Rusconi (band)

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Rusconi (spelling: RUSCONI) was a Swiss jazz trio. It was one of the most successful contemporary representatives of free rock, noise , improvised music , groove and electronica in Switzerland; According to Der Spiegel, it "thrilled" audiences across Europe with jazz-rock fusions. "

history

Stefan Rusconi (piano), Claudio Strüby (drums) and Richard Pechota (bass) founded the band Rusconi in 2001. Fabian Gisler took over from Richard Pechota on bass in 2004.

RUSCONI in Shibuya, 2013

Rusconi first released two albums on independent Swiss labels and then signed with Sony Music Germany, which released the album One Up Down Left Right in 2009 . Stefan Rusconi in particular wrote the music for all three albums. With the album It's a Sonic Life 2010 he dealt with the oeuvre of Sonic Youth.

In 2012, Rusconi separated from Sony Music Entertainment by mutual agreement and founded her own label, Qilin Records . With this step, Rusconi wanted to enable her fans to support them financially more directly than would be possible in the age of free downloads from a major label . The band has now published their recordings on CD, partly also or exclusively ( It's a Sonic Life + Whistler & Hustler Session ) on vinyl LP. The group published a manifesto due to the changed market situation . On March 2, 2012, she released her famous album Revolution for download at Bandcamp . At the same time she produced LPs of her last two albums and released them for download. From December 2012 to 2015 the French label BeeJazz distributed their album Revolution electronically worldwide (also available on CD). After BeeJazz went bankrupt , the band took over the licenses and continues to sell all of their music through their own label Qilin Records.

The live album Rusconi + Fred Frith - live in Europe , released in 2016 on Qilin Records, was her last. At the end of 2017, the band broke up by mutual agreement. On your band side they thank you for the keen interest and support over the past 14 years.

Rusconi has given concerts in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, England, Sweden, Belgium, Moldova, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, China and Korea.

The Deutschlandfunk series Jazzfacts produced a one-hour musical radio band portrait on July 21, 2016.

style

"Unpredictable and erratic, wavering between composition and improvisation, Rusconi develop their characteristic garage jazz from fundamentally different influences." The band fuses ideas from jazz, rock and pop. The styles and influences range from the avant-garde of electronic music ( e.g. Aphex Twin ) to noise rock (e.g. Sonic Youth ) to the greats of pop ( Radiohead ).

Video clips and the collaboration with the two- dog film collective

The band had video clips made for their albums. In 2008 there was the first collaboration with the Winterthur film collective Zweihund . This resulted in the video clip One Up Down Left Right . It has been shown at numerous film festivals around the world and won three prizes, including a. the audience award and the jury award at the Solothurn Film Festival 2010. The video clip The Destroyed Room, also by Zweihund and Rusconi , was awarded the Jury Award at the Solothurn Film Festival 2011. The latest and, for the time being, last work by Zweihund and Rusconi , Alice in the sky , was named 'Best Swiss Video Clip' in 2013 by the Solothurner Filmtage, m4music and the SUISA Foundation.

Prizes and awards

The video clip One Up Down Left Right won three prizes, including a. the audience award and the jury award at the Solothurn Film Festival 2009. The video clip The Destroyed Room, also by Zweihund and Rusconi , was awarded the Jury Award at the Solothurn Film Festival 2010. The latest work by Zweihund and the band, Alice in the Sky , was also named “Best Swiss Video Clip” in 2013 by the Solothurn Film Festival , m4music and the SUISA Foundation .

2010 ... 2012 the Pro Helvetia Foundation supported Rusconi within the framework of priority jazz funding.

In 2013 the band was awarded an ECHO Jazz as Best Live Act 2012 .

Also in 2013 the band was nominated for the Prix ​​Walo (most famous Swiss award) as 'Jazz Trio of the Year'.

Discography

  • 2004: Scenes & Sceneries (Brambus Records; as Rusconi Trio)
  • 2006: Stop & Go ( Unit Records / Sony)
  • 2009: One Up Down Left Right (Sony Music Germany)
  • 2010: It's a Sonic Life (Sony Music Germany / 2013: LP Qilin Records)
  • 2012: Revolution (LP Qilin Records; CD BeeJazz)
  • 2014: History Sugar Dream (Qilin Records)
  • 2016: Rusconi & Fred Frith - Live in Europe (Qilin Records)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Hielscher:; Swiss Jazz: The Groove Power Spiegel Online, March 30, 2013
  2. ↑ On the album History Sugar Dream , guitar and vocals are added as additional timbres.
  3. ↑ The Zurich filmmaker Michelle Brun shot a musical short film portrait in 2009/2010 with the title It's a Sonic Life and documented the creation of the fourth album.
  4. ↑ http://rusconi-music.com/support-us/donate/
  5. ↑ RUSCONI: Revolution
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beejazz.com
  7. ↑ JazzFacts: Portrait of the Rusconi Trio , Deutschlandfunk July 21, 2016, accessed July 21, 2016
  8. ↑ Review History Sugar Dream on laut.de.
  9. ↑ Agnès Jourdain: RUSCONI Trio: Stop and Go 18 April, 2008. Accessed July 24 of 2010.
  10. ^ Rolf Thomas: Rusconi: How liberated . In: kulturnews.de , March 25, 2010. Accessed July 24, 2010.
  11. ↑ 39th Prix Walo: The Nominees ( Memento from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ meeting (laut.de)