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Genres
  
Contemporary jazz, Rock

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Origin
  
Zürich, Switzerland (2001)

Members
  
Stefan Rusconi, Fabian Gisler, Claudio Strüby, Richard Pechota

Albums
  
History Sugar Dream, It's a Sonic Life, Stop & Go

Record labels
  
Qilin Records, Sony Music, Bee Jazz

Similar
  
Fred Frith, Norma Winstone, Tobias Preisig, Christoph Stiefel, Jean‑Paul Brodbeck

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

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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.

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.

  • On March 2, 2012 they released the well known album Revolution for free downloads with Bandcamp.
  • In parallel, they produced LPs of the last two albums and released them also for free downloads.
  • Since December 2012 the French label BEEJAZZ distributes the album Revolution as CD.
  • 2014 the band released their new album History Sugar Dream as CD and LP exclusively on their own label Qilin Record and also offers it through bandcamp as a free download.

    • 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).

    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.

  • In 2011 the video clip The Destroyed Room (also produced by zweihund and Rusconi) received the Jury Award of the Solothurn Movie Days.
  • In 2013 the newest product of zweihund and Rusconi Alice in the sky received the award for the 'Best Swiss Video Clip' of the Solothurn Movie Days, m4music and the SUISA Foundation.

    • Awards

    Rusconi are winners of several awards and rewards.

  • 2009: Jury Award and Audience Award of the Solothurn Movie Days for the video clip "One up down left right" of zweihund and Rusconi
  • 2010: Jury Award of the Solothurn Movie Days for the video clip Destroyed Room of zweihund and Rusconi
  • 2010 ... 2012: Support of the foundation Pro Helvetia for Stefan Rusconi and his band Rusconi within its main scope of jazz promotion
  • 2013: Jury Award of the Solothurn Movie Days for the video clip "Alice in the sky" of zweihund and Rusconi
  • 2013: Nomination for Prix Walo (best known Swiss award) as 'Jazz Trio of the year'
  • 2013: Rusconi is winner of the ECHO Jazz Award for 'Best live act 2012'

    • Discography

  • 2004: Scenes & Sceneries (Brambus Records; als 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)
  • 2012: Revolution (LP Qilin Records; CD BEEJAZZ)
  • 2013: It's A Sonic Life (LP Qilin Records)
  • 2014: History Sugar Dream (CD, LP Qilin Records)

    • 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

    Songs

    Alice in the SkyRevolution · 2012
    Chihiro’s WorldHistory Sugar Dream · 2014
    Massage the History AgainRevolution · 2012

    References

    Rusconi Wikipedia
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