BRIEF

by Adriano Koch from Lausanne, Switzerland

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It’s surprising to learn that at just 21 years old, Koch is already standing up against his much older and more experienced peers within the neo-classical and widescreen electronic musical space, to include acts as Olafur Arnalds, Ludovico Einaudi, Ulrich Schnauss, and Jon Hopkins.

Koch creates art without borders or constraints, blending styles and genres, taking inspiration from classical music, jazz, electronica and Middle Eastern music. Listening to artists from diverse cultures and backgrounds such as Tigran Hamasyan, Avishai Cohen, Erik Satie, Shai Maestro, Jon Hopkins or Bon Iver has played an important influence on Adriano’s music and has allowed him to blend their colours to his vocabulary.

Mixing the traditional acoustic piano with electronic instruments on stage, allowing him to create a rich and visual performance, to free himself from the restrictive labels of classical music, and to open up to a wider audience, he manages to gather together on the same stage, audiences who would not usually meet: classical music, jazz, and electronic music listeners.
Speaking about the new video, Koch explains,

“Brief is a song about the ephemeral aspect of existing. It lies between fright, hysteria and the idea of being submerged by realizing how creepy it is to live / to be / to feel. It’s also about death and birth. I produced the music and the video clip because I like to keep the directive line on the artistic aspect. In my opinion it helps to emphasize the artistic meaning of a song, not only on the musical aspect.”

About Adriano Koch

Music has been a part of Adriano’s life since infancy. After nine years of jazz piano studies at the School for Jazz and Current Music (EJMA) in Lausanne, Switzerland, he decided to not continue his schooling at the age of seventeen in order to dedicate himself fully to the development of his craft.

Now aged twenty-one, Adriano Koch has released two albums and has been awarded with the OSR CONTEST 2018 (Orche