Bassist Johan Berthling has been very active during the last 25 years on the international scenes for jazz, rock, and improvised music, and have also frequently been working with music for film and theatre. Together with Mats Gustafsson and Andreas Werliin, he’s running the free jazz/rock/noise-bethemoth Fire! Orchestra, who recently released the massive triple-LP box ECHOES, on Rune Grammofon. Among other current projects are trios with Paul NIlssen-Love and Akira Sakata, Steve Noble and Martin Küchen, and Oren Ambarchi and Andreas Werliin, respectively. His stunning album BJÖRNHORN (2022) – the first solo album of his – sold out quickly but have been repressed several times. On the album, Ken Waxman of Jazzword wrote: ”His clenched hand-on-bass-neck techniques concentrate most billowing buzzes into a solid mass, yet on 'Björnhorn V' he spackles high-pitched colors to lighten the narrative. While the presto and staccato friction projected by his bow work sometimes suggests the strings are a millisecond away from literally bursting into flames, his one turn to pizzicato thumps out wide spatial suggestions. Furthermore when he assays Charlie Haden’s balladic 'For Turiya', his buoyant vibrations show he’s also capable of melodic story telling.”