experimental

Valve is the name of several artists. 1) Partnership from Finland.
2) Brazil rock band 1) a partnership of Sami M

Jürg Frey (b. 1953 in Aarau, Switzerland) studied in Zurich and Geneva where he graduated with a concert diploma in clarinet under Thomas Friedli.
He studied composition under Urs Peter Schneider in Bern and trained in Basel as a teacher of the Alexander Technique.
Frey continues to perform as a clarinetist at numerous premieres and world premieres. He was co-founder of the Lenzburg Music Forum, and has been artistic director of the Aarau concert series 'Moments Musicaux' for more than ten years.

Eric Chenaux's songs wind up in all kinds of places and shape-shift from tender jazz standards to bossa to fried folk to meaninglessly romantic balladry. Sometimes these same songs are re-baked as modal tunes for guitar, banjo, drums, swinging speakers and wah-wah pedals (as they appear on Dull Lights) and become near-covers of themselves. In the 1980’s and 1990’s Chenaux played rhythmically demented half-riffs with hoary post-punk band Phleg Camp and later wrote songs with the guitar duo Lifelikeweeds.

Idle Jack & the Big Sleep truely represents a culmination of varied and diverse musical styles and interests. This is particularly evident in the number of pidgeon holes that have been stuffed into lately by audience and reviewer alike. If you threw all of these comparisons together, you would probably come across an amalgam of Captain Beefheart, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Muse(!?), Mogwai, The Doors(!!!) and a couple of others that can't be remembered (possibly because of their absurdity!).