Dave Gisler enjoys an excellent reputation as an idiosyncratic architect of sound on the electric guitar. With the trio, he presents a dazzling array of possibilities for genre-bending music that is at home in jazz, but also draws on rock, punk and noise.
Dave Gisler guitar, Lionel Friedli drums, Raffaele Bossard double bass
The trio's first recording, "Rabbits on the Run," was released in 2018 on Intakt Records. It laid the track for a musical departure that on the one hand intensified the trio and on the otherhand also expanded it to a quartet or quintet.
Since 2019 Dave Gisler, Raffaele Bossard and Lionel Friedli where repeatedly on tour with the US trumpeter jaimie branch. The raw trio sound merges with the lyrical and expressive attacks of the idiosyncratic trumpeter to create atmospherically dense music. 2020 saw the release of the live album "Zurich Concert" (Intakt Records), which was recorded with jaimie branch as a guest musician at the unerhört! Festival.
In march 2022 followed the album "See You Out There" with Jaimie Branch and the US saxophonist David Murray. The musical giant continues to make the music shine. Cool navigated the quintet between punky energy, sixties free aesthetic, massive rock accents and the sound zones of modern jazz.
Now they are on the road again, with their latest album in their luggage and new musical material. Whether in a trio, in a quartet with David Murray or Tony Malaby: Dave Gisler's sound is made for intense live experiences. "Duck down, here are fortune cookie crumbs flying through the air," wrote Rigobert Dittmann and Filipe Freitas wrote "a squall of musical intensity and puissant improvisation."
