Portrait
Since 2001, the three young musicians from Zurich, Switzerland capture their audience and guide them into sound worlds yet undreamt of.
With their instruments as are accordion, clarinet, bass clarinet and drums, Zugluft absorb elements from European folk music, jazz and pop and develop it into an instrumental music that both surprises and affects.
The trio plays at wild parties, weddings and funerals, in jazz clubs as well as concert halls.
- The songs on their new CD «Bb« perfectly reflects this variety.

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Zugluft perform their own, self-composed music.
At the beginning of their pieces normally stands a small composed fragment, a melody, a groove or a harmony. Through improvisation, Zugluft develops from these elements sound collages with surprising idioms and thus produces tendencies, by which the listener is being dragged along emotionally.
An intelligent music, which is to be discovered time and again, without being academically bulky. It invites to both dancing and relaxed listening-in. From concert to concert, Zugluft builds on the pieces, further improvises and refines them. The sound collage is never finished.

Stylistically, there are resemblances of new folk, trans European experimental folk music, comic music, polka, contemporary klezmer and much more.
In brief: Zugluft plays the traditional European music of the 21st century.
Look, see and... enjoy «Bb«

Bruno Strüby, clarinet and bass clarinet
was born in 1973 as a musician.
Beside the baby rattle he learned further instruments, and became a convinced multi-instrumentalist. Meanwhile, his instrument collection consists of approximately.. 3300 strings and 1550 kg.
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Jonas Guggenheim, accordion
was to make his debut as a pianist in 1982 at the age of four years in St.Gallen, Switzerland. With his beautiful cousin, he played "for Eliese" for four hands.
The accordion promised further perspectives, so he went into it in such an easily manner that he soon impressed family and neighbours. In the Zurich conservatory, he made an important contribution to the exhilaration of his fellow students.
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Philip Lenzlinger, drums
born 1972 in Zurich, played an important role in various blues bands, rock troops, and pop covergroups: "I was a very popular luggage porter."
He completed his autodidactically learned and impacted skill set in several workshops.
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