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Tri Dela
Šalter Ensemble operates on the border between free improvisation and composition, focusing on collective processes as a central part of its practice. The project is an international electro-acoustic ensemble initiated in 2017 by Jonas Kocher in col…
Stranger Becoming
2024 stock. The Swiss-based trio Koch/Loriot/Kocher formed in the summer of 2020 has kept developing a distinct musical identity ever since. The band makes use of insistently repeated motifs, broken melodic lines and occasional tonal harmonies cohabi…
Frieda Bertelsohn Martholdy: Streichquartette – Entschlummern Sollst Du, Sollst Entschlummern
2024 stock. The album Entschlummern sollst du, sollst entschlummern (engl.: Thou shall slumber, slumber, shall thou) brings us the first ever released recordings of four string quartets by Frieda Bertelsohn Martholdy (1878 -1907), a composer yet unkn…
Cone Of Confusion
"A fantastic record, filled with curves and swerves. The trio has a driving frictious nature that is fairly indelible." - TJ Norris, Toneshift
Untitled
2024 stock. Christian Kesten - Untitled (solo for accordion). (Written for Jonas Kocher and premiered in Paris in April 2014). "The accordion contains some remarkable mechanical characteristics. In the highest register of the right hand, the last few…
Perspectives And Echoes / Tautologos III
-bRt- group for music creationGaudenz Badrutt, live electronics / Estelle Beiner, violin / Jacques Demierre, piano / Jonas Kocher, accordion (Tautologos III) / Stephen Menotti, trombone / Manon Pierrehumbert, harp / Christian Wolfarth, percussion
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Koch / Kocher / Badrutt
This release documents a concert recorded on May 2nd 2014, at the record shop Blutopia in Rome, and was part of a short italian tour. All three musicians have been collaborating for many years in different formations (duo Badrutt-Kocher, duo Koch-Bad…
Kocher / Manouach / Papageorgiou
This album is the first recorded artifact of the collaboration between Jonas Kocher, Ilan Manouach and Dimitris Papageorgiou. Their musical backgrounds, as a whole, demonstrate a hybrid of origins, ranging from classical music, to jazz and traditiona…
Quiet Novosibirsk
From August 31 to September 10, 2014 Swiss musicians Jonas Kocher and Gaudenz Badrutt teamed up with St.Petersburg-based saxophone player Ilia Belorukov for a series of seven concerts in Russia. For this trip, they were accompanied by photographer Lu…