If one looks back into the music cosmos of Christy Doran, one finds a guitarist who has long juggled rock-jazz with modern noise variations, who found his own stylistic contribution between jazz, rock, modern classical music and folk music very early, and who has never seen a contradiction between John McLaughlin’s elegance and Sonny Sharrock’s earthiness.

Christy Doran...el. guitar/composition

Patricia Draeger...accordion

Christian Weber...double bass

Lionel Friedli...drums & percussion

Christy Doran is no unknown. He has written Swiss music history with OM (Studer, Leimgruber, Burri), two different Hendrix projects

(Bates, Minton, Ali, Studer, Stucky, Clarke, Tacuma), with the group NEW BAG and many recordings with international greats. His style feeds from the most varying cultures and styles, but there is always a good portion of groove as a basis. Exotic and uneven beats are presented as naturally as are straight fourths from the province of pop music. The rhythm group (Weber/Friedli) – among the best of what the young Swiss scene has to offer at the moment – takes on every direction Doran desires, of difficult beats and light sound games, all with rhythmic sophistication. The trademark of Doran’s music remains the infinite combination of colors, nuances and rhythmic structures of the melody lines, with which Doran ventures into uncharted musical territory again and again. With their rich expressive sound, Patricia Draeger’s accordion vocals combine one to one with Christy Doran’s unmistakable guitar, driving straight forward.

 

Patricia Draeger is well known in Switzerland in various groupings and projects. Christy got to know her in Tien Shan-Express with Heiri Kaenzig in Barcelona. She has studied classical music, but enjoys improvising very much. 

Born in Zug/CH she studied flute with Konrad Klemm in Winterthur and also with Verena Bosshart in Biel with emphasis on contemporary music. 1995 diploma with honour. Further studies with Ann La Berge in Amsterdam und Ack van Royen in Den Haag. Since 1992 she plays accordion and is musical director of various theatre productions. She played with Claudio Puntin, Heiri Känzig, Hans Kennel, Michel Matthieu, Albin Brun, a.o. and has contributed to many recordings.

Christian Weber is very well known in the scene. He is very open musically and very competent in Impro/Jazz/Avantgarde music.

Lionel Friedli is one of Doran’s favorite drummers, whom he has known since the Musikhochschule in Lucerne, where Friedli studied. In the meantime both have played together in different bands (New Bag, Heiri Kaenzig’s “Acoustic Strings”, Martin Baumgartner’s „Spilhuus“). Lionel Friedli is one of the highly demanded young Swiss drummers.