A resurrection! Almost twenty years after their first album, Tuniq is back. Back then, the band wowed the music world with their fusion of jazz and electro and their collaboration with Nils Petter Molvær. The new songs sound more mature, darker and polyrhythmic. There are hints of cosmic jazz alongside echoing minimal reminiscences. The driving rhythm section of Stephan Häni (bass) and Simon Aebischer (drums) lays a krautrock foundation to hold up the complex sound patterns of Stephan Aerschmann (keyboards). From his first release, Tuniq has retained the consummate sense of melody and his organic electro-jazz beyond the cold sterility of computers.
Louis Riedo, Bad Bonn, 2024.
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Reviews:
“[The] tracks stir you up, don't leave you cold with their clever, sometimes edgy sounds and arrangements.”
Jazzthing, Sept./Oct. 2005, p. 105.
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“Tuniq play liquid gold, which nevertheless pours out of the speakers as if weightless.”
Melodie&Rhythmus, Aug./Sept. 2005, p.82.
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“They are painters without brushes, their debut - a soundtrack without a movie. Respect, respect!”
Gunther Matejka, Amazon.de editorial office, 2005.
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“Tuniq weave a web of cool grooves and sometimes extremely ambitious sounds.”
Willi Andersen, Stereoplay 10/2005, p. 144.
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“Despite the multitude of hidden sound tricks and gimmicks, the melodies of the electronic sound generators are by no means kitschy. Clear dosage of sounds and accentuated playing lead to a relaxed dance of jazz with pop. And when the Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer joins in with his spacy trumpet playing, a far-reaching bridge is created between Alpine peaks and Nordic fjords.”
Deutschlandradio Kultur “Jazzmagazin”, Aug. 20, 2005.
