Taking contemporary jazz and cutting it to pieces with a techno-indus blade, math rock scalpel, overlapping tempos and rhythmical breaks gleaned from Meshuggah, one foot in Area 51, the other in the underground passageways of Stranger Things, meet QONIAK.
Photo ©Noé Cauderay
NEWS
We are proud to be the live music band of the amazing trapeze show "GOGO HOME Project". Check them out!
Our release "MUTATIO" is out on the amazing label Humus Records. Great music, awesome people. Proud and honoured to be part of the family.
NEXT SHOWS
| Biel/Bienne, Joyful Noise Labor, la Voirie |
SELECTED PAST CONCERTS
2026 | |
| Grand-Combe (FR), 2e convention internationale de trapèze volant (w/ the GOGO HOME Project) | |
| Hannover (DE), Kleinen Fest @ Herrenhäuser Gärten (w/ the GOGO HOME Project) | |
| Rastatt (DE), Tête à Tête Festival (w/ the GOGO HOME Project) | |
2025 | |
| Forchheim (DE), Zirkart Festival (w/ the GOGO HOME Project) | |
| Bienne, First Friday @ LitCafé | |
| Bienne, Micro Festival | |
| Bienne, Le Commerce | |
| Bienne, Le Singe | |
2024 | |
| Dresden (DE), Zirkustheater Festival (w/ the GOGO HOME Project) | |
2023 | |
| Chur, JazzChur @ Marsoel die Bar | |
| St-Gallen, Himmel Helvetia @ Helvetiastrasse | |
| La Chaux-de-Fonds, Bikini Test | |
| Frauenfeld, Generations Festival | |
| Vevey, l'Oriental | |
| Vitznau, Vitznauerhof | |
2022 | |
| Bienne, Café du Commerce | |
| Bienne, Carré Noir | |
| Bienne, La Barbarie | |
| Saignelégier, BFM | |
| Genève, AMR | |
| Sion, Point 11 | |
| Cully, Jazz Festival | |
| Bienne, Le Singe, Duo Festival | |
2021 | |
| Genève, AMR Festival @ Point Favre, Chêne-Bourg | |
| Yverdon, Amalgame (Oiseaux-Tempête support) | |
| Sonvilier, Toxoplasmose Festival | |
| Neuchâtel, Rikiki Festival | |
| Live radio broadcast, Live @ Couleur3 | |
2020 | |
| Bienne, Farel | |
| Bienne, Coupole, Bieler Music Days Festival | |
2017 | |
| Genève, Le Cabinet | |
| Gysenstein, Chäsi | |
| Baden, UNIVERSUS @ Badenfahrt 2017 | |
| Geneva, Festival les Athénéennes | |
| Bienne, Le Singe | |
| Bienne, Café du Commerce | |
| Bienne, Bieler Music Days | |
2016 | |
| Willisau, Willisau Jazz Festival, Late Spot | |
| Biel/Bienne, Pod'Ring Festival | |
April 25th - May 8th, Argentinian Tour feat. Franco Fontanarrosa | |
| Buenos Aires (AR), Workshop @ Doyo Estudio | |
| Campana (AR), Bisellia | |
| Caba (AR), Roseti Hall | |
| Rosario (AR), Biblioteca Argentina | |
| Santa Fe (AR), El Taller Casa de Arte | |
| Rafaela (AR), Centro Cultural Municiapal | |
| Rosario (AR), Workshop @ Bermuda Studio | |
| Junín (AR), El Salón | |
| La Plata (AR), La Mulata | |
| Caba (AR), Roseti Hall | |
| Schlagzeug @ Cully Jazz Festival | |
| Jazzwerkstatt Festival, Bern | |
2015 | |
| Zürich, Das Institut | |
June-July 2015, MuzEnergo Tour (RU) : | |
| Samara, DKZH | |
| Ufa, Concert Hall | |
| Satka, DK Stroitel | |
| Chelyabinsk, State Phirmonics (Prokofiev Hall) | |
| Yekaterinburg, as a part of EverJazz festival | |
| Tyumen, Philharmonic Hall | |
| Golyshmanovo, DK Yunost | |
| Omsk, Philharmonic Hall | |
| Kargat (Novosibirsk region), DK Gorkogo | |
| Chulym (Novosibirsk region), RDKD | |
| Kemerovo, KemGU Concert Hall | |
| Novosibirsk, Campus | |
| Barnaul, Altai Region Philharmonic Hall | |
| Berdsk (Novosibirsk region), GDK | |
| Tomsk, State University Culture Center | |
| Zurich, Schönegg Variété | |
| Bern, Sonarraum | |
MUTATIO
QONIAK's 2nd album
Recorded at Artefax Studios, Lausanne, by Antoine Etter
Mixed by David Odlum
Mastered by April Golden, Golden Mastering, Ventura California
All compositions by Vincent Membrez
Artwork by H1 Reber, Büro Destruct, Bern
©2020, Hummus Records, HUMM080
First a furious hard-hitting beat, metronomic and obstinate, biting and dislocating. Then one hell of a funky-technoide riff sets in, played on a vintage Moog. Having burnt some rubber, QONIAK can now let rip. And for Vincent Membrez (synth) and Lionel Friedli (drums), “letting rip” means acting like slightly nutty Siamese scientists in a secret lab, randomly turning knobs on a Pro-One 80’s keyboard to see what happens; taking contemporary jazz and cutting it to pieces with a techno-indus blade, math rock scalpel, overlapping tempos and rhythmical breaks gleaned from Meshuggah. With one foot in Area 51, the other in the underground passageways of Stranger Things, “we experiment flat out”, proclaim QONIAK! And desire does the rest.
SENTIENT BEINGS
QONIAK's debut album
Feat. Flo Stoffner, guit
& Joy Frempong, vocals
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Julien Fehlmann @ Studio Mécanique, La Chaux-de-Fonds
©2013, Everest Records, ER052
"Sentient Beings" is a yet unidentified object where the duo's crazy experimental avant-garde textures meets the beautiful and unexpected chants of Joy Frempong and the astral soundscapes guitar playing of Flo Stoffner. The quartet bypasses musical boundaries and take you to an intense trip to a parallel world where you might encounter both Yoda and Cpt. Spock under LSD, playing an unrestrained game of Pong.
