+ 06.10.2025: ‘Musique d'avenir’ programme on RTS Espace 2, Archipelago and ‘Pairing’ for the Maulwerker ensemble [French]
+ 02.10 2025: Review of 'Archipelago' on RTS (Swiss Radio) by Anne Gillot [French]
+ 05.09 2025: Interview for 'Fifteen Questions', about solo work and improvisation
+ 05.09 2025: NEW SOLO ALBUM 'Archipelago'
Jonas Kocher is a virtuoso accordionist. His compositions are audacious, challenging, varied and full of energy. When listening to ‘Archipelago’, you can feel the uncompromising nature of his playing. Outstanding. radiohoerer
Kocher plays the accordion as an unpredictable sound generator with great precision and super-fast instincts. He weaves together elements as fragmented melodies, harmonic progressions, electronic-like sonorities, and hypnotic repetitions in a way that forces the attentive listener to rethink deep listening as a liberating act. Percorsi Musicali
You don’t just listen, you navigate, testing the currents, waiting for the next shore. And in a world where accordionists are too often sentenced to entertain in the background, Kocher insists on the opposite: here, the instrument sits front and center, uncompromising, elemental, slyly defiant. This is not music to sip wine to - it’s music that knocks the glass from your hand, then lets you hear the shards ring out on the floor. Chain D.L.K.
+ An article/analysis on my 2018 performative work HOME (Münstergasse 37) has been published in "Musicking Collective. Codierungen kollektiver Identität in der zeitgenössischen Musikpraxis der Schweiz und ihrer Nachbarländer". Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern, Bd. 17