Haploid’s melancholic and saturnine piano-driven Art-Pop is created by vocalist Chris Donovan and pianist Tom Seth. Formed in 2003 in Southern Switzerland, the then 4-headed band that included guitarist Reydana/DaanaGreen and drummer Patricia Potter immediately started their journey to discover their musical language by creating their own original music, their inspirations ranging from Pink Floyd to Coldplay, from Ligeti to Blackfield, from Tori Amos to Radiohead.
The group debuted in 2008 with their self-released EP “Stone”, recorded with engineers Bernie Staub at Avalon Music Studio (Berg, Switzerland) and Dom Torche & Bertrand Siffert at Relief Studio (Belfaux, Switzerland).
Between 2009 and 2010 the band rehearsed for performances. Patricia Potter left the band. As a new drummer, Corrado Mondada joined the band. After a first performance, a tragic event in spring 2011 shook the band that de facto dissolved itself.
Twelve years later, Tom and Chris joined again to re-edit, re-mix and re-master some of the songs from their first album. In July 2024 they went to the renowned Massive Arts Studio in Milan and refreshed the original songs with the help of sound engineer Niccolò Caldarini and mastering specialist Alberto Cutolo.
In 2025 they recorded a triptych of new songs.
Haploid’s ambition is to create songs that are like allegorical movies, like aural landscapes: dreams of passion, love, fear or madness painted with the achromatic colours of oblivion.
