Nik Bartsch's Ronin China Tour

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In Oct., Nik Bartsch's Ronin will start their China tour in various cities.

With the zen-funk quartet RONIN founded in 2001, Zurich composer and pianist Nik Bärtsch proceeds with the work on his RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC, together with Kaspar Rast (drums), Sha (bass- and contrabass clarinet, alto sax) and Thomy Jordi (bass, replaced Björn Meyer in 2011. Percussionist Andi Pupato was a band member 2002-2012. Their music consistently follows the same aesthetic vision under various instrumental guises: creating the maximum effect by minimal means.

In addition to its tours and performances, for ten years Ronin has held a concert every Monday evening at its own club in Zurich - since 2009 at the club EXIL cofounded by Nik Bärtsch. This longterm experiment encourages and demands constant musical evolution – the result of interaction, attentive listening, and critical, even ironic musical and verbal dialogue. On these Mondays the musicians eat and play together. In this way Ronin has, over the years, independently created its own phraseology and proceeded blithely but consistently on its own path as a socio-musical organism.