September 2025 MESMER - TERRAIN VAGUE II.
A 3 part soundinstallation in the northern part of Denmark
After a year of exploring and recording sounds across Northern Jutland MESMER premiered our soundinstallations at Læsø ArtGallery, Frederikshavn ArtMuseum and Huset in Aalborg.
We’ve listened, experimented, and transformed local soundscapes into music.
In Aalborg the work is accompanied by a light installation by local artist Jesper Thiemer ✨
The music will be released in Martch 2026.
May 2025 - The Savage Rose
Huge honour and joy playing with the legendary band - The Savage Rose - all through summer and luckily also in the year to come.
‘Den 11. Sten’ - New piece written for the opening of the 11th Stone at DODEKALITTEN
The trio ‘Den 11. Sten’ consisting of Maria-Laurette Friis, Kasper Tranberg and Anders Filipesn,created a new site-specific piece for the opening of the 11th stone at Dodekalitten. A very special day and a remarkable piece by sculpturer Thomas Kadziola at a beuatiful setting in Denmark.
March 2025 ANDERS FILIPSEN TRIO - ALDEBAR NIGHTS OF MANGOS
28th of March the debutalbum of Anders Filipsen Trio is releassed. The album is the culmination of several years of work between the three musicians Anders Filipsen, Rune Lohse and Casper Nyvang Rask. The album has been added to New York City Jazz Record’s recommended New Releases and the press has described the album:
“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
“There is so much basic love and warmth in the music.” Jazznyt, DK
"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
2025 - Mesmer - CREATING 3 NEW INSTALLATIONS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF JUTLAND
During late 2024 and 1st half year of 2025 we are creating 3 sound-installations with Mesmer. They are to be presented in July-September 2025 at Huset in Aalborg, Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum and Læsø Kunsthal.
All installations are centered around the meeting between culture and nature, developing and continuing are work with ‘Terrain vague’ released in November 2023.
SEPTEMBER 2024 - ADAPTATIONS IS RELEASED
Finally….After 5 years we can now proudly announce that the album Adaptations by The Firebirds is being released on Dacapo.
A momumental work where we have worked with 6 classical composers and Nordic String Quartet is out. Really looking forward to sharing it with the world
AUGUST 2024 NEW ALBUM RECORDED
In August we recorded the debut-album på AFT (Anders FIlipsen Trio) in John Fomsgaard’s beautiful studio at Møn. To be released in February 2025 on ILK-Music
MARCH 2024
MESMER will create sound for new exhibition by renowned architects 3*N at Danish Architectural Centre. Live concert at the opening on March 21st.
An exhibition that invites you into a total installation about the influence of architecture on our senses
Selected tracks by Anders Filipsen
“It has become increasingly important for me to create space for the sound.”
NOVEMBER 2023
Debutalbum out with MESMER. Out on Arbitrary. The debutalbum is a series of (deconstructed) live-recordings taken from three live concerts. The sounds on this record entails two years of sound research and creative outbursts with inspiration from field trips mainly from the areas in the outskirts of Copenhagen. Intrigued and fascinated by the auditive landscapes of places where nature and culture meet and challenge each other.
Listening to the field-recordings led Mesmer to interpret the moods, musical qualities and inherited energy of the sounds in these areas. Thus creating melodies, harmonies and rhythmical structures that together with the field recordings paved the way for this album.
MESMER consists of the three musicians and composers Emil Jensen, Victor Dybbroe and Anders Filipsen, who have been creating music together the last 15 years in various groups. MESMER is fascinated by how sound (and lack of) influences us as people and how the different natural and cultural environments creates different musical scenarios.
Hope you enjoy this album and encourage you to listen and dive into the music wherever you are, welcoming the sounds that are already present in your environment.
February 2023 Premiering ‘Order and Chaos’
Together with visual artist Ditte Bolt we premiered the piece yesterday in the Danish concert-church.
A 50 min. piece for 5 synthesizers and visuals working with the theme of how we deal with and constantly change in our view on order and chaos.
January 2023 NEW PROJECTS and musical friends
Within the last year I’ve met and begun working with fantastic musicians and composers a.o. the fantastic cellist, composer and singer Jakob Kullberg, singer and composer Camilla Munck and trumpet extra-ordinaire Kasper Tranbereg. Wonderful and unique people creaating music that I feel privileged to be a part of.
JUNE 2022 ‘Terrain Vague’ - Mesmer
(formerly known as ‘lydkollektivet newclear’)
During summer 2021 and spring/summere 2022 we created three installation concerts with Mesmer working with new material focusing on the meeting betweeen nature and culture. The concerts were premiered in Oremandsgaard (summer 2021), Xenon as a part of a residency (spring 2022) and the piece ‘Development and dismantlinig’ was premiered in summer 2022 as part of SV-Festival
AUGUST 2021 FINISHING NEW PIECE FOR ‘LYS OVER LOLLAND’.
In cooperation with light-artist Adalsteinn Stefansson I have created a audio-visual piece for the 20th edition of the light festival ‘Lys over Lolland’. The piece was shown and heard on Friday the 27th of August in Nakskov Havn. A grand piece that was audible all over the harbour in connection with lights and pictures created by Adalsteinn Stefansson. A tremendous pleasure and honour!
The piece became even greater than anticipated when a huge Russian ship backed out of the harbour during the intro
January 2021 ‘WAITING MUSIC’ is out on Ilk
Cover by Ditte Bolt (www.dittebolt.dk)
October, 2020 Live-CONCERT at National DaniSH Tv (The Firebirds & Carl Nielsen Quintet)
May 2020 The Black Nothing & Anders Filipsen ‘Stilleben’ Out
“Approached without prejudice it’s a marvellous musical experience…”(Jazzjournal by Brian Morton)
“The genre-transcending music is yet again personal and unique. Easy to disappear in. Easy to be challenged by. Easy to be seduced by. "(Ivan Rod).
“It’s exciting music that is both convoluted and simple and intrigues throughout the album.” (Salt Peanuts).
“If Lynch needed new music for Twin Peaks, The Black Nothing could easily be it…” (Passive/Aggressive).
““…a stylisticallyet eclectic remix, that Charles Ives, Claude Debussy, Gil Evans, Gimmy Giuffre, Albert Ayler, Tore Takemitsu and Frank Zappa has worked on…Filipsens music is surprising, but also vital, resilient, melankolly and varied” (Jazz).
“Anders Filipsen has with his tentet ‘The Black Nothing’ consolidated his good reputation as a highly creative and purposeful composer.” (Jazzspecial, Bjarne Søltoft).
April 2020 SOLO-CONCERT
At the National Art Gallery (SMK) of Denmark.
Improvisations - interpreting Danish artist Anna Ancher.
March 2020 THE LONELY WEB
Just finished 2 pieces with LYDKOLLEKTIVET NEWCLEAR for the installation-piece The Lonely Web by Danish artists Anders Morre Pedersen and Nanna Schannong. Premier in 2021.
