Melodyinfonie

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Under the pseudonym Melodiesinfonie, Swiss musician Kevin Wettstein has been releasing music continuously for eight years – in addition to numerous EPs, he has also released albums – and performing live.

Born in 1993 in Bülach, Switzerland, Melodiesinfonie came into contact with his father's impressive collection of funk, jazz and soul records at an early age and started playing the drums at the age of 12, which sparked a fascination for all kinds of rhythms and grooves. Inspired by the productions of J Dilla, Pete Rocks and Mndsgn, he started working intensively with sampling and electronic sound generation at the age of 17, released his first music pieces and just a year later – at the age of 18 – released two of his first EPs on the Los Angeles-based label Soulection. At the same time, he founded Boyoom Connective, a collective that is a label, concert organizer and exchange platform for artists. His first two albums “Friede Freude” and “Be Thankful” were released in 2014 and 2016, and a year later the busy man from Zurich travelled to Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban to give lectures and workshops and collaborate with local artists. In 2017 and 2018 he played as an opening act for Yussef Kamaal and at the M4Music Festival in Zurich.

After more than 150 concerts as Melodiesinfonie, he will tour Europe in 2019 with his new album “A Jourmey To You” and a new band. With his third album “A Journey To You” (April 26, 2019, Jakarta Records) he is nevertheless breaking new ground. While his previous releases, which appeared on labels such as Soulection and Melting Pot Music and were very successful in the US, were still labeled as “hiphop/beatmaker”, Melodiesinfonie's latest work distances itself from this and enters jazzy, soulful spheres. Long improvisations and playful instrumental passages become important stylistic devices and allow the listener to immerse themselves in a sound world that sounds more like a recorded West Coast band than a Swiss home studio.

This sound aspect can also be experienced on tour: Melodiesinfonie is touring for the first time with a four-piece band, with the master himself on his traditional instrument, the drum set. Here, the freedom of the 12 album tracks is further utilized and space is created for longer improvisations. The constant search for new ideas, approaches and concepts, both for music and for life in general, is not just a means to an end, but the worthy goal of the young musician. Despite the musical reorientation, there is a common thread running through the music of Melodiesinfonie: They are songs that release positive things in the listener and bring people together. “Spread Love”, as hackneyed and often abused as this slogan may be in 2019, it still applies to Melodiesinfonie and its music. Man as a minuscule particle of an all-encompassing absolute reality that exists outside of space and time; music is the spiritual language that brings the individual into contact with this superhuman reality, according to the profound basic idea of Melodiesinfonie. Musically and philosophically much more than “your average beatmaker”.

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