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Jochen Baldes - Big Fish

Saxophon

Trombone

Trumpet

Fender-Rhodes E-Piano

Guitar

Bass

Drum Kit

It goes «Boom!» when Backbeat and horn sections flood the ear canals, the driving beat pushes the soloists and waves of tone cascades threaten to burst the room. With cleverly-written compositions, fat and colourful arrangement, and expressive playing, the band Big Fish drags us out of the seats and allows us to cheerfully experience, the power that music can possess. The band’s top-drawer line-up interprets the pieces by Jochen Baldes and Christian Rösli with verve and drive. A real pleasure!

Meduoteran feat. Carles Benavent

Accordion

Percussion

The duo Meduoteran is impressive with its musical authenticity and innovation. The accordion player Srdjan Vukasinovic and the Baglama player Taylan Arikan enchant the audience with their unique tonal language and virtuoso instrumental style. With the legendary Spanish bassist, Carles Benavent, and the percussionist, Roberto Hacaturyan, the duo has developed into a quartet and plays its own compositions, which combines classical elements with folklore passages and defiant jazz – profound, melancholic, virtuoso.

KALI

Piano

The Zurich Kantonalbank encourages young, innovative Swiss bands with the ZKB Jazz Prize. The 15th edition of the ZKB Jazz Prize is a public six-day festival from 30th April to 5th May 2017 staged in Moods. For the finale on 5th May, the two jurors Elina Duni and Erik Truffaz will appear on stage with their musical collague Bugge Wesseltoft. In 2015 Raphael Loher and Urs Müller from Luzern and Nicolas Stocker from Zurich created the trio, Kali. Founded as a Working Band, they develop their own blend of contemporary classical, alternative rock and improvised music – as if Rage Against the Machine and Morton Feldman had a daughter. From wonderful minimalistic intermezzos to astonishingly catchy, dense and powerful compositions, they derive a broad, dynamic and stylistic range without ever losing their own sound.

Matthieu Llodra Trio

The Zurich Kantonalbank encourages young, innovative Swiss bands with the ZKB Jazz Prize. The 15th edition of the ZKB Jazz Prize is a public six-day festival from 30th April to 5th May 2017 staged in Moods. For the finale on 5th May, the two jurors Elina Duni and Erik Truffaz will appear on stage with their musical collague Bugge Wesseltoft. The Matthieu Llodra Trio moves somewhere between jazz, electronic music, Pop and Rock. They made a name for themselves at the Cully Jazz Festival, where since 2013 the trio leads the often wild jam-Sessions in the Caveau des Vignerons. Meanwhile, the three musicians have already shared the stage with greats such as Popa Chubby, Guillaume Perret and Nenad Gajin geteilt and now present their first album: groovy, enriched with electronic sounds and improvisation.

District Five

District Five take the currents of today&#x27;s jazz and forms them into their own tonal language with a perspective on tradition. However, they simultaneously demonstrate the courage to shift boundaries. A music full of ideas and tension with boundless energy and self-confidence – always ready to break out of the moment and into the happening. Virtuoso contemporary jazz with American flair!

Raphael Walsers GangArt

The bassist forms the backbone of a band, and without one it typically all falls fairly flat. Raphael Walser, born in Zurich in 1988, has matured into a robust backbone-bassist, yet simultaneously proved that you also have to take him seriously as a composre and soloist. The quintet&#x27;s multi-faceted, unpretentious music is a dialogue between proven and experimental forms of expression. In other words: here we have a band at work that knows its onions, but is also prepared to take risks.

ZKB Jazzpreis Finale - Raphael Walsers Gangart

The Zurich Cantonal Bank encourages young, innovative Swiss bands via the ZKB Jazz Prize. The 15th edition of the ZKB Jazz Prize is staged as a public six-day festival from 30th April to 5th May 2017 in Moods. The two finalists compete against each other for victory. The first concert is at 20.30, the second at 21.45, followed by the prize-giving ceremony.

ZKB Jazzpreis Finale - District Five

Jean-Paul Brodbeck Trio «Extra Time»

Following an intensive creative phase as a sideman to the most diverse international musicians such as Johannes Enders, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Billy Hart and Andy Scherrer, in 2016 Jean-Paul Brodbeck formed his Swiss trio with the young bass talent, Lukas Traxel, and his long-standing companion, Claudio Strüby, on drums. Modern musical candour combines with the earthy spirit of the jazz tradition, Brodbeck&#x27;s new compositions define the program. One hears a melodious and flowing repertoire which celebrates the interactive playing and represents the art form of the «piano-trio» in its totality.

Clemens Kuratle Murmullo

Live Elektronic

Composition

Murmullo’s music is raw and bang up to date. It is where New Music meets up with Bach and Rock with African rhythms. The band’s sound palette, enriched with electro-acoustic effects, ranges from atmospheric, hymnal sounds to unconventional, driving grooves. Yet the melodies define the motive and emotional direction, which inspires and fuels the soloists’ improvisations.

Schnellertollermeier

Schnellertollermeier play uncompromising music between modern composition, minimal music, psychedelic and brutal rock music, saw through genre boundaries with instrumental force and wisely pitch the heart against the head. Since working on their album «X», their music demonstrates the clear intention for the band to sound like a single compact organismus, inside which there are no limits between persons or individual instruments. «X» gained rave reviews throughout the whole world and was voted by the US Wall Street Journal as one of the 12 best albums in 2015 – alongside Björk, Kendrick Lamar, Courtney Barnett and Battles.

Marc Méan's «Taïga»

Flugelhorn

Marc Méan is active in various line-ups as pianist, keyboarder and composer. «Taïga», his new project with Matthieu Michel on the flügelhorn, Valentin Liechti on drums and bassist Fabien Iannone blends electronic with acoustic. In Méan&#x27;s words: «,Taïga&#x27;, that is the noise of the world, the illuminated mist of a lost landscape, tormented poesie. ,Taïga&#x27; sounds like the damped echo of a huge boreal pine wood...» In short: eyes closed and travel to foreign worlds!

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Rhythm Clan

Flute

Bass Clarinet

An old acquaintance is the guest to start the season – Nik Bärtsch. For 13 years he has played Zurich every Monday with Ronin in the neighbouring club Exil, since its founding in 2009. The idea to expand into a Rhythm Clan came from the Artist-In-Residence in Moods in 2002. Meanwhile, Bärtsch has established his own genre of „Ritual Groove Music“ on the international stage and suddenly it&#x27;s almost ten years since he last played Moods. High time to change that! The start to the season in the 25 years jubilee year and the launch of www.moods.digital provide the perfect opportunity to again invite our friends and neighbours and together with Exil to jointly celebrate at the party afterwards.

Peter Kernel & Their Wicked Orchestra

Cello

Viola

You can slot her somewhere between Art Punk, Post Pop and Indie Rock: the duo Peter Kernel, comprising the Canadian songstress Barbara Lehnhoff alias Camilla Sparksss and the guitarist from Tessin, guitarist Aris Bassetti. The singing sometimes tender, then again screamed, the guitar melodies distorted and the rhythms forceful – there is no lack of creativity and the desire to experiment. Yet now and then, inbetween, we find beautiful melodic detours, harmonies and lyrics that invite us to sing along. The cello, harp and harmonium add further dimensions to the Wicked Orchestra and the music of Peter Kernel.

Šuma Čovjek

Vocals

Clarinet

Keyboards

With their blend of Balkan, Polka, World, Brass and Jazz, the ten boys with Swiss-Bosnian-Algerian roots do not sound in the slightest like a typical Balkan Pop band. Melancholic Sevdah melodies trade places with tight horn passages, on a foundation featuring a groovy rhythm section. The songs will be sung alternately in Arabic, English, French, Serbo-Croatish, Roma and Spanish with seamless transition. Sounds like Babylonian language confusion? It is indeed. Yet music that seduces us to dance is a language that everyone understands.

Lucien Dubuis Trio

The trio from Biel, led by saxophonist Lucien Dubuis, rises above the Swiss music scene with its cheeky approach to jazz and direct and uncompromising playing. The three musicians fully stretch the definition of jazz, which they combine with rough rock and hip-hop beats in order to powerfully, yet playfully deliver their own compositions on stage. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the band is now on tour with its newest album, «Reloaded» (2017).

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Nils Wogram

The cooperation between the ZJO and trombonist Nils Wogram who lives near Zurich has been long awaited. Wogram has long been recognised as one of the leading trombone players, and not only in Switzerland. His velvety, exquisitely smooth and versatile playing has impressed both critics and audiences alike for more than twenty years. The 44-year-old Wogram clearly has his roots in classic jazz, yet his horizon is broad: sometimes he plays Bebop, sometimes he drags jazz into a new millenium, then he leads another Big Band project. Or he takes on a Duke Ellington classic and transports it courageously yet respectfully into the modern age. With the Zurich Jazz Orchestra, Wogram plays own compositions and arrangements where he is the common denominator.

Tobias Preisig Solo

Violin

Match&amp;Fuse stands for the dialogue and networking throughout the European creative music scene and within this context presents a festival of music that ignores stylistic boundaries. It provides a unique platform for progressive and authentic performers and their projects. Following London, Oslo, Rom, Warschau, Toulouse and Dublin, for the first time a Match&amp;Fuse Festival has been organised in Zurich and showcases fascinating acts from Switzerland, UK, France, Sweden and Norway. Tobias Preisig, Schnellertollermeier, Soccer96, IOKOI &amp; ARIA, Acapulco Redux, In Girum, The True Harry Nulz, Øyunn, Match&amp;Fuse Ensemble, Lucia Cadotsch Speak Low, Lucia Cadotsch Speak Low Renditions, Tim &amp; Puma Mimi, Farvel, Colin Vallon Trio Electric, KALI Complete Program under www.matchandfuse.ch Pro Abend: 35.– Festival: 60.– https://www.starticket.ch/de/tickets/29300917-zwei-tages-pass-match-fuse-festival-20170929-2000-moods-zurich

Discover Switzerland

All Discover Switzerland

Jochen Baldes - Big Fish

Meduoteran feat. Carles Benavent

KALI

Matthieu Llodra Trio

District Five

Raphael Walsers GangArt

ZKB Jazzpreis Finale - Raphael Walsers Gangart

ZKB Jazzpreis Finale - District Five

Jean-Paul Brodbeck Trio «Extra Time»

Clemens Kuratle Murmullo

Schnellertollermeier

Marc Méan's «Taïga»

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Rhythm Clan

Peter Kernel & Their Wicked Orchestra

Šuma Čovjek

Lucien Dubuis Trio

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Nils Wogram

Tobias Preisig Solo

Schnellertollermeier

The True Harry Nulz

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