AFT creates a musical landscape in perpetual transformation, where jazz merges with classical
music, experimental rock and free music. The music balances between catchy melodies, playful
rhythms and inexhaustible curiosity. The trio released their debut album, ‘Aldebar Nights of
Mangos’, in March 2025, which was listed among the 100 best releases of 2025 by New York City
Jazz Record - a musical journey between the fragile and subtle to the explosive and
unpredictable. The trios sound expresses both the introverted and the extroverted and
energetic. This duality and unpredictability have also become Filipsen's signature and sound.
"Great musicians tend to follow one idea for long periods, examining its every implication, and
there is a strong sense, reinforced here, that Filipsen has been pursuing a single sound through
space and time.” Brian Morton, Jazzjournal

AFT consists of Anders Filipsen (piano), C...

AFT creates a musical landscape in perpetual transformation, where jazz merges with classical
music, experimental rock and free music. The music balances between catchy melodies, playful
rhythms and inexhaustible curiosity. The trio released their debut album, ‘Aldebar Nights of
Mangos’, in March 2025, which was listed among the 100 best releases of 2025 by New York City
Jazz Record - a musical journey between the fragile and subtle to the explosive and
unpredictable. The trios sound expresses both the introverted and the extroverted and
energetic. This duality and unpredictability have also become Filipsen's signature and sound.
"Great musicians tend to follow one idea for long periods, examining its every implication, and
there is a strong sense, reinforced here, that Filipsen has been pursuing a single sound through
space and time.” Brian Morton, Jazzjournal

AFT consists of Anders Filipsen (piano), Casper Rask (double bass) and Rune Lohse (drums).
After five years of intense collaboration, they have developed an almost telepathic
understanding, where each concert becomes a unique journey in the encounter between the
improvised and the composed. The trio constantly challenges the boundaries of the piano trio
format in the year 2026 and explores how the sound, energy and interplay within the format can
create new paths.

The music draws threads from jazz legends such as Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, avantgarde composers such as Morton Feldman and Conlon Nancarrow as well as serial music, Hermeto Pascoal and Talking Heads. The album has garnered great acclaim and has been described as:

“This is delightful music with great synergy between the three players…And that’s what this music
is about. To touch the listener’s heart and the joy of playing music. And boy (girl), they can play”
Vital Weekly, NL

"The Filipsen Trio enjoys experimenting with Filipsen’s clever, genre-transcending, and uplifting
sonic vision in perpetual transformation and organic, almost telepathic dynamics…In each of
these short pieces, Filipsen’s Trio challenges the conventions of the classic jazz trio and searches
for new sonic options, egalitarian interplay, and energetic drive." Salt Peanuts, No

“An irresistible earworm…With the Anders Filipsen Trio, everything revolves around tension in a
film noir… Absolute recommendation. “ Jazzhalo, Be...

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