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Clemens Kuratle Murmullo

Saxophon

Posaune

Gitarre

Bass

Schlagzeug

Live-Elektronik

Komposition

Roh und hochaktuell ist die Musik von Murmullo. Hier trifft Neue Musik auf Bach und Rock auf afrikanische Rhythmen. Die Klangpalette der Band, angereichert mit elektroakustischen Effekten, reicht von sphärischen, hymnischen Klängen bis zu unkonventionellen, treibenden Grooves. Doch die Melodien geben eine motivische und emotionale Richtung vor, welche die Improvisationen der Solisten befeuert und inspiriert. Festivalpass für Wettbewerbsabende &amp; Finale: https://www.starticket.ch/de/tickets/festivalpass-20190505-1900-moods-zurich

Hely

Piano

Drum Kit

«Plode»

A battered parlour piano, next to it a simply equipped drum set: that&#x27;s all Hely need. The young Zurich duo of pianist Lucca Fries and drummer Jonas Ruther start their pieces from nowhere and let them end in somewhere. The audience closes its eyes, opens its ears wide and floats away into inner spaces or worlds of thought. With driving rhythms and intoxicating sounds, the two musicians play themselves and their audience into ecstasy. What this acoustic duo creates in terms of sound intensity is extraordinary - and brings joy: anticipation for their new album &quot;Plode&quot;, which will be released in April 2023 on Nik Bärtsch&#x27;s boutique label Ronin Rhythm Records.

Marie Krüttli Trio

The Marie Krüttli Trio impresses, is exciting, colourful and daring. With a mature tone, clear aesthetics and beguiling virtuosity, the Swiss woman manoeuvres herself and her band colleagues through intricate rhythms and interwoven chains of chords. The melodies shimmer groovily, the players appear charming and with a lot of enigmatic wit, always deeply rooted in the European piano tradition and influenced by the sound ideals of Stravinsky and Debussy.

Evelinn Trouble Orchestra

Guitar

Violin

Viola

Cello

Evelinn Trouble

One year after her fifth studio album &quot;Longing Fever&quot; won the &#x27;Indie Suisse Album Of The Year Award&#x27;, Evelinn Trouble is back on tour with her band. Evelinn Trouble, known for her creative restlessness, her virtuoso voice and her idiosyncratic songwriting has added an exciting pop work to her discography with &quot;Longing Fever&quot; - a break with her psychedelic era but still unmistakably Trouble. It&#x27;s an exciting album that traverses highs and lows with fervour, ranging from Beatlesque love songs to euphoric melodies buoyed by distorted hip-hop. Unexpectedly, new sounds of string instruments join the otherwise dark sound universe of the singer: a string trio expands the band to the &quot;Evelinn Trouble Orchestra&quot;.

Christoph Grab's BLOSSOM

Trumpet

Albumtaufe

The compositions for BLOSSOM were created in the spring of 2020. Christoph Grab was not looking for these compositions, they came to him in irregular intervals during the first Corona lockdown, mostly unasked - blossoming like flowers spreading hope again after the winter. He later realized that these new compositions had much to do with his moods during the lockdown, so that these pieces unintentionally became a kind of diary of his lockdown period. According to the saxophonist, he couldn&#x27;t get the flower metaphor out of his head, and so the new program is now called &quot;BLOSSOM&quot;. Furthermore, the compositions (which were originally written without names) have also received English flower names, such as &quot;Feverfew&quot;, &quot;Love in the mist&quot;, &quot;Bleeding heart&quot;, &quot;Mad dog skullcap&quot;, &quot;African daisy&quot; or &quot;Johnny jump up&quot;. The music of BLOSSOM means of transportation for stories and emotions, an adventurous music full of warmth, built on friendship and mutual support, for a band that becomes a unit, a breathing organism.

Zurich Jazz Orchestra feat. Yumi Ito

Leitung

Trombone

Tuba

Horn (Cornet)

Vocals

Yumi Ito is not only a distinguished musician, but also an independent composer and singer who moves weightlessly and at the same time competently between jazz, art-pop, electronica, free improvisation and neo-classical music, generating a sound that comes across as fresh and often surprising. The musician, composer and arranger with Polish and Japanese roots navigates through the musical fields with concentration and precision, unwaveringly following her own path. Ed Partyka arranges the guest singer&#x27;s compositions for the Zurich Jazz Orchestra and its soloists. The music comes mainly from Yumi Ito&#x27;s critically acclaimed albums &quot;Stardust Crystals&quot; and &quot;Ekual&quot;.

AKI: Lucia Cadotsch – Kit Downes – Phil Donkin – James Maddren

Berlin-based Swiss singer Lucia Cadotsch, leader of the bands SPEAK LOW and LIUN + The Science Fiction Band, meets London ECM artist Kit Downes, drummer James Maddren and bassist Phil Donkin. Together they explore their love of undiscovered songs in an intimate chamber music context. It is the continuum and deepening of their previous work together in Speak Low (with Kit as guest). This unique quartet presents well-known and yet-to-be-discovered songs, as well as original compositions.

Bureau Bureau

Vibraphon

Festival Finale

The two finalists will compete against each other for the victory. The first concert starts at 8:30 pm and the second at 9:45 pm. This will be followed by the award ceremony, including the announcement of the first-place winners of the ZKB Audience Award.

Louis Matute Large Ensemble

Fender-Rhodes E-Piano

Festival

Louis Matute is an exceptional electric guitar player. He is involved in a whole series of major projects. Matute is inspired by current forms of jazz and mixes them with elements of Latin American music. The result is a sound that is warm and rhythmic, but at the same time mysterious and melancholic.

Tie Drei

Flugelhorn

The music of the young Swiss jazz pop trio TIE DREI is dedicated to the concept of &quot;time&quot; and the perception of it in a multi-layered way. Sonja Ott (trumpet), Hannah Adriana Müller (vocals and violin) and Johanna Pärli (double bass) explore the possibilities of their instruments in their joint writing process, allowing their sounds to grow into a nimble, multiform structure. The transparent instrumentation allows each musician a lot of freedom for improvisation and own expression: in the fragility of the trio lies its power.

Bureau Bureau play experimental music as a duo with a focus on lyrics and work together on a wide variety of other projects: Currently they are composing a work for improvising orchestra on the theme of glacial melt, writing re-works of an ensemble friend, working on a &quot;church reverb&quot; program, and released their first album as a book in June 2022. Bureau Bureau works virtually as an actual bureau for small and large stories. And sound. Sound!

Cheibe Balagan

Clarinet

Accordion

Plattentaufe «Duschin Duschin»

In the best klezmer tradition, Cheibe Balagan draws on various musical influences - from Eastern Europe to Switzerland to Japan - and fuses them into rousing, danceable pieces. The Zurich septet gained national fame through the soundtrack of the hit movie «Wolkenbruch» and since then has been creating an exuberant atmosphere, whether at the Montreux Jazz Festival, street festivals or in dimly lit bars. At Moods, Cheibe Balagan will release their third Album answering the essential questions of life such as: What do unicorn hunters have in common with in-laws? How do you greet the mice in the kitchen? And how many onions belong in a pot of «gefilte fish»?

Ikarus

Plattentaufe

Ikarus is two-voice singing that ranges from soft to penetrative and from melodious to scat, and a rhythm section that groovily experiments with challenging meters. The Swiss band is often underway in Europe and Japan and kidnaps the listener with a constantly-changing soundmobile. Under the direction of composer and drummer Ramón Oliveras, the playing - comprising polyrhythms, driving grooves, organic improvisation and the blend of both voices - results in a unique music. The quintet offers an engaging and unprecedented live show – contemporary Jazz, which in its creation time and again takes an unexpected turn. In Moods they will release their new album, «Plasma».

Hikikomori [Musik zum Rückzug aus der Gesellschaft]

Flute

Synthesizer

Live Elektronic

Joana Aderi

A Hikikomori is extremely scared of leaving his comfort zone. He retreats from the community and avoids every contact. Bit by bit, he switches off the communication channels to other people until he feels safe in his little room. He passes the days with sleeping, watching television and losing himself in virtual worlds. He no longer leaves his room, a first for a few days, then for weeks, months, even years. Overwhelmed by relationship events, from the demands that the outside makes on him, eaten up by negative voices, which, amplified internally, turn in endless loops. And over and again this feeling somehow to be different. Here am I – there outside the others, and in between there is much insecurity. We are not Hikikomori, but we run close, the majority for a lifetime. Joana Aderi has used her Moods Carte Blanche in order to compose a piece and bring it to the stage. Urban Jazz, drained melodies in free-hanging chords, flashbacks of Renaissance harmonic, absurd Pop litter, carried by empty, minimal Electronic: her music is actually always laid out as a collage. She loves rapid, surprising changes and clashes of style «of the good sort». https://www.eiko-music.com/

Arthur Hnatek Trio

The double-bass accentuates the angular riffs and breaks, whilst unshakeable saxophone solos soar over improvised passages. The compositions of Arthur Hnatek, the drummer from Geneva, show that there is also Jazz somewhere between Metal, Ambient-Electro and Breakbeat. The trio - with the highly talented Fabien Iannone and Francesco Geminiani – won the ZKB Jazz Prize in 2019 and in 2021 released its debut album, «Static». Hnatek, known as a sideman for musicians such as Tigran Hamasyan and Erik Truffaz, here proves once again, that he is also an exceptionally gifted bandleader. For this concert, the 2G admission rule applies: All guests need a valid Covid certificate from Switzerland or EU (QR Code) for vaccinated or recovered persons with an official ID (ID, passport, driver’s license). The detailed admission rules are listed here: https://www.moods.club/en/program/admission-rules-covid/

Andrina Bollinger

Andrina Bollinger lives in Zurich and her roots are in Engadin. Her music is a space that constantly changes. Sometimes it appears as a castle, then as Turrell’s Skyspace, or portrays itself as the deep ocean. Bollinger explores and plays all of these spaces with her voice – she screams, hums, speaks, wheezes therein, and thus creates pieces, each a space for itself. In these rooms she then researches topics: the future-I pops up, lyrics inspired by painting and poetry or nature, politics and feelings events. Thereby the spectrum is endless and matches Bollinger’s interests. The performer celebrates her variety in her award-winning projects, such as Eclecta, JPTR and the French Avant-Trumpeter Erik Truffaz. And newly also solo, where all of these influences turn into an uncompromising great big whole – into Andrina Bollinger’s own space, her castle, or: her music. For this concert, the 2G admission rule applies: All guests need a valid Covid certificate from Switzerland or EU (QR Code) for vaccinated or recovered persons with an official ID (ID, passport, driver’s license). The detailed admission rules are listed here: https://www.moods.club/en/program/admission-rules-covid/

Christoph Stiefel New Quintet

Composition

Christoph Stiefel 

Christoph Stiefel has been internationally underway for years with his solo, duo, trio and septet projects. Now he brings a brand new formation to the stage, the «Christoph Stiefel Quintet». The new band simultaneously represents much of his previous efforts: the orchestral expansion of his long-standing concept work with the «Inner Language Trio» together with the transfer of the experience from the «Christoph Stiefel Septet» to the smallest possible orchestral entity. Everything is possible, from minimal to orchestral. Nevertheless the band remains a manageable, intimate organismus with much freedom and interplay. In order that everything can also be realised musically, Christoph Stiefel has written new compositions for the band and gathered up some of the best musicians from the European Jazz scene: trusted band colleagues from the septet such as Bastian Stein (tp) and Domenic Landolf (ts) together with a new rhythm section with Raffaele Bosshard (bass) and Dejan Terzic (dr). In his new quintet, Stiefel also remains stylistically loyal, with beautiful melodies, dense harmonic, and a full load of rhythmical energy. Something to look forward to! For this concert, the 2G admission rule applies: All guests need a valid Covid certificate from Switzerland or EU (QR Code) for vaccinated or recovered persons with an official ID (ID, passport, driver’s license). The detailed admission rules are listed here: https://www.moods.club/en/program/admission-rules-covid/

Tommy Vercetti

Keyboards

Percussion

«No 3 Nächt bis Morn»

Nine years have elapsed since Tommy Vercetti&#x27;s fulminant debut «Seiltänzer» (tightrope walker), which many consider to be the milestone of Swiss Rap and has had an effect way beyond the musical borders- not least being awarded the Berner Literaturpreis.  Nobody combines Rap, Literature, Musicality and Zeitgeist like he does. The album produced by Pablo Nouvelle poses the key question as to whether music can still play a freeing role in society. Or to be more specific: if you challenge these dark times and the associated cynical or removed-from-reality pop culture, to what extent can one paint an optimistic picture of the future? The result: not only has the Swiss press almost fallen over themselves with praise for the new album «No 3 Nächt bis Morn», but even The Guardian claimed: «He takes soul back to the future.» For admission, all guests need a valid Covid certificate from Switzerland or EU (QR code) for vaccinated, tested or recovered persons and an official ID card (ID, passport or driver&#x27;s license). The detailed admission rules are listed here: https://www.moods.club/en/program/admission-rules-covid/

Lea Lu

Bass Clarinet

Lea Lu 

Following Lea Lu’s 2017 EP «rabbit», which she recorded completely alone and released single-handedly, she has drawn on all her resources and returns to Moods with a new album, «I Call You». Totally fresh and with lots of drive, the acoustic songs tell of the pleasure of, and the longing for, connection and encounter. Also, however, of the fermented loneliness, for example in the form of nightly desert melodies, and of freedom. For admission, all guests need a valid Covid certificate from Switzerland or EU (QR code) for vaccinated, tested or recovered persons and an official ID card (ID, passport or driver&#x27;s license). The detailed admission rules are listed here: https://www.moods.club/en/program/admission-rules-covid/

Acid Amazonians

WET WET WET

Probably the most courageous Swiss band takes us by surprise with interference sounds, feminsitic proliferation and monotonal virtuosity. During their live performances the focus is on improvisation. Everything else is coincidence, like applause for the Big Bang, and garbage in outer space. Why? Because it can be different! «How To Take Up Space&gt;, the debut album of the band from Zurich has just been released. Both cumbersome and full of relish.

Clemens Kuratle Murmullo

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