Oli Kuster

Oli Kuster — a Bern-based pianist, keyboardist and composer — has realised a wide range of projects at the intersection of jazz and electronic music. His first recorded album was The Music of Herbie Nichols, made with Jürg Bucher. From 2001 to 2004 he was a member of Züri West. In 2004 he founded the electro-pop duo Pola with Marcel Blatti. With his band Menschmaschine Kuster offered jazz-tinged interpretations of Kraftwerk songs in 2011. He has composed music for film and released three albums as leader of the Oli Kuster Kombo, and appears on X99, the trio album by Gilbert Paeffgen. In 2015 Oliver Kuster and Patric Marino created an electro-poetry project under the name The Astronauts. His interest in synthesisers also surfaces in the pop project AEIOU. In his most recent project, OKRA, he works with Robert Aeberhard. Since the summer of 2017 Oli has been performing regularly again with Züri West.

Bern, Switzerland