Ambidextrous (Nick Zavriev) (Rus) - IDM
Bigeneric (Marco Repetto) (CH) - Electro, melodic dreamy electronica
VÍZ (Réka Csiszér) (CH) - Transylvanian Incantations / Sci-Fi Expressionist
Field of pikes (Anton Ponomarev) (CH) - Recursive DJ-ing

Ambidextrous

is the stage name for Nick Zavriev, an electronic musician born in Moscow, Russia. His solo work primarily focuses on IDM, electro and ambient, but he is also involved in a number of side projects ranging from krautrock to italo disco. Since the start of his music career in the late 90s Ambidextrous has released over 10 albums including the 2001 LP “Errorism”, which got favorable reviews both in Russian and International media and brought him recognition ever since. Nick’s music came out on classic IDM labels such as U-cover, n5MD, Toytronic, m3rck and many more. Currently Ambidextrous works with Moscow-based label SEALT known for deluxe vinyl pressings and a number of European labels including Pulse State (UK) and Fantasy Enhancing (UK/Italy). The latest Ambidextrous album called "Grounded Rectangle" came out in late May 2023 on Moscow-based Mestnost label. In addition to his music career, Nick teaches modern and contemporary music courses in Moscow Music School and HSE School of Design, runs a popular educational music podcast "Planetronica", gives public lectures and works as a music journalist and critic.

Links:
http://ambidextrous.bandcamp.com/
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Ambidextrous
https://soundcloud.com/ambidextrous
http://www.mixcloud.com/nickzavriev/
https://www.facebook.com/ambidextrousofficial/

Marco Repetto

Marco’s musical journey got started in 1978, more precise: with the punk rock bands from Berne Switzerland as founder, named “Glueams”, “Grauzone” and “Eigernordwand”. By the end of 1989 this phase was followed by the first raves and pure electric dance parties, where Marco was discovered by the Bernese DJ legend “Boumi B.” As from that time, Marco’s musical spectrum developed all the way through hypnotic techno, over ambient to psychedelic sound compositions and sound installations.

Marco’s music, which is strongly influenced by the beauty of nature, shamanic knowledge and day dreaming, arises empathically through sound research and sound experiments, that melt together in studios but also in life performances.

The musical broadness of his life acts is affected by warm rhythms, soft and space filling basses, that continue to push the colour trip, different atmospheres and full body sounds and samples. Marco’s performance is often lovely, playful and always newly interpreted, in a symbiosis with the energy of the moment.

Now one often hears Marco perform with mind opening drones and dense sound patterns. In the meantime “Bigeneric” has become his main project.

Friends of Marco often describe his life acts as being on a exciting, adventures and psychedelic train ride, something one really likes to experience once in a while.

Marco’s musical curiosity leads him to cooperations with performers such as “Don Li” or the “Appenzeller Hackbrettformation Anderscht” (the Appenzell dulcimer formation), an upcoming exciting musical enterprise with the punky folklore singer Christine Lauterburg, the sound artist “Stini Arn”, working on her magic loom and a psychedelic ambient experience with “The Starwaves” (Marco Repetto (Electronics), Lukas Weber (guitar) and Henry Thomet (guitar)). Other artists, painters, such as Franz Bruelhart, Schwarz Gänsehaut, Sylvia Hostettler and more, have found their way to Marco’s musical production. The contact to the legend teller Andreas Sommer inspired Marco to the album Helva from the beautiful profound legend from the Gantrisch region Helva the Fairy Queen. Since 2018, Live Performance and studio productions with Daniel Wihler have increased, together they are Alphagenic. Beautiful live performances with Bruno Spoerri 2022 / 2023. His latest album Bigeneric - Faol (Inzec Records 033) has been released in summer 2024, which Marco dedicated to the precious being Wolf. Marco Repetto is currently the coach of Russian electronica artist Nick Zevriev aka Ambidextrous for three months. A task that he enjoys very much: Together, some live concerts are planned from the end of October until November 2024.

http://inzec.ch/live/
https://marcorepetto.bandcamp.com/

VÍZ

Solo project of Hungarian Transylvanian vocalist, composer, performer and artist Réka Csiszér. A prolific artist active in numerous multidisciplinary projects and collaborations, Csiszér aims to create conceptual, audio-visual works steeped in science fiction and avant-garde experimentations.

Inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky’s idea of »psicomagia«, the conceptual debut work ‘Veils’ was constructed as an elegiac body horror soundtrack in seven stages, dealing with themes of duality, unreality, the corporeal, language, self & identity, and the pursuit of eastern european ancestral provenance. Vocal fragments of Csiszér and her grandmother are intricately woven with iridescent drones, field recordings, modulated acoustic elements and analog synthesis, creating an eerie, meditative vision; an ethereal broadcast from some haunted communication facility.

https://www.instagram.com/____v___i____z___
https://v-i-z.xyz/

Field of pikes (CH)

Anton Ponomarev (saxophone, elctronics) works mostly, but not only, in the field of experimental and extreme music genres: punk-jazz, free improvisation, jazz-core, noise, power electronics, drone, etc.

His core bands are: P/O Massacre, Catatonic Leisure (alone / duo), Teufelskeller, Dodsdromen, Radiant Haze, Augenblick, Sanscreed kanon, Speedball trio, Brom. He also performs with Pussy Riot (Riot Days show) and he is collaborating with musicians from all over the world (Merzbow, Alex Buess, Guillaume Cazalet, Violeta Garcia, Tim Dahl, Marc Urselli, Lasse Marhaug, Ryosuke Kiyasu, Toshinori Kondo, Balazs Pandi, Paal Nilssen-Love, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Peter Ole Jorgensen, Sainkho Namtchylak, and many others).

Field of pikes - another solo project of Anton Ponomarev where he mostly plays on computer sometimes taking saxophone and exploring weird fields of DJ-ing.

An invitation to witness the convergence of chaos and intricate engineering, where the unpredictable dance of frequencies collides with deliberate sonic architecture. Imagine being swept away by the erratic beats of a rebellious heartbeat, only to be expertly reconstructed into a symphony of organized pandemonium. Step into the realm where sound is not just heard but felt, where chaos is not feared but embraced!

https://ponomarev.bandcamp.com