The four musicians met in the mountains of southern Switzerland in the village of Loco in 2021 and formed a folk band: Quartetto Loco. However, the musical backgrounds of all the musicians are so diverse that something new has quickly emerged in the short time since the band was founded. In their search for new folk standards, they ended up in the world of twelve-tone music. (Dodecaphony is a compositional technique that abandons conventional harmonies and instead plays with twelve notes that are only related to each other). What sounds somewhat theoretical becomes a firework display with the quartet's unbridled folky energy and joy of playing! .

The pieces by Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern, Ursula Mamlok and others suddenly sound like 21st century folk music. Original compositions that also play with the boundaries of tonality are mixed into the programme. On flutes, clarinets, trumpet, organetto, violin, cello and yodelling vocals, they create their own folky sound. Arnold Schönberg, the father of dodecaphony, claimed that in 50 years' time his music would be whistled in the streets like pop tunes. Quartetto Loco thinks the time has come to do just that. It's time for dodecafolk!

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Bo Wiget: cello, yodelling
Nicolo Bottasso: violin, octaviolin, trumpet
Oscar Antoli: clarinet, bass clar, kaval
Simone Bottasso: organetto, flute