There can be many reasons for forming a band. Perhaps it is the desire to find a common language. One that can be more intimate, more poetic, more precise, or more vague. One that evolves, just like those who speak it. Shaped by encounters, always becoming. In the case of the Zurich-based four-piece band District Five and its members Vojko Huter, Paul Amereller, Tapiwa Svosve, and Xaver Rüegg, this proves to be true: the multi-instrumentalists have been meeting in the rehearsal room and beyond for over ten years, reflecting on themselves, their friendship, their influences, and experiences in their music. The result is a work that keeps on moving. Sometimes closer to jazz, sometimes pop, sometimes further away from it, but always close to itself. The band gives the friends the ability to act, which could also be described as agency: to reflect on and shape the thing we call life.

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HELY - Piano and drums trance jazz. A characteristic, multifaceted Sound, virulent rhythmic flows and euphoric improvisation, echoes of minimalism and intensifying staccati, powerful dynamics and trance-like atmosphere.

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Lucca Fries, piano
Jonas Ruther, drums

Die Musik von «Anna&Stoffner» ist wenig anschmiegsam. Raptexte in Mundart werden
von improvisierten Gitarrensounds kommentiert, rockige Riffs legen sich über weiche
Popmeldodien und das Schlagzeug bereitet einen Boden aus Hiphop, Jazz und
Punkrock. Diese Band ist radikal in ihrer Eigenheit und dabei voller Spielfreude.
«Anna&StoJner» bilden einen Gegenentwurf zu dem auf Radio und Spotify
zugeschnittenen Musik-Einheitsbrei. Mit schlauen Texten und einem virtuosen
Bandsound.

Mit: Anna Frey, Florian Stoffner, Vincent Membrez und Lukas Mantel

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