Aki Rissanen’s trio returns to the stage with their new album Imaginary Mountains.
Pianisti Aki Rissanen julkaisi uuden albuminsa Imaginary Mountains 12.9.2025 brittiläisen Edition Recordsin kautta. Albumi on Rissasen seitsemäs ja hänen trionsa – rumpali Teppo Mäkysen ja basisti Antti Lötjösen – viides julkaisu arvostetulla levymerkillä.
“At the heart of this album is trust. In our trio – Teppo and Antti. We’ve been playing together for a long time, and without them this music wouldn’t be what it is,” Rissanen says.
The album title Imaginary Mountains refers to the invisible and often unconscious internal barriers that affect how we react to world events – and sometimes numb us to them altogether. It is about the mental terrain that can prevent us from responding or identifying with what is happening around us.
Aki Rissanen is one of the most internationally followed Finnish jazz musicians. His breakthrough came in spring 2016 with the release of Amorandom on Edition Records. The album won the Emma Award in the Jazz Album of the Year category and was widely praised both in Finland and abroad. The trio albums Another North (2017), Art In Motion (2019) and Trio Live (2022), as well as the solo album Divided Horizon (2021) and the Hyperreal album (2023) have established him at the forefront of European jazz.