The Floris Kappeyne Trio played its first concert in 2012 in The Hague, when Floris Kappeyne, Tijs Klaassen and Wouter Kühne were still teenagers. Fifteen years later, they are still playing together in the same line-up. In that time they released three albums, Interchange (2017), Synesthesia (2019) and Closer (2023), and performed everywhere from Belgium and France to Tanzania and Scandinavia. Now they present their first live album: Live at the Hot House.

Over the past fifteen years, all three band members have developed into bandleaders, each with a style of their own. Part of that came from playing and recording together in many other line-ups besides the trio. The trio formed the rhythm section of the Tijs Klaassen Quintet, Mo van der Does’ Motet and, most recently, the Mete Erker Trio + 1. Tijs Klaassen and Wouter Kühne are also one of the most in-demand rhythm sections of the moment.

Fifteen years of shared joys and sorrows, long hours on the road, and musical moments on stage have evolved the band’s unique sound. “What we’re really aiming at is a perfect anarchy, where nobody is in charge, but anyone can take the lead at any given moment.” says Floris Kappeyne. “That state of being requires complete surrender and unconditional trust in each other.”

‘One of the tightest live units in the Netherlands’ (Harmen Fraanje)

Floris Kappeyne piano, Tijs Klaassen double bass, Wouter Kühne drums