Rusconi

Rusconi is a Swiss jazz band. Their style mixes Free Rock, Noise, New Improvisational Music, Groove and Electronica.

History

Stefan Rusconi (piano), Claudio Strüby (drums) und Richard Pechota (bass) founded the band Rusconi in 2001. In 2004 Fabian Gisler succeeded Richard Pechota on the bass.

Rusconi issued their first two albums with independent Swiss labels and then got into an agreement with Sony Music Germany which in 2009 issued the album One Up Down Left Right. For all three albums mainly Stefan Rusconi wrote the music. In 2010 they dealt in their album It’s a Sonic Life with the works of Sonic Youth. The artwork is made out of video stills by Pipilotti Rist.[1]


RUSCONI in Shibuya, 2013

In 2012 Rusconi terminated the agreement with Sony Music Entertainment and founded their own label Qilin Records. With this step Rusconi wanted to enable their fans - in the age of free downloads - to support them more directly than it would have been possible with a major label. Rusconi issued their recordings on CD, and partly or exclusively on LP. With their 'Manifest' Rusconi adapted to the changed market situation.[2]

Rusconi gave concerts in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Czech Republic, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Japan and Korea.

Styles

Rusconi fuse ideas from jazz, rock and pop. Styles and influences reach from the avant-garde of the electronic music (e.g. Aphex Twin) to noise rock (e.g. Sonic Youth) and to the stars of pop (Radiohead).[5][6]


Video Clips

Rusconi turn video clips for their albums. In 2008 they cooperated for the first time with the Winterthur Movie Collective zweihund and produced the video clip One Up Down Left Right, which was shown at movie festivals the world over. Rusconi received three awards, e.g. the Audience Award and the Jury Award of the Solothurn Movie Days in 2010.

Awards

Rusconi are winners of several awards and rewards.

Discography

Collaborations

Rusconi has been recording and playing concerts with Fred Frith, Luca Aquino, Achille Succi, Sardine Sauvage Dance Company Sweden, Andreas Schaerer and Elia Rediger and worked and collaborated with artists like Pipilotti Rist, Diana Scheunemann, Gregor Brändli, Tobias Madison, Paul Polaris and zweihund collective

Bibliography

External links

References

  1. The Zürich movie maker Michelle Brun filmed the musical short portrait It’s a Sonic Life in 2009 ¦ 2010 to document the making of the 4th album
  2. http://rusconi-music.com/support-us/donate/
  3. Rusconi: Revolution
  4. http://www.beejazz.com/en/artiste/rusconi/
  5. Agnès Jourdain: Rusconi Trio: Stop and Go, April 18th, 2008, called on July 24th, 2010.
  6. Rolf Thomas: Rusconi: Wie befreit. In: kulturnews.de, 25. März 2010. Called on July 24th, 2010.
  7. http://www.prixwalo.ch/uploads/media/Nominationsbroschuere_39_PW.pdf
  8. http://www.schwyzkultur.ch/nachrichten/rusconi-ist-fuer-prix-walo-nominiert-5347.html
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