Taking contemporary jazz and cutting it to pieces with a techno-indus blade, math rock scalpel, overlapping tempos and rhythmical breaks gleaned from Meshuggah, one foot in Area 51, the other in the underground passageways of Stranger Things, meet QONIAK.
Photo ©Noé Cauderay
NEWS
Our release "MUTATIO" is out on the amazing label Hummus Records. Great music, awesome people.
Proud and honoured to be part of the family.
CURRENT SHOWS
Selected past concerts
2024 |
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| June 7 | Bienne, First Friday @ LitCafé |
| June 1 | Bienne, Micro Festival |
| January 18 | Bienne, Le Commerce |
| January 13 | Bienne, Le Singe |
2023 |
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| December 14 | Chur, JazzChur @ Marsoel die Bar |
| December 12 | St-Gallen, Himmel Helvetia @ Helvetiastrasse |
| October 5 | Frauenfeld, Generations Festival |
| October 6 | La Chaux-de-Fonds, Bikini Test |
| Mai 26 | Vitznau, Vitznauerhof |
| June 1 | Vevey, l'Oriental |
2022 |
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| Decembre 14 | Bienne, Café du Commerce |
| Septembre 24 | Bienne, Carré Noir |
| July 2 | Bienne, La Barbarie |
| Mai 14 | Saignelégier, BFM |
| April 30 | Genève, AMR |
| April 29 | Sion, Point 11 |
| April 7 | Cully, Jazz Festival |
| February 26 | Bienne, Le Singe, Duo Festival |
2021 |
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| August 21 | Neuchâtel, Rikiki Festival |
| August 28 | Sonvilier, Toxoplasmose Festival |
| September 18 | Yverdon, Amalgame (Oiseaux-Tempête support) |
| September 25 | Genève, AMR Festival @ Point Favre, Chêne-Bourg |
| June 18 | Live radio broadcast, Live @ Couleur3 |
2020 |
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| September 18th | Farel, Bienne |
| January 25th | Coupole, Bieler Music Days Festival, Bienne |
2017 |
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| November 30th | Le Cabinet, Genève |
| September 15th | Chäsi, Gysenstein |
| August 18-27th | UNIVERSUS @ Badenfahrt 2017, Baden |
| June 9th | Festival les Athénéennes, Geneva |
| April 29th | Le Singe, Bienne |
| March 16th | Café du Commerce, Bienne |
| January 28th | Bieler Music Days, Bienne |
2016 |
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| September 3rd | Willisau Jazz Festival, Late Spot |
| July 12th | Pod'Ring Festival, Biel/Bienne |
April 25th - May 8th, Argentinian Tour feat. Franco Fontanarrosa |
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| April 27th | Workshop @ Doyo Estudio, Buenos Aires |
| April 28th | Bisellia, Campana |
| April 29th | Roseti Hall, Caba |
| April 30th | Biblioteca Argentina, Rosario |
| Mai 1st | El Taller Casa de Arte, Santa Fe |
| Mai 3rd | Centro Cultural Municiapal, Rafaela |
| Mai 4th | Workshop @ Bermuda Studio, Rosario |
| Mai 5th | El Salón, Junín |
| Mai 6th | La Mulata, La Plata |
| Mai 7th | Roseti Hall, Caba |
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| April 16th | Schlagzeug @ Cully Jazz Festival |
| February 26th | Bern, Jazzwerkstatt Festival |
2015 |
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| October 27th | Zürich, Das Institut |
June-July 2015, MuzEnergo Tour (RU) : |
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June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 6 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 |
Samara, DKZH Ufa, Concert Hall Satka, DK Stroitel Chelyabinsk, State Phirmonics (Prokofiev Hall) Yekaterinburg, as a part of EverJazz festival Tyumen, Philharmonic Hall Golyshmanovo, DK Yunost Omsk, Philharmonic Hall Kargat (Novosibirsk region), DK Gorkogo Chulym (Novosibirsk region), RDKD Kemerovo, KemGU Concert Hall Novosibirsk, Campus Barnaul, Altai Region Philharmonic Hall Berdsk (Novosibirsk region), GDK Tomsk, State University Culture Center |
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| May 9th | Bern, Sonarraum |
| May 27th | Zurich, Schönegg Variété |
MUTATIO
QONIAK's 2nd album
Recorded at Artefax Studios, Lausanne, by Antoine Etter
Mixed by David Odlum
Mastered by April Golden, Golden Mastering, Ventura California
All compositions by Vincent Membrez
Artwork by H1 Reber, Büro Destruct, Bern
©2020, Hummus Records, HUMM080
First a furious hard-hitting beat, metronomic and obstinate, biting and dislocating. Then one hell of a funky-technoide riff sets in, played on a vintage Moog. Having burnt some rubber, QONIAK can now let rip. And for Vincent Membrez (synth) and Lionel Friedli (drums), “letting rip” means acting like slightly nutty Siamese scientists in a secret lab, randomly turning knobs on a Pro-One 80’s keyboard to see what happens; taking contemporary jazz and cutting it to pieces with a techno-indus blade, math rock scalpel, overlapping tempos and rhythmical breaks gleaned from Meshuggah. With one foot in Area 51, the other in the underground passageways of Stranger Things, “we experiment flat out”, proclaim QONIAK! And desire does the rest.
SENTIENT BEINGS
QONIAK's debut album
Feat. Flo Stoffner, guit
& Joy Frempong, vocals
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Julien Fehlmann @ Studio Mécanique, La Chaux-de-Fonds
©2013, Everest Records, ER052
"Sentient Beings" is a yet unidentified object where the duo's crazy experimental avant-garde textures meets the beautiful and unexpected chants of Joy Frempong and the astral soundscapes guitar playing of Flo Stoffner. The quartet bypasses musical boundaries and take you to an intense trip to a parallel world where you might encounter both Yoda and Cpt. Spock under LSD, playing an unrestrained game of Pong.
