In the work of Swiss artist Andrina Bollinger, avant-pop, jazz, poetry, and performance art collapse into a multisensory maze. Initially trained in jazz but unbound by genre, her music is rich with nuance – a sonic memoir woven from fragmented narratives, field recordings, and emotionally textured topographies.
Andrina’s musical journey began at the age of two, when she learned to sing her way through Romansh songbooks with ease. To this day, she draws inspiration from her Engadin roots – both visually and lyrically. When asked about her music, she compares it to Not Vital’s Castle of Tarasp: a living sculpture, a portal into space layered with meaning and earthy humour. Musically, her work shares a kinship with artists like Julia Holter, Samora Pinderhughes, Björk, and L’Rain – where genre boundaries dissolve, and sound, the art of storytelling, performance, and visual art merge into a singular experience. In her live shows, she pulls the audience into something of a lucid dream, maneuvering between instruments and pushing her band into moments of charged instability. It’s an orchestrated, improvisatory free fall.
To date, Andrina has released a full-length album titled “Secret Seed” (2022), which explores the idea of mapping inner landscapes through poetic abstraction, followed by the EP “Pleasure & Pain” (2023), a project centered on emotional duality. She has been invited to perform at some of Europe’s most prestigious festivals, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, Café de la Danse in Paris, M4Music Festival in Zurich, Cully Jazz Festival, and Winterthurer Musikfestwochen. Beyond her solo work, the singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist is active in several cross-disciplinary pursuits and is often invited to work as a musical director and sound designer for theatre and film.
As she prepares her second record “Island of Way Back”, set for release in spring 2026 on Mouthwatering Records, Bollinger continues to delve even deeper into her interdisciplinary exploration, further dissolving the line between live music, visual and performance art.
