Stefan Aeby Trio

Stefan Aeby Trio – To the Light (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:13 minutes | 937 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intakt Records

Acclaimed Swiss pianist and composer Stefan Aeby unveils this trio recording with bass player André Pousaz and drummer Michi Stulz, showcasing each musician’s clear, unique identity. The three members follow a minimal, free vision, leaving space and time to react to each other and to revel in the sounds. To build their multi-layered sonic architecture, the bandmates avoid the weight of the monumental, instead using their atmospheric musicianship to create a soundtrack for the poetry of the unobtrusive. The magic of this expansive music lies in a courageous aesthetic of modesty, which favours fine-fingered sensitivity over the muscular gestures of high-performance sport and thus a statement against the thundering excesses of spectacle, yet this graceful art is indeed spectacular in its filigree way. Unpretentiously, the trio has cultivated a kind of gallant tiptoe, the principle is to play softly and generate tension walking on velvet paws, at times through a calmness bordering on silence.

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Stefan Aeby Trio – The London Concert (Live) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:13 minutes | 596 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intakt Records

The concert of the Stefan Aeby Trio at the Intakt Festival at Vortex Jazz Club in London 2017 was a highlight of live music in the capital that year. It made an emphatic statement on how improvisation transcends borders and underlined the strength of a new generation of players.

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Stefan Aeby Trio – Fairy Circus (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:29 minutes | 500 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © iMD-Music Today

The fifth album of this longtime working band, recorded at a piano-tuner’s workshop in Liestal, Switzerland, in August 2021. Playing the first concerts after a loooong time, the trio worked on the new repertoire during a week long Résidence at ‘Live in Vevey’ in spring 2021. A couple of concerts and months later, they invited Sound Wizzard Tobias Stritt to record them in a live setting at René Waldhauser’s Klavierwerkstatt. The album was mixed and mastered at bassist André Pousaz’ Pousaz Sound Lab beginning of 2022.
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