Gaudenz Badrutt
Biel/Bienne, electronics
Ilia Belorukov
Novi Sad, alto saxophone
Jonas Kocher
Biel/Bienne, accordion
World-class electro acoustic chamber music made of huge dynamic contrasts evolving from refined vibrating soundscapes to eruptive attacks. The music of the trio is characterized by a strong feeling for long improvisational developments. The trio performed since 2014 in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, France, Switzerland and Serbia. Besides trio, Ilia and Gaudenz play as an electronic duo, and since 2022 they all playing in Šalter Ensemble, a 10-piece band with musicians from Switzerland, Slovenia and Austria.
"Bleak, cold, slow to the point of inertia, and full of unexpected silences, this is still an impressive bout of minimal blap, packed with existential doubts and strange emotions. " (Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector)
"The great fascination of this disc is to hear the ways in which the players explore the effect of the space then adapt to and exploit it. Tentative at first—sounding single notes then leaving plenty of silence to hear the responses to them—they gradually come to terms with its characteristics and are then able to slowly build up a complex, richly satisfying drone, to which all four contribute component parts and then... silence. Then, a three-way exchange dominated by accordion but punctuated by electronic tones and strategic silences which become more and more frequent. Very engaging and atmospheric. " (John Eyles, All About Jazz)
Releases
Quiet Novosibirsk (with Alexander Markvart) (Bruit Editions / Edition Haus am Gern, 2016)
Rotonda (Intonema, 2015)
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Šalter Ensemble "Tri dela" (Bruit Editions / Zavod Sploh, 2024)