by Mathilda Olmi
LEA GASSER 5TET
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Lea Gasser (acc, comp.) / Mirko Maio (p, rhodes) / Samuel Urscheler (as, ss)
Romain Ballarini (dr) / Emilio Giovanoli (db)
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Catchy and lyrical melodies meet self-confident bass lines. Muted strings breathe under melancholic sounds. Sometimes the music dances, quivering with love of life, then it slows down dreamily and leaves room for solo narratives to unfold.
The Lea Gasser 5tet was born out of the young accordionist's long-cherished desire to bring
her own musical language to the stage. After completing a classical training, accordionist Lea Gasser finds her way into a jazz master's degree due to her curiosity for other worlds of sound.
Embedded in the quintet sound of her small jazz orchestra, the musician creates personal
compositions that describe seemingly inconspicuous everyday moments on stage - Nuit
Dansante, Pepito, Monday Blues. As a bandleader, the musician realises ideas that reveal her varied musical background. In her jazz compositions, classical influences and folk music elements merge into a rhythmic web of melodic complexity.
In doing so, the young band elicits lively stories from the compositions with great curiosity
each time. The group released its first album, "L'Heure Bleue", in December 2022 and was
selected for Suisse Diagonales Jazz 2024.
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@emilio.giovanoli.bass
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by Anne-Julie Ruz