP/CD “Threnody, at the gates” w Steve Noble/Johan Berthling/Martin Küchen on Trost Records. Release in February/March 2017.

New CD w Trespass trio “The spirit of Pitesti” in May 2017. On Clean Feed Records.

CD w all the material from the two LPs “Four lamentations and a wicked dream of innocence” and “The pity of it all” w Landaeus trio. Out on Moserobie spring 2017.

New CD w Fracture Mechanics (Beins/Capece/Vogel/Küchen) out on Mikroton Recordings in April 2017.

New solo LP/CD “Lieber Heiland, laß uns sterben” recorded in the crypt of Lunds Cathedral, Sweden on SOFA records. Preliminar release August/ September 2017.

Releases in preparation: trio w Anders Lindsjö and Raymond Strid, duo w Anders Lindsjö.

CD -box w The Heat death.

Angles 3 (Nordeson/Håker-Flaten/Küchen) with live recordings from Parede, Portugal.

Coming up 2016

releases: The pity of it all – Martin Küchen & Landaeus trio (Moserobie)
The bakery – duo w Keith Rowe (Mikroton)
The Heat Death – 3 box CD (Clean Feed Records)
Angles 9 – new release, scheduled for the fall of 2016
Fracture Mechanics. CD.

in trio w Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Kjell Nordeson. Concerts, recordings.

Archived news section:

Coming up 2015

Upcoming releases 2015 :

All Included. CD/LP “Satan in plain clothes”. Release March 2015. Clean feed records.

Bauchredner – duo w Dimitra Lazaridou – Chatzigoga. CD. Release spring 2015. Cathnor recordings.

Küchen & Müntzing Scheibenhonig. Duo. Release 2015. CD.Improv. hu label.

Martin Küchen & Landaeus trio. New LP. Out in September 2015(delayed until 2016) Moserobie.

All Included trio. No Business. LP. Autumn 2015.

Duo w Keith Rowe. Mikroton. CD. Release end of 2015.

Fracture Mechanics. CD. Limmonable. 2015.

CD “Night in Europe” w new trio w Steve Noble and Johan Berthling. No Business Records. Out September 2015.

The KTHKTT – ensemble w Anna Lindal, Erik Carlsson, Keith Rowe, Johan Jutterström, Martin Küchen and Mats Gustafsson
– release of the dance performance w Ryuzu Fukuhara with music composed by Martin Küchen, recorded live at the crypt, Lunds Cathedral, Sweden September 2013. Will be released under its name “Killing the houses, killing the trees”. Mikroton recordings 2017.

solo residency project w Audrey Lauro and Dirar Kalash in Antwerp in April 2015, hosted by Oorstof/Sound in Motion.

Concerts w Angles 9 in Belgium/Holland in May and at Taktlos-festival, Switzerland, also May. Angles 9 also to Copenhagen Jazzfestival (July).

All Included to Artacts-festival, St Johann in Tirol, Austria in March.

Coming up 2014

Recent : two reviews on my solo set in Antwerpen, Belgium, played the 26th of October 2014 (thanks Koen & Christel) – here
and here

Out now: ” INJURIES “ . Angles 9. Double LP and CD. Clean Feed.
5 star review in norwegian Aftenposten

“Four lamentations and one wicked dream of innocence” LP on Moserobie w Landaeus trio

“…and everything inside came down as dust” . New solo release on Confront recordings.
New review here by Brian Olewnick.

videos from my residency in Vienna, Vor Anker (tack till Konstnärsnämnden), taken in October 2013 and January 2014.
Videos from Zwentendorf Atomic plant(build, but never used), Wiener Wasserturm Favoriten, and, together w Mats Gustafsson, a walk in the subterrean Wien. Thanks to Johannes Heuer for doin the films!

Zwentendorf Atomic plant, “React Reactor”

Wiener Wasser

A walk along below (w Mats Gustafsson)

Releases in preparation:

Duo w Dimitra Chatzigoga -Lazaridou.

vinyl 7 inch. Duo w Seijiro Murayama. Out on Four Dimensions, May 2014.

Coming up 2012/2013

on new lists/poll for 2012:
El Intruso poll 2012
Stef´s Freejazzblog
on Sound of Music best of 2012

New interview on belgian Kwadratuur

New video from Angles 10 in Saalfelden made by George Staicu

New LP w ANGLES 9 out on Clean Feed in August 2013. “In our Midst”

New LP w Looper, “Matter” , finally ready and released on the Monotype-label

see new proper filmed “In our midst” video here – from Kunstencentrum Belgie October 2012, feature track on the “In our Midst”- LP…..

To listen; “Sarajevo” from the solo LP “Hellstorm”!!

New LP w Angles 9 on Clean Feed, live from Hasselt, due to b released in August 2013

check also new website for ANGLes 9

New dance and music project w Keith Rowe, Ryuzo Fukuhara, Mats Gustafsson, Anna Lindal, Erik Carlsson and Johan Jutterström in September 2013; premier in Stockholm and Lund

New release w Trespass trio w Joe Mcphee on Clean Feed in May 2013 “Human Encore”

In preparation: double CD w Seijiro Murayama

Coming up 2012 ; new CD with Trespass Trio on Clean Feed – scheduled for release in March 2012.
New solo vinyl on Mathka – scheduled for release in April 2012 @ the New Perspective festival 2012 in Västerås, Sweden.
Singel vinyl release with Murayama/Küchen duo. Scheduled for April 2012.
Angles Octet, Live in Ljubljana. Out on Clean Feed in July 2012.
New CD with Chip Shop Music with Toshi Nakamura.

Here a live extract from a solo concert in Sarajevo in January 2012 – u smell the smoke and the chatting? It was cold, visible air came out of the saxophone! A wonderful evening!
In Sarajevo

A new review in french here:
Le Son Du Grisli

Review on Jazzalchemist from Küchen & Müntzing Scheibenhonig gig in Krakow, Poland in April 2011 l

From the March tour2011 with Taco Bells; Domwloadable stuff on Unobtainables blog in Finland!!
Unobtainables. blogspot

Petra Cvelbar beautiful pictures from Gromka, Ljubljana in March 2011 on FB

Ziga Koritnik lovely pictures from the GROMKA concert 17th of March in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ziga Koritnik pictures on FB

UTube clip from Trespass trio 18th of March 2011 at Ambasada SKM,Beltinci, Slovenia;

Trespass trio live

Two u-tube clips from the finnish tour w Taco Bells
see here:
Taco Bells w mr Küchen; first clip
Taco bells w mr Küchen; second clip

The Nutida Sound award for “The lie & the orphanage”

Nutida Sound award

Being somehow mysteriously polled at El Intruso best of 2010 Poll – too much hashish smoked there obviously

look here: El Intrusu Best of 2010 Poll

New photos by Petra Cvelbar; taken in Slovenia in May and October 2010

New releases:

“Dying Sun” w Looper(Küchen/Zach/ Veliotis)at Cathnor/Another Timbre
Cathnor
Another Timbre

“You can shop around but you won´t find any cheaper” w Chip Shop Music (Lacey/Vogel/Carlsson/Küchen) on Homefront recordings

cassette release with Per Thörn w remix by Leif Elggren