The AMR is a prominent jazz club located in the heart of Geneva’s vibrant Pâquis district. For the past half-century, this dynamic association has been dedicated to promoting jazz and improvised music, catering to a diverse and intergenerational audience. Each year, the AMR schedules an impressive roster of over 200 concerts, alongside the organization of two annual festivals, as well as many workshops and classes.
The Icelandic quartet ADHD presents their tenth album, ADHD 10, continuing an exploration between jazz, ambient, rock and folk. Simon Frith describes it as “a desolate quietude… Nordic, neither urban jazz nor rural folk.” Their immersive, sensory sound transcends genres, offering an intense concert blending new material with signature pieces. The group—Óskar Guðjónsson (saxophones), Ómar Guðjónsson (guitar, pedal steel, bass), Tómas Jónsson (piano, keyboards) and Magnús Trygvason Eliassen (drums)—creates spacious, contemplative textures that evolve into powerful, lyrical climaxes.
Formed in 2011 by Hiroshi Funato and Jean-Jacques Pedretti, Neko is a duo that communicates without a shared tongue, weaving free, emotional and joyful instrumental dialogues that can turn gently aggressive. Recover delivers raw, physical music—an underground summons to archaic forces, a wild exorcism that re-covers lost memory through the saturated magma of contemporary sound. This double bill features an expanded lineup across reed, brass, bass and drums and appears within the JazzContreBand programme.
Presented in collaboration with the EJMA Live Foundation’s On Stage program, this double concert pairs pianist-composer Nikolas Katrantzis’s NK36 project with the Geneva-based VS Quartet. Katrantzis’s music is built on organic grooves and introspective motifs, with Nikolas (piano) supported by Sara El Hachimi (alto sax), Nathan Triquet (drums), Emiel Verneert (trumpet) and James Iwa (electric bass). VS Quartet, led by guitarist Owen Duveau, blends composed material and open improvisation, favouring interplay, groove and exploratory textures that invite attentive listening.
Kashi, conceived by choreographer Gauri Priscilla Brülhart to mark twenty years of her career, is a music-and-dance creation rooted in the Banarasi kathak tradition. Inspired by the luminous city of Banaras/Varanasi and the cult of Shiva, the performance blends rhythmic virtuosity, improvisation, narrative gesture and devotional intensity. A company of musicians and dancers trained with masters of the Banaras lineage explores the interplay between tala, melody and footwork. Produced by Sangeet Swiss with support from the State of Fribourg and the Ateliers d’ethnomusicologie.
Led by pianist Joanna Duda, the trio with Jort Terwijn (double bass) and Michal Bryndal (drums) presents music from Delighted (Byrd Out, Oct. 2025). The program balances melodic clarity and meditative atmosphere with lively rhythmic invention: rhythm becomes a second voice, engaging in a dialogue with the piano’s lines. The ensemble navigates between driving energy and reflective space, using subtle dynamics and texture to shape an intimate, immersive sonic journey.
Initiated by Eve Risser, Ensemble Ensemble brings together five musicians whose roots in Romania, Norway, Alsace and the Dordogne fold folk fragments into an organic sound. Mari Kvien Brunvoll (vocals, electronics), George Dumitriu (violin, viola), Kim Myhr (guitar), Toma Gouband (drums) and Eve Risser (piano, flute, vocals) weave elemental textures where improvisation meets delicate composition. The music unfolds like a map of shared memory, intimate and exploratory, shifting between lyricism and raw rhythmic pulse.
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