His excellent new album "to the light" with bass player André Pousaz and drummer Michi Stulz has a clear, unique identity. The trio follows a free vision of minimal sound art, leaving space and time to react to each other, and to revel in the sounds.

Florian Keller writes in the liner notes: "To build their multi-layered sound architecture, these three music fanatics avoid the weight of the monumental, instead using their atmospheric musicianship to create a soundtrack for the poetry of the unobtrusive. The magic of this expansive music lies in a courageous aesthetic of modesty, which favours fine-fingered sensitivity over the muscular gestures of musical high-performance sport, and thus a statement against the thundering excesses of spectacle. Yet this graceful sonic art is indeed spectacular in its filigree way. Unpretentiously, the trio have cultivated a kind of gallant tiptoe. The principle is to play softly and generate tension walking on velvet paws. This urgent ensemble music often creates its magic through a calmness bordering on silence."

"virtuous chamber jazz music without the bragging but instead with true treasures of dreamful and lyrical music"
(la liberté)

"Cultivated sound esthetics with a very personal face – one of the most promising projects, Switzerland has to offer at the time"
(jazzthing)

"A piano trio that is swimming brave and successful against the stream of the common genres."
(stereo)

"The compositions are uniformly excellent, filled with unexpected twists and turns with surprising harmonic choices."
(cadence, ny)

"Lyrical without sentimentality, groovy without losing spontaneity, souverne but without getting trapped in a routine the trio develops a touching band sound."
(leipziger zeitung)

"Dem Stefan Aeby Trio ist es gelungen, nach dem schon großartigen are you …? noch zuzulegen. Im Verein mit der klanglich erstklassigen Produktion, dem feinen Cover und den drei bestens aufgelegten Musikern und ihrer inspirierten Musik gibt es hier ein Gesamtpaket, das ein Muss ist. Sehr gelungen!"
(musikansich.de)

"Wie die Sonnenstrahlen durch die dichte Wolkendecke eines Herbsttages brechen die Klaviertöne von Aeby durch das Klangdickicht des Openers 'Vevey'. Gemeinsam steigern sich dir drei Musiker dann in einen kollektiv groovenden Rausch. (…) Bandsound mit magischer Komponente.
(…) die Band verzaubert einmal mehr (…). "
(Jazzthing)

"This is a very engaging disc, from the heady opening "Vevey" through some minimalist, delicately treated sounds to the final gentle chords. Aeby's partnership with bassist André Pousaz continues where it left off on the previous album in 2010 Are you..? His steady phrasing brings the album to its mellow conclusion, with Aeby's melodic but cheeky, light runs never stretching the envelope more than it can bear."
(allaboutjazz.com)

"Improvisation trifft auf Struktur, Kraft und Spielfreude auf souveräne Ruhe. So widersrpüchlich das jetzt klingen mag, so abwechslungsreich ist diese schön Platte."
(hifistars, 12-2013)