EDN-1283
Aki Rissanen
Imaginary Mountains
- 1. Imaginary Mountains 2.35
- 2. No Regretz 5.18
- 3. 1905 2.46
- 4. Neon Prometheus 4.39
- 6. Black Narcissus 5.35
- 7. The Spark Carrier 1.33
- 8. High Expectations 6.17
- 9. 2025 3.54
- 10. Withforest 4.32
- 11. Glitch in the Heavens 3.12
- 12. Iki Keklik 3.08
Release date: 12 September 2025
Release date: 12 September 2025
Available as: Digital Download (Contains WAV, AIFF and MP3).
Credits and About
Aki Rissanen piano & electric grand piano
Antti Lötjönen bass
Aki Rissanen drums
Aki Rissanen - piano & electric grand piano
Antti Lötjönen - bass
Teppo Mäkynen - drums
Music composed by Aki Rissanen except #7, 9, 11 by Rissanen, Lötjönen & Mäkynen
Produced by Aki Rissanen
Executive producer Dave Stapleton
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Petri Matara at Volume Productions
Helsinki, Finland on Jan 27-29 and Feb 26-28 2025
Pianos tuned by Pekka Virtanen
Photos and cover art by Akari Kawabata
Album artwork by Oli Bentley, Split
Imaginary Mountains is the bold new trio album by Finnish pianist and composer Aki Rissanen. A bold, rhythm-focused evolution of one of Europe’s most distinctive voices in improvised music, Imaginary Mountains embodies a rawer, more tactile sound, shaped in part by the Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano, with a gritty and metallic sound, sitting somewhere between acoustic piano and Rhodes.
While the trio’s trademark intuition remains, Rissanen’s compositional voice has evolved – leaner, more visceral, yet no less precise. Inspired by internal landscapes, visual art, and geopolitical unease, the record plays with contrasts. Imaginary Mountains is both a subtle nod to Jarrett’s Personal Mountains and a standalone statement—a mature, rhythm-forward work that invites you into terrain that’s not always comfortable, but always deeply felt.
